DML Summer Fellows – DML Hub

Ugochi Acholonu

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:34:43 +0000

Ugochi Acholonu is a Ph.D candidate in the Learning Sciences and Technology Design program at Stanford University. Her research interests include Computers as cognitive tools, User Interfaces and Gaming Technology for the promotion of learning in young children, and cultural influences of access, use, and learning with technology.

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Morgan G. Ames

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:35:31 +0000

Morgan G. Ames draws on training in anthropology, communication, and computer science to research the ways we make sense of new technologies in our everyday lives. She is a doctoral candidate in Stanford University’s Department of Communication and a former National Science Foundation graduate fellow. For her dissertation research, Morgan is investigating the social meanings of the One Laptop Per Child project, tracing its intellectual history and assessing its deployments across the Americas. She spent six months in 2010 conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Paraguay, and is also involved with OLPC research initiatives in Peru, Uruguay, Haiti, and Birmingham, Alabama. With the support of Nokia Research, Morgan previously explored how middle- and working-class families with young children use media and communications technologies. She has also collaborated with research teams at Google, Yahoo!, and Intel. Morgan is advised by Professor Fred Turner at Stanford, and has completed the requirements for a PhD minor in anthropology. She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from UC Berkeley in spring 2004 and a Master’s degree in information science from UC Berkeley in spring 2006.

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Daniel Araya

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:37:31 +0000

Daniel Araya is a Research Fellow in Learning and Innovation with the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). The focus of his research is the confluence of digital technologies and economic globalization on learning and education. He has worked with the Wikimedia Foundation and the Kineo Group in Chicago. In 2011, he received the Hardie Dissertation Award and was selected for the HASTAC Scholars Fellowship. He is currently the co-editor of the Journal of Global Studies in Education. His newest books include: The New Educational Development Paradigm (2012, Peter Lang), Higher Education in the Global Age (2012, Routledge) and Education in the Creative Economy (2010, Peter Lang).

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Elizabeth Babcock

jpond — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:57:03 +0000

As Chief Public Engagement Officer and Roberts Dean of Education, Elizabeth C. Babcock, Ph.D. is responsible for creating and implementing engaging exhibits, public engagement and education programs for the California Academy of Sciences. She seeks to ignite a lifelong curiosity about—and love for—the natural world among all of the visitors, students and educators who come in contact with the institution.

The first person to fill the Academy’s newly-endowed Dean of Education role, Babcock is responsible for ensuring that the Academy’s current and future exhibits remain fresh and engaging for approximately 1.5 million visitors of all ages each year from the Bay Area and around the world. The Academy is home to an aquarium with 38,000 live animals, a planetarium featuring award-winning shows produced by an in-house science visualization team, and compelling natural history exhibits on the evolution and sustainability of life on Earth.

In addition, Babcock’s team of educators develop and deliver a variety of innovative programs within and beyond the museum’s walls. Key education programs include the Teacher Institute on Science and Sustainability, the Careers in Science intern program, and the Enhanced Museum Visits for Students Program for 4th and 5th graders in San Francisco. Dozens of daily and monthly programs for museum visitors, and public lectures offer people opportunities to dive deeper into critical issues such as sustainability, conservation and human health on a person-to-person level. Babcock also guides the development of new digital learning initiatives which allow the Academy to reach audiences beyond the Bay Area, and to engage youth in creating their own science stories.

Babcock was recognized in 2011 as one of the Most Influential Women in Business by the San Franisco Business Times. Before joining the Academy in 2010, she was the Vice President of Education and Library Collections for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Babcock has taught K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and adult students in a range of content areas, including music for special needs students, environmental anthropology, sustainable development, introductory anthropology, and adult literacy. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Indiana University, where she studied international migration and Belizean voluntary associations. She also holds a B.A. in Psychology and a B.M. in Music Education from Northwestern University.

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Adar Ben-Eliyahu

jpond — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:29:02 +0000

Adar Ben-Eliyahu is a current post-doctoral fellow in the Connected Learning Network (2012-current). Prior to becoming part of the MacArthur Foundation, she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Science Activation Lab (2011-2012), Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. In both of these positions, Dr. Ben-Eliyahu was part of a multi-disciplinary team of scholars focused on overcoming challenges related to speaking across disciplines and connecting academic research to practical work aimed at improving youth’s lives. She was a recipient of the American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award. Trained in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Duke University, Dr. Ben-Eliyahu applies a developmental lens to understand how relationships scaffold and shape motivation and self-regulation towards learning. In particular, she focuses on social relationships (e.g., teachers or mentors) as well as relationships with the environment (e.g., content or activity). Digital media serves as a tool through which educators can relate to learners, and also shapes the learning environment by presenting content and activities. Trained in Experimental Psychology from Bar Ilan University (Israel), Dr. Ben-Eliyahu thinks critically about how to plan and conduct research to inform educators and policy makers on adaptive ways to support learning through shaping motivation and self-regulation.

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Rebecca Black

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:57:53 +0000

Rebecca Black is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Technology in the Department of Education at UC Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her research centers on the literacy and socialization practices of young people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds who are writing and participating in online, popular culture-inspired environments. This work includes an explicit focus on the 21st century skills and forms of literacy and learning that youth are engaging with in online spaces. Dr. Black’s work has been published in Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, the International Journal of Learning and Media, and E-learning. Her book, Adolescents and Online Fan Fiction, explores how English language learning youth represent their cultural and linguistic identities through fan fiction texts was published by Peter Lang in the Spring of 2008.

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Tom Boellstorff

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:00:28 +0000

Tom Boellstorff is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and Editor-in-Chief of American Anthropologist, the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association. He is the author of The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia (Princeton University Press, 2005); A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2007); and Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (Princeton University Press, 2008).

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danah boyd

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 09:41:40 +0000

Dr. danah boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a Research Fellow of the Born This Way Foundation, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Her research examines the intersection of technology, society, and youth culture. Currently, she’s focused on privacy, youth meanness and cruelty, and human trafficking. She co-authored Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media. She’s working a new book called “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens.”

Blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/
Twitter: @zephoria

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Karen Brennan

jpond — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:01:23 +0000

Karen is a PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, a member of the Scratch Team, and leads the ScratchEd project. Her research is primarily concerned with the ways in which learning communities support computational creators. More concretely, her work focuses on Scratch and the Scratch educator community, studying how participation in the Scratch online community and how professional development for educators can support young people as creators of computational media.

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Sahara Byrne

jpond — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:21:56 +0000

Sahara Byrne is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her overarching communication interest is in message disruption processes, a theoretical construct known as noise. To this end, her research focuses on the intersection of media effects, strategic communication and cognitive development. I examine strategies that attempt to reduce the negative effects of the media on individuals, particularly those intending to protect children, such as media literacy interventions, governmental policies, censorship, disclaimers, ratings systems, household restrictions, co-viewing and technological filters. She is most interested in why these strategies are sometimes ineffective or actually cause harm. Sahara’s recent research aims to explain why this ‘boomerang effect’ is likely to occur in response to many types of strategic messages, especially those that are pro-social such as health campaigns.

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