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Lana Peterson and Cassie Scharber recently published an article in collaboration with their long-term community partners in Austin Public Schools, MN describing the ways this K-12 school district shifted to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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LT faculty member Bodong Chen and PhD student Basel Hussein recently presented a study in a workshop at the 11th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge conference. Their paper, titled "Modelling Network Dynamics in Social Annotation," examines complex network dynamics in collaborative web annotation in an online classroom.

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Angel Pazurek, a faculty member in Learning Technologies, has been appointed to serve another term on the Board of Directors of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). AECT is an international professional organization of learning designers and educators whose activities are directed toward advancing research and practice in the use of technology for teaching and learning.

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Several Learning Technologies faculty and graduate students recently attended and participated in the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) international conference held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their exceptional leadership and scholarship in the field was represented in a wide variety of presentations, recognitions, and active involvement throughout the conference.

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Dr.Angel Pazurek has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). AECT is an international professional organization of designers and educators whose activities are directed toward advancing knowledge and practice in the use of technology for teaching and learning.

Cassie Scharber and Cynthia Lewis collaborated with Kevin Leander from Vanderbuilt University to contribute an entry published in the latest volume of Literacies and Language Education within the Encyclopedia of Language and Education.
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Team members of the Bright Stars Project recently presented a symposium and a paper at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society in San Francisco, California.
Students and staff from the Learning Technologies program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Minnesota presented at the American Education Research Association’s 101st annual conference this year in San Antonio, TX.
LT’s Lana Peterson and Cassie Scharber recently published an article in the journal, Computers in the Schools.
Peterson, L., & Scharber, C. (2017). Lessons from a laptop pilot. Computers in the Schools, 4(1).
Last week Cassie Scharber coordinated a team from Minnesota to participate workshop in Chicago that was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).