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Subject: FW: Intel Research Seattle Seminar: Wed, Aug 27 |4:00 PM| Randy
Wang on The Digital StudyHall
Please forward to your talk distribution lists – Thank you!
On
behalf of Intel Research Seattle, we would be pleased to have you join us for
light refreshments and tea to meet our guest speaker and audience at 3:30pm.
Talk will start promptly at 4:00pm.. We look forward to
having you join us.
The Digital StudyHall
Randy Wang
MSR India
Wednesday, Aug 27, 2008 4:00 -
5:00pm
Abstract: Digital StudyHall
(DSH) seeks to improve education for poor children in slum and rural schools in
India. In a nutshell, think of its technical approach as the educational
equivalent of YouTube + Netflix + Kazaa.
We digitally record
live classes by the best grassroots teachers, transmit them on the
"Postmanet" (effected by DVDs sent in the postal system), collect
them in a large distributed database, and distribute
them on DVDs to
poor rural and slum schools. Education experts and teachers use the system to
explore pedagogical approaches involving local teachers actively
"mediating" the video lessons. By harvesting a "viral
phenomenon" of community participation, DSH aims to help train teachers
and deliver quality instruction to underprivileged children. The project
is a collaboration between computer scientists and education experts.
Intel Research Seattle Host: David
Wetherall
***** Intel
Research Seattle Seminar *****
All seminars will
take place at Intel Research Seattle (1100 NE 45th Street, 6th
Floor—at the corner of 45th & 11th in the
U-district).
Location
information is on our website at: http://www.seattle.intel-research.net/contact.php