Walter Bender - "Learning to Change the World" (Cambridge, MA)
by
Jeanne Rasata
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Published on
Oct 27, 2014 02:25 PM
Cambridge, MA - Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
| When |
Nov 05, 2014
from 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM |
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| Where | Cambridge, MA |
| Contact Name | willrico@gmail.com |
Join us as Walter Bender presents "Learning to Change the
World: How the Technology and Culture of Free Software Can Fuel a
Learning Revolution One Teacher and One Child at a Time."
Walter Bender is founder and executive director of Sugar Labs. Sugar Labs is a member project of the non-profit foundation Software Freedom Conservancy. Sugar Labs develops educational software used by more than three-million children in more than forty countries.
In 2006, Bender co-founded the One Laptop per Child, a non-profit association with Nicholas Negroponte and Seymour Papert. As director of the MIT Media Laboratory, Bender led a team of researchers in fields as varied as tangible media to affective computing to lifelong kindergarten. In 1992, Bender founded the MIT News in the Future consortium, which launched the era of digital news.
Registration or RSVP'ing, while not required, is always appreciated, as it will help us ensure there is enough space and food for all. You can RSVP by e-mailing Will Rico (willrico@gmail.com).
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