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MIT CMS.595 Learning, Media, and Technology, Spring 2024
Instructor: Justin Reich

Uploaded 16-09-25

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This discussion explores how the shift in the job market encourages education systems to prioritize critical thinking, creativity, and complex problem-solving. While AI can assist in some areas of assessment, it struggles with capturing the nuances of good writing, persuasive communication, and emotional intelligence. Ultimately, while AI will enhance efficiency in routine tasks, human judgment and creativity will continue to be essential, particularly in areas requiring nuanced decision-making and contextual insight.

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Most of the students in Professor Dennis McLaughlin’s course 1.74 Land, Water, Food, and Climate come to it with established opinions on some very controversial topics: whether GMOs are safe, whether climate change is real (and really human-induced), whether organic agriculture is preferable to conventional agriculture, and whether it’s better for land to be worked by individual farmers or by larger corporations. Dealing with topics like these in an introductory graduate-level class can be challenging. You have to train students to read the scientific literature so that they can evaluate the facts on both sides of an issue. But you also have to strike a balance between those concrete facts and the intangible social values that enter into debates on sensitive topics. In this episode, Professor McLaughlin describes his approach to those two challenges in teaching 1.74; he also explains how a diversity of backgrounds among the students in the class enriches class discussion, and he describes what he sees as the teacher’s role: to adjust and when necessary reframe the terms of discussion, while still allowing students the freedom to explore the ramifications of their ideas.

Uploaded 12-01-22

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The MIT Climate Portal
https://climate.mit.edu

Connect with Curt Newton at LinkedIn or Twitter
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curt-newton-309266/
https://twitter.com/qwertnewto


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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010
Instructors: Philip B. Tan, Jason Begy

Uploaded 16-09-25

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This lecture reviews the concepts of information flow and uncertainty, analyzing well-known games in these terms. Examples include Scrabble, Go Fish, Mario Kart, Monopoly, chess, poker, War, and Settlers of Catan. Next, students consider feedback loops.

Related Resources:
[CGD] Chapters 7 and 8
[CGD] = Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber. Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers. Boston, MA: Charles River Media/Course Technology, 2009. ISBN: 9781584505808.

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A Vision of Linear Algebra
Instructor: Gilbert Strang
View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/2020-vision
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Uploaded 20-01-22

This new video computes the nullspace of any matrix A. The equation Ax = 0 is reduced to row echelon form Rx = 0. Then all solution vectors are combinations of "special solutions.” We understand the pieces of R from the factorization A = CR.

See also Lecture 7 from 18.06 Linear Algebra for more on this topic at https://ocw.mit.edu/1806videoslec7/

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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010
Instructors: Philip B. Tan, Jason Begy

Uploaded 16-09-25

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This lecture begins by exploring what a game is (and isn't) and defining the terms "mechanic" and "dynamic". Designers identify the core mechanic and dynamic of a game to help guide iterative playtesting and optimization.

Related Resources:
[CGD] Chapter 1.
[CGD] = Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber. Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers. Boston, MA: Charles River Media/Course Technology, 2009. ISBN: 9781584505808.
Zimmerman, Eric. "Play as Research: The Iterative Design Process." July 8, 2003.

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When computer science was in its infancy, programmers quickly realized that though computers are astonishingly powerful tools, the results they achieve are only as good as the data you feed into them. (This principle was quickly formalized as GIGO: “Garbage In, Garbage Out.”) What was true in the era of the UNIVAC has proved still to be true in the era of machine learning: among other well-publicized AI fiascos, chatbots that have interacted with bigots have learned to spew racist invective, while facial-recognition software trained solely on images of white people sometimes fails to recognize people of color as human. In this episode, we meet Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and Prof. Jacob Andreas and Harini Suresh of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 2021, D’Ignazio, Andreas, and Suresh collaborated as part of the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing initiative from the Schwartzman College of Computing in a project to teach computer science students in 6.864 Natural Language Processing to recognize how deep learning systems can replicate and magnify the biases inherent in the data sets that are used to train them.

Uploaded 26-01-22

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Professor Andreas’s faculty page
https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/jacob-andreas

Harini Suresh’s personal website
http://harinisuresh.com

Desmond Patton’s paper on analysis of communications on Twitter
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/326834185.pdf

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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010
Instructors: Philip B. Tan, Jason Begy

Uploaded 16-09-25

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Today's reading analyzes user motivation along two axes: interest in the world vs. fellow players, gaining knowledge vs. proficiency. Students discuss the utility of this taxonomy, how games encourage these interactions, and come up with their own frames.

Related Resources:
[CGD] Chapter 11
[CGD] = Brathwaite, Brenda, and Ian Schreiber. Challenges for Game Designers: Non-Digital Exercises for Video Game Designers. Boston, MA: Charles River Media/Course Technology, 2009. ISBN: 9781584505808.
Bartle, Richard. "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs." April 1996.

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MIT 11.382 Water Diplomacy, Spring 2021
Instructor: Prof. Shafiqul Islam, Dr. Animesh Gain, Prof. Lawrence Susskind, and MIT students
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Uploaded 03-02-22

This video presents a guest lecture on the conditions that are necessary for negotiating and ratifying new international agreements on management of water resources.

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MIT CMS.608 Game Design, Fall 2010
Instructors: Philip B. Tan, Jason Begy

Uploaded 16-09-25

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To build a good simulation, identify relevant features in the source and assumptions in the resulting model. Students explore the meaning of games' choices about what to include, simplify, and abstract, and generate ideas for their next assignment.

Related Resources:
Starr, Paul. "Seductions of Sim; Policy as a Simulation Game." The American Prospect, March 21, 1994.

Credits:
Content © the respective copyright holders, all rights reserved, excluded from our Creative Commons license. For more information, see http://ocw.mit.edu/fairuse.
Audio from September 12. Newsgaming.com, 2003.
http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
Audio from Every day the same dream. Molleindustria/Jesse Stiles, 2009.
http://www.molleindustria.org/everydaythesamedream/everydaythesamedream.html
Audio from Super Chick Sisters. PETA, 2007.
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/superchicksisters/index.asp

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MIT 11.382 Water Diplomacy, Spring 2021
Instructor: Gemma Holt, Dr. Animesh Gain, Prof. Lawrence Susskind, and MIT students
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Uploaded 03-02-22

This is a video of a student presentation on the agreement between the United States and Canada on the management of the water in the Columbia River Basin.

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