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8 November, 2016
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Research Tuesdays: The Learning Code
Date/Time: Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Location: The Braggs lecture theatre, North Terrace campus
Cost: Free event - all welcome. Registration essential
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Big things are happening in education. With the nature of our workforce changing rapidly, so too is the task of preparing our children, and indeed ourselves, to succeed within it.
University of Adelaide computer-science education researchers are at the forefront of progress; using technology to better understand how we learn, and build more effective environments in which learning can take place.
This informative presentation will explore some of their most important current projects, including:
- personalised learning at scale--investigating how technology can best connect large learning communities while still enabling individually tailored education
- an open, online program helping Australia's educators learn how to teach computer science--essential if we're to empower future generations to create technology, not just use it
- diversity in STEM--why we need more, and our great opportunity to make it happen.
The presenter
Associate Professor Katrina Falkner heads the University of Adelaide's School of Computer Science, and directs the University's Computer Science Education Research Group. Katrina also chairs the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education Australasia, and is the 2016 Australian Council for Computers in Education and Australian Computer Society Leader of the Year.
Contact: Mrs Maria Mesa, Email: maria.mesa@adelaide.edu.au, Events and Sponsorships Coordinator, Business: 08 8313 6381
Game of Thrones! History, Medievalism and How It Might End
Date/Time: Tuesday, 8 November 2016, 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm
Location: Napier lecture theatre 102, level 1, Napier building, North Terrace campus
Cost: FREE - bookings essential
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Free public lecture with Professor Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford) - organised by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Professor Larrington will talk about watching and writing about HBO's Game of Thrones as a medieval scholar. She will also explain some of the medieval history and literature from which George R. R. Martin chiselled the building blocks for the construction of his imaginary world, and will undertake a little speculation on how the show might end.
Carolyne Larrington is Professor of Medieval European Literature at the University of Oxford, and teaches medieval English literature as a Fellow of St John's College. Among her many books, she is author of Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones (2015), published by I. B. Tauris.
Register for this free event here.
Contact: Jacquie Bennett, Email: jacquie.bennett@adelaide.edu.au, Program Administrator, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, The University of Adelaide, Business: +61 8 8313 2421
