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iSchool Speaker to Examine Secrets of the Creative Process
College Park, MD (April 28, 2011)—The University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies, Maryland’s iSchool, is hosting a lecture, “How Can We Help People Develop their Creativity?” by researcher Janet Kolodner, on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at 12:30 pm. This talk will be held in the iSchool’s Human-Computer Interaction Lab on the second floor of the Hornbake Building, South Wing.
Kolodner will examine ways to help people develop increased capacity for problem-solving and design. Using existing research on processes involved in creative reasoning and the development of reasoning skills in children, Kolodner will present a pedagogical approach and software resources designed to help people become systematically creative.
Janet Kolodner is a Regents’ Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. An expert in areas of learning, memory and problem-solving by both computers and people, she is a pioneer in the field of case-based reasoning which allows a computer to reason and learn from its experiences. She is also the developer of Learning By Design, a middle school science curriculum that uses design experiences in science instruction.
This event is sponsored through the support of the ADVANCE Program. A partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Program for Inclusive Excellence aims to transform the institutional culture of our University by facilitating networks, offering individual mentoring and support, and offering information and strategic opportunities for women faculty in all areas of academia.
About Maryland’s iSchool
The College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool, empowers people, organizations and society to use information effectively through its research and undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. Maryland's iSchool enables students and faculty to create new ways for people to connect with information that will transform society and is ideally located in the information capital of the world- the Washington DC metro region. The iSchool is transforming itself as well, from a small college with a strong foundation in library and information studies programs to a fast-growing and groundbreaking center of expertise that will help people manage the information explosion from childhood to adulthood.
For more information visit www.ischool.umd.edu
Mary Carroll-Mason
Communications Coordinator
College of Information Studies, Maryland's iSchool
University of Maryland
4110D Hornbake Library
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-1260