Lec 2 MIT CMS.930 Media, Education and the Marketplace
star Festival is a new CD ROM based career curriculum that enables teachers to take their students on an interactive electronic field trip to explore other cultures and their own cultural identity originally based on Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology the CD ROM tells the story of real life MIT Professor Shigeru miyagawa as he returns to Japan during the star festival and rediscovers his roots and Heritage finally the seventh day of the seventh month is arrived it's a beautiful clear day so the tanabata lovers will probably meet I feel like I've made a journey too from My adoptive culture back to my roots am I American or Japanese or American and Japanese maybe like the magpies of of the Tabatha my I'm a bridge between two [Music] cultures I thought I knew all about Japan and I realize now I just made a lot of [Music] assumptions the professor recorded his notes into a Hightech diary known as the PDA during the festival he loses the PDA we f...