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Askwith Essentials: Stephen Wolfram in Conversation with Howard Gardner

At the Askwith Forums on November 6, join Wolfram and Gardner as they discuss views on computational thinking in 21st-century education.

Speakers:

  • Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, HGSE; adjunct professor of Psychology, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; co-founder and senior director, Project Zero
  • Stephen Wolfram, founder & CEO, Wolfram Research; creator, Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language; author, A New Kind of Science 
     

Stephen Wolfram and Howard Gardner discuss views on mathematical thinking in 21st- century education. Topics include: relations among mathematical, logical, computational, programming, and coding skills; whether, and if so in what ways, other disciplines (from science to the arts) should be included in mathematical education; and how we should be thinking about mathematical education, broadly construed, over the lifetime.

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