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Student
BLOSSOMS Contest During MIT's IAP
 During
MIT's Independent activities Period (IAP) in January,
LINC will sponsor a contest for graduate and undergraduate
students to create BLOSSOMS video modules. Two winning
designs will be videotaped and included in the on-line
repository of BLOSSOMS videos.
IAP….
YOUR'VE GOT THE POWER!
The power to encourage
young people worldwide!
The power to change
their lives!
The power to inspire
a love of science, math and engineering!
Be an integral part
of an MIT educational initiative aimed at high school
students worldwide.
The project is BLOSSOMS
(Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math
Studies), developing a free repository of science
and math interactive video modules for high school students,
initially seeded by MIT’ers and educators in Jordan
and Pakistan. BLOSSOMS aims to enhance critical-thinking
in high school students and to inspire them in science,
math and engineering.
During IAP, we are
sponsoring a contest for MIT students (undergraduate
and graduate) to create BLOSSOMS video modules. Two
winning designs will be videotaped and included in the
on-line repository of BLOSSOMS videos. Please visit
http://linc.mit.edu/iapcontest/
or contact BLOSSOMS Project Manager Liz Murray (emurray@mit.edu)
or Alison Hearn (hearn@mit.edu)
for information.
Schedule:
Save these dates!
The contest will take place during the first two weeks
of IAP.
There will be an
initial meeting for all participants on Monday,
January 5, 2009, room 1-390, 12 to 2 pm during
which the BLOSSOMS initiative and contest will be described.
The process is to
prepare a one-page proposal of your ideas for an interactive
video module. The proposals are due by the second meeting,
Monday, January 12, 2009, room 1-390, 12 to
2 pm. Finalists will be decided and announced
by email within 24 hours of the second meeting.
The finalists will
then prepare and rehearse a proto-script to be performed
at the third meeting, on Friday, January 16,
2009, room 1-390, 12 to 2 pm. All participants
are invited to attend and enjoy a reception celebration
afterwards.
The two winning
scripts will be videotaped and produced during February
2009. BLOSSOMS follows a blended learning approach,
allowing the in-class teacher to alternate structured
video segments with active in-class learning. This pedagogical
approach enhances and leverages the role of the classroom
teacher while at the same time introducing a less threatening
but powerful technological teaching aide. So, your video
— should you choose to enter — must be an
alternating sequence of video segments, with the in-class
teacher (whom you will never meet) taking control of
her class between segments. Have fun thinking about
this contest! We hope you enter.
Downloads
BLOSSOMS Pedagogy here
(.doc)
BLOSSOMS Facts here (.pdf)
Contest Poster to forward and distribute here
(.pdf)
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