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Date: 15 May 2024
Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Duration: 1 hour
Name: Dr. Catalina Laserna
Email: laserna@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://sites.harvard.edu/laserna/
Brief bio: As a social anthropologist with advanced degrees in cognitive and development psychology, Dr. Catalina Laserna takes a socio-cultural perspective on how learning happens in individuals, groups, and institutions. After completing a research fellowship at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she most recently worked as Senior Fellow at HarvardX. Before that she conducted policy-oriented research on innovations for distance education at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education. At the Harvard Extension School, she conceived and directed the Masters of Liberal Arts in Technologies of Education. Over the past decades, Dr. Laserna has taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Harvard Summer and Extension Schools, and at Harvard's Department of Social Anthropology. She previously worked as a Development Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), where she advised the ministries of education in El Salvador, Paraguay and Colombia on strategies for infusing information technologies to advance national educational reform. She was also a research scientist at Bolt, Beranek and Newman, where she worked on a variety of projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
The transition from storytelling around the fire to social media interactions signifies a shift from oral to literate to cyber societies, reflecting a fundamental change in human consciousness. The concept of "cybercy" is introduced to describe the complex skills needed to navigate the digital media landscape, suggesting that "computer literacy" is an inadequate term. This evolution is seen as part of a "trialectic" relationship that includes oral and literate traditions, highlighting the interdependence of different communication modes in the digital age.
An understanding of modes and means of communication.
A detailed explanation of the workshop's intended outcomes and the specific goals for participants.
Educators who are interested in understanding the transformations that have occurred as we move toward digital societies.
Lecture-style presentation with group discussion around the participants’ experience with different media.
Provide strategies that educators can use in their own teaching.
Act quickly, as only 30 seats are available for in-person attendance at this workshop.