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A New Moment in STEM Education Afforded by Advances in Spatial Computing

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, 126A

Learning experience: ISTEverse
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Presenters

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Anurupa Ganguly
CEO

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@Anurupa Ganguly
Anurupa Ganguly is the Founder & CEO of Prisms, a VR learning platform that teaches foundational secondary math and science concepts spatially and steeped in real-world contexts, before building up to symbolic notation. Anurupa began her career as a math & physics teacher and later served in leadership roles across the Boston Public Schools, NYC DOE, and Success Academies. She holds degrees in EECS from MIT, and an EdM from BU.
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Sharon Marcus

Session description

Learn how recent advances in spatial computing are democratizing access to experience and enabling us to scale how we've always wanted to teach core math and science, experientially, through relevant problems that mean something to our students.

Purpose & objective

- Identify barriers to learning math & science
- Explain immersive technology's role in education
- Implement spatial and immersive technologies in math & science curriculum

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Outline

- Discussing recent advances in spatial computing that are democratizing access to experience
- How immersive technologies is enabling us to scale how we've always wanted to teach core math and science
- Utilizing relevant problems that mean something to our students

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Supporting research

https://www.prismsvr.com

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Session specifications

Topic:
Augmented, mixed & virtual reality
Grade level:
6-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Chief technology officers/superintendents/school board members, Teachers, Technology coordinators/facilitators
Attendee devices:
Devices not needed
Subject area:
Math, Science
ISTE Standards:
For Educators:
Learner
  • Stay current with research that supports improved student learning outcomes, including findings from the learning sciences.
Designer
  • Explore and apply instructional design principles to create innovative digital learning environments that engage and support learning.
For Students:
Computational Thinker
  • Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them, and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
Disclosure:
The submitter of this session has been supported by a company whose product is being included in the session
Related exhibitors:
Prisms of Reality Inc.

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