American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2011 Annual Meeting

The following students will present their work at the annual AERA Conference in New Orleans, LA:

Stephen Bishop

• Participatory Assessment for Engagement, Understanding, and Achievement in Online Learning Contexts (paper co-presented with Daniel T. Hickey and Jenna McWilliams)

Diane Glosson

• Here, There and Everywear: Rhizomatic Activity Structures in an online DIY Community of E-Textile Producers (roundtable session)

Jenna McWilliams

• New Tools, New Times, New Learning: Using Digital Environments and Assessments to Promote Sustainable Learning (roundtable session)
• Participatory Assessment for Engagement, Understanding, and Achievement in Online Learning Contexts (paper co-presented with Daniel T. Hickey and Stephen Bishop)

Patrick Pettyjohn

• Barab, S , Pettyjohn, P., Saleh, A., Sewell, B. & Haselton, M. Uganda’s Road to Peace: Using Videogames to Teach Complex Values.
• Pettyjohn, P., Barab, S., & Saleh, A. Scaling Transformational Disruptive Technologies.

Maria Solomou

• "Building Creativity: Collaborative Learning and Creativity in a Virtual Gaming Environment." (paper co-presenting with Dr. Kylie Peppler)
• "Managing the Classroom: The Effect of Teacher Strategies on Fourth Graders' Comprehension of Genetics" (paper co-presented with Dr. Sasha Barab, Asmalina Saleh and Sinem Siyahhan)

Asmalina Saleh

• Saleh, A., Solomou, M., Siyahhan. S., & Barab, S. Managing the Classroom: The Effect of Teacher Strategies on Fourth Graders' Comprehension of Genetics.

Sinem Siyahhan

• Saleh, A., Solomou, M., Siyahhan. S., & Barab, S. Managing the Classroom: The Effect of Teacher Strategies on Fourth Graders' Comprehension of Genetics.

Recent accomplishments

Diane Glosson was named the Student Representative to Learning Sciences faculty and will be attending faculty meetings and speaking on behalf of the graduate student community throughout the 2010-2011 academic year.

Rafi Santo attended the recent Mozilla Drumbeat Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

Maria Solomou had a symposium proposal ("Understanding motivation in context: Learning to build in 3D through in-game narrative participation") accepted for presentation at the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), Exeter, U.K., 30 August - 3 Septembar 2011. Maria also received an Award for her 2010 ICLS presentation, "Building Creativity: Collaborative Learning and Creativity in a Virtual Gaming Environment."

Jenna McWilliams was named a HASTAC Scholar for 2010-2011. She recently presented a talk entitled "When we tell kids they can make a difference...and we're wrong" at the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement.

Jackie Barnes will be presenting a sole-authored piece, "Creativity as Intercontextuality in Math Education" at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in April. Jackie was also a co-author for "Why videogames are not teacherproof: The central role of the teacher when using new technologies in the classroom" which was accepted for the 2011 AERA annual conference.

Michael Downton was named the Robert I. Long award winner for leadership in 2007. Michael recently secured funding from the Institute for Advance Study at Indiana University to bring Professor Jeanne Bamberger, Professor Emerita at M.I.T. and visiting professor at U.C. Berkeley, to IU as a visiting scholar. Michael will be presenting Pieces for Peace: Using Impromptu to Build Musical and Cross-Cultural Understanding at the 2011 AERA conference in New Orleans.