Batsheva de Rothschild Workshop on
Embodied Cognition and Learning in STEAM

Program

Reception, Organization, Refreshments

• 09:00 - 10:00

Opening Session

• Introduction
• Prof. Bat-Sheva Eylon and Dr. Roni Zohar

• 10:00 - 10:20

Brain & Perception

• Embodied Perception in Brains and Machines
• Prof. Ehud Ahissar

• 10:20 -10:45

• Neuroeducation: Reinventing the Classroom with the Brain in? Mind?
• Prof. Gerry Leisman

• 10:50 - 11:15

Break

• 11:15 - 11:35

Physics Learning

• Movements, Dancing and Physics Learning
• Dr. Roni Zohar

• 11:40 - 12:25

• Between Physics Street and Motivation
• Dr. Alex Volfson and Dr. Yuval Ben Abu

• 12:30 - 13:00

Lunch

• 13:00 - 14:00

Workshops: Learning Through a Circus

• 14:00 - 15:00

Mah Tovu Ohalekha Ya'akov: Studying the Tanakh Through Circus Arts

Dr. Ora Horn & Ayal Prouser

Between Circus and Science

Dr. Alex Volfson and Dr. Yuval Ben Abu

Receiving Rooms and Resting

• 15:00 - 16:00

Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Technology

• Supporting Visualization of Chemical Content through the Creation of Plastic and Sound Representations
• Dr. Debora Marchak

• 16:00 - 16:25

• Computer Science without a Computer
• Prof. Hagit Hel-Or

• 16:30 - 16:55

Break, Refreshments

• 16:55 - 17:15

• Attentional Anchors: Grounding Mathematical Concepts in Perceptual Solutions to Motor Coordination Problems
• Prof. Dor Abrahamson

• 17:15 - 17:45

• Eliciting Gesture with STEM Learning Technologies
• Prof. Robb W Lindgren

• 17:50 - 18:20

Break

• 18:20 - 18:30

Workshops

• The Couple's Dance: Science, Research and Everything in Between
• Sean Ziv

• 18:30 - 19:15

Dinner

• 19:15 - 20:00

Free Time

• 20:00 - 21:00

Creativity, Science and Movement

• Sensing Science
• Prof. Atan Gross

• 21:00 - 21:25

• Crossing the Fields of Knowledge
• Sharona Florsheim & Tal Yizrael

• 21:30 - 22:00

• Improvisation in Movements, Dancing, Music…
• Dr. Roni Zohar

• 22:00 - 23:00