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Creative Solutions for Tablets and the Common Core
Monday, August 12, 2013 Comment
The recent international conference of researchers on human-computer interaction CHI 2013 in Paris presented the opportunity to survey current trends in the so-called “learning sciences” and to assess new methodologies for computer-assisted education (In 2010, DMLcentral covered the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles here). One of the up-and-coming HCI innovators, PhD student Derek Lomas, presented twice at the CHI 2013 conference, describing his experiences both in K-12 classrooms in the U.S. and in digital literacy projects in India. Lomas agreed to an interview to discuss his experiences in PlayPower and PlayPower Labs, now based at Carnegie
