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New Media Lab

THE NEW MEDIA LAB (NML) assists City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to create multimedia projects based on their own scholarly research. Our goal is to integrate new media into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. The NML is committed to a vision of new technology based on open access to ideas, tools, and resources.

With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Old York Library Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.

Located in room 7388.01 at the CUNY Graduate Center and run under the auspices of the Center for Media and Learning / American Social History Project, NML researchers:

work across academic disciplines to produce scholarly digital media projects;

analyze Internet usage in the educational, social, and commercial sectors;

construct 3-D environments that explore ways of visualizing the arts, humanities, and sciences

digitally archive and analyze a wide range of data
participate in public programs that address the critical intersection of knowledge and technology

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  • Talk 12/9 @ the GC: \"Teaching Philosophy & Analytical Reasoning w/ Argument Viz\"

    Posted by Luke Waltzer (he/him) on December 5, 2016 at 10:19 am

    <strong>\"Teaching Philosophy and Analytical Reasoning with Argument Visualization.”</strong>
    Simon Cullen (Princeton)
    December 9, 3-4:30pm, Room 5200

    Many students — even bright students at top research universities — have not developed their analytical reasoning abilities to the level widely presupposed by college-level curricula. They struggle to engage with argumentative prose, and often find writing such prose extremely difficult. In this hands-on session, I present experimental evidence that suggests training students in a technique for visualizing the logical structures of arguments can lead to large and long-lasting improvements in their logical reasoning ability. You will learn what argument visualization is, and how it can be used to help your students develop these crucial analytical skills within the context of content focused courses. Further information about argument visualization, as well as some example maps, may be found at http://bit.ly/phimapsinfo. The presentation will conclude with a little mapping workshop, so if possible, please bring an internet-connected laptop.

    <em>Co-sponsored by Political Science, Philosophy, GC Digital Initiatives, and the Teaching and Learning Center of the CUNY Graduate Center</em>

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