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.
Anne Crampton, Cassie Scharber, Cynthia Lewis, and Yolanda Majors recently published an article in the Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy entitled, “Meaningful and expansive: Literacy learning through technology-mediated productions.”
This article shares research from the Bright Stars Project that examines the complex features
Authored by LT's Lana Peterson and Cassie Scharber, "Learning About Makerspaces: Professional Development with K-12 Inservice Educators" was recently published in a special issue of the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education (JDLTE).
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Makerspaces are the latest educational movement t
Yu-Hui Chang presented, “Not Just Coding: Preparing Preservice Teachers to Develop and Foster Computational Thinking in Technology Integration” at the 2017 Digital Media and Learning (DML) Conference in Irvine, CA.
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).
The LT Media Lab (LTML) and Austin Public Schools (APS) are celebrating three years of partnership. This “research-to-practice” partnership between is sponsored by the Hormel Foundation . LTML and APS have accomplished a lot together, but the true highlight of our work together has been the relationships and collaborations.