Advanced Technologies for Learning (2006-2008)

Brian Foley, Chair
e-mail: brian.foley@csun.edu

Brian Foley is an assistant professor of Secondary Education at Cal State University Northridge where he directs the master's program in educational technology. His current research looks at the design of online learning communities to fit different types of learners. Online tools for communication and collaboration are utilized differently by kids compared to adults (e.g. teachers), and differently within classes compared to informal online communities. This research seeks to identify online environments that support interactions that go beyond simple participation but lead to real engagement with ideas and problems. Brian has been a member of the SIG EST/ATL community since 1996.

Web site: http://www.csun.edu/~bfoley

Joint Officer, ATL/EST

Paulo Blikstein, Secretary/Treasurer
e-mail: paulo@northwestern

Paulo Blikstein is a doctoral candidate at the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Paulo's research focus is the use of computer modeling and robotics for constructionist science education. He is particularly interested in the new knowledge
representation infrastructures emerging from the use of computational representations. His research interests also include the applications of complex systems in education and computational literacy. Paulo currently works with undergraduate and high-schools students, but has previously worked extensively with inner city middle-school students in developing countries, such as Brazil, Mexico, Senegal, and Costa Rica. Apart from his academic career, Paulo has a passion for moviemaking and TV production: Before moving to the US from Brazil for his academic studies, he directed two scientific documentaries, co-wrote a sitcom, and hosted a talk show.
Blikstein holds a B.S. in Materials Engineering and a MSc. in Digital Systems Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a MSc. degree from the MIT Media Laboratory.

Website: http://www.blikstein.com/paulo

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Education in Science and Technology (2006-2007)

Nancy Ares, Co-Chair
e-mail: nancy.ares@rochester.edu

Nancy Ares is an assistant professor in Teaching & Curriculum at the University of Rochester's Warner School of Education and Human Development. Her research interests include cultural relevance in design and use of educational technologies, particularly those that require collaboration for activities to proceed. Viewing technology use in classrooms as social practice, Nancy focuses connections among school, home and youth peer community practices to identify practices
that may travel successfully across contexts. A goal of this work is to widen the types of practices invited into classroom activity, in particular, inviting practices of students that are often under-valued or excluded from teaching and learning in school.

Web site: http://www.rochester.edu/Warner/faculty/ares.html

Education in Science and Technology (2006-2007)

Lisa Marie Bouillion, Co-Chair
e-mail: lmb@gse.upenn.edu

Lisa Bouillion is Assistant Professor of Teaching, Learning & Curriculum at University of Pennsylvania. Her design-based research involves the use of emerging technologies (e.g., ICT, handhelds, video, GIS) to support learning and collaborative problem solving activities in both classroom and out-of-school settings. Her research examines issues of equity in STEM learning opportunities, with a particular focus on the supporting role of culturally-responsive curriculum, and school-community-business-university partnerships.

Advanced Technologies for Learning

Scott McDonald, (Chair 2005-06)
e-mail: sum16@psu.edu

Scott McDonald is Assistant Professor of Science Education at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests are focused around the development and study of a geographically distributed professional development school being designed to support in-service and pre-service inquiry science instruction. He is also interested in novel visual representations of qualitative data.

Web Site: http://www.ed.psu.edu/education/default.asp?which=468

Doug Clark
e-mail: Douglas.B.Clark@asu.edu

Douglas Clark is Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at Arizona State University. His research interests involve developing online learning environments that support English language learners studying science while simultaneously scaffolding their ability to participate in scientific argumentation and discourse about the science concepts in English. His other research interests also engage conceptual change and technology to support science learning. See his website for more information (http://courses.ed.asu.edu/clark/).

Mimi Recker, Chair (2003-04)
e-mail: mimi.recker@usu.edu
Web site: http://it.usu.edu/~mimi

Education in Science and Technology

April Luehmann, Chair (2005-06)
e-mail: april.leuhmann@rochester.edu

April Luehmann is Assistant Professor of Teaching & Curriculum at the Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY. In this position, she developed and directs the secondary science master's and certification program. Her research focuses on professional identity development of beginning science teachers with respect to reform-based practices (See www.getrealscience.org). April has been an active participant in the SIG-EST and SIG-ATL community since 1998.

Web site: http://www.rochester.edu/Warner/faculty/luehmann.html

Cynthia Carter Ching, Chair  (2004-05)
e-mail: ccching@uiuc.edu

Cynthia Carter Ching is Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also holds the position of Chair of the graduate concentration in Technology Studies in Education. Her research interests are in the intersection of science, technology, identity, and culture. Current efforts include studies of children's emerging scientific objectivity and aesthetic sense as seen through digital photo journals, and an investigation of the diversity gap in STEM fields via analysis of the role of technology in young adults' narrative autobiographies. Cynthia has been an active participant in the SIG-EST and SIG-ATL community since 1997.

Linda Shear, Co-Chair  (2003-04)
e-mail: linda.shear@sri.com
See Linda's website to learn more about her (http://ctl.sri.com/people/displayPerson.jsp?Nick=lshear)

Nancy Butler Songer, Co-Chair (2003-04)
e-mail: songer@umich.edu
See Nancy's website to learn more about her
(http://www-personal.umich.edu/%7Esonger/)

Joint Officer, ATL/EST

Josh Kirby, Secretary/Treasurer (2002-04)
e-mail: jak413@psu.edu

Brad Ausman, Webmaster  (2002-04)
e-mail: bda135@psu.edu