Seventh International School On Mind, Brain And Education

Program, 2013 July 30 - August 04

Science Education
in the Digital Era

Directors: Antonio M. Battro, Kurt W. Fischer and Diego Golombek
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani


PROGRAM 2013

TUESDAY 30 JULY

Registration and lodging
20.00: Dinner and reception at La Pineta (see map)

WEDNESDAY 31 JULY

Welcome
9.00 - 9.30 Antonio M. Battro and Kurt. W. Fischer
Innovation
Moderator: Antonio Battro
9.30 - 10.00 Kurt W. Fischer: The science of the individual
10.00 - 10.30 Hideaki Koizumi: Brain-science-based education to foster innovation
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
16.00 - 16.30 Deanna Kuhn: Scientific thinking: What develops and what needs to develop?
16.30 - 17.00 Juliana Porto: Scientists of the future program: getting started in neuroscience in Highschool in Brazil
17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 - 18.30 Discussions

THURSDAY 1 AUGUST

The digital environment
Moderator: Kurt W. Fischer
9.00 - 9.30 Tina Grotzer: Interactions between human cognitive architecture, the challenges of complex causal induction in Science learning, and the affordances of a digital world
9.30 - 10.00 Magela Fuzatti: Innovation and creativity with Plan Ceibal Uruguay technologies
10.00 - 10.30 Kazuhide Ito: The effects of indoor environmental quality on productivity
10.30 - 11.00 Chia Shen: Multi-touch tabletop visualization of life on Earth: Can large data, embodiment, and social play help advance science learning?
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Antonio M. Battro: The click option and the digital intelligence: the Tablet revolution
16.00 - 16.30 Beatrice Salviat: Digital technology in the training of teachers teaching science: veni, vidi, wiki
16.30 - 17.00 Wei Yu: Promoting Neuroeducation as a trans-disciplinary field
17.00 – 17.30 Vanessa Rodriguez: A qualitative study towards understanding the teaching brain
17.30 - 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 - 19.00 Discussions

FRIDAY 2 AUGUST

Free day: Optional visit to the historical places of Segesta and Selinunte

SATURDAY 3 AUGUST

New frontiers in teaching science
Moderator: Hideaki Koizumi
9.00 - 9.30 Yusuke Seki: Toward physiological understanding of Mind, Brain and Education
9.30 - 10.00 Yan-Mei Zhu: The understanding of the physics concept revealed by event-related potentials
10.00 - 10.30 Sho Sugawara: Praise facilitates the human skill formation
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 12.30 Discussions
Lunch
15.30 - 16.00 Katsumi Watanabe: Digitalization of education from a cognitive-Science perspective
16.00 - 16.30 Fritz Hahne: Building a modern science culture in Africa
16.30 - 17.00 John Higgins: A journalist’s quest to understand how teaching makes us human
17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break
17.30 - 18.30 Discussions
21.00: Farewell dinner

SUNDAY 4 AUGUST

Departure