The SiMSAM team will be presenting a poster on our ongoing work at CSCL 2013: Wilkerson-Jerde, M., Gravel, B. & Macrander, C. (2013). SiMSAM: An Integrated Toolkit to Bridge Student, Scientific, and Mathematical Ideas Using Computational Media.
Jean Piaget Society 2013
Christopher Macrander will be presenting a paper based on data from the SiMSAM project at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society in Chicago, IL this June: Macrander, C., Wilkerson-Jerde, M. & Gravel, B. (2013). Nested Framings and the Pursuit of Scientific Inquiry. To be Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget [...]
Posted by on May 23, 2013
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Tufts Teaching with Tech Symp 2013
I spoke a bit about some of the ways I design course activities that engage students as researchers and practitioners at this year’s Teaching with Technology Symposium: Workshop 1B: Sustaining Innovative Course Design – Panel Discussion Addy Alt-Holland, Assistant Professor, Research Administration, School of Dental Medicine Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde, Assistant Professor, Education, School of Arts and [...]
Posted by on May 23, 2013
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Presentations at AERA 2013
Two posters stemming from our work on middle school students’ representational competence have been accepted for presentation at next year’s Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association as part of the Special Interest Group on Learning Sciences (SIG-LS) and Division C-Learning and Instruction, Mathematics programs: Wilkerson-Jerde, M. & Maldonis, J. Patterns in students’ processes [...]
Posted by on November 14, 2012
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NCTM Research Presession 2013
Colleagues from the Poincaré Institute and I will be presenting work on teachers and mathematical modeling at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Research Presession, April 15-17 in Denver, Colorado! This work explores what criteria teachers use to define what constitutes a mathematical model, how that criteria changes depending on context, and what [...]
Posted by on November 14, 2012
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Tufts Computer Science Colloquium, Sept 27 2012
Designing Computational Environments for Mathematical and Scientific Expression September 27, 2012 2:50 pm – 4:00 pm Halligan 111 More information here: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/t/colloquia/current/?event=842
Posted by on September 3, 2012
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Constructionism 2012
Paper Presentation: Toward a data expression toolkit: Identifying the elements of dynamic representational competence in young learners. Aug 25, 2:30 pm. Plenary Panel: Changing the Subject. Aug 26, 9:30 am.
Posted by on August 20, 2012
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Stay abreast of current events in the learning sciences and technology-mediated learning, share your work, and connect with people! Find out more or join at http://www.facebook.com/SIGATL.
Posted by on July 4, 2012
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AERA 2012
AERA 2012 was in Vancouver this year. I presented a poster of ongoing work on an interactive gallery to bridge individual work and classroom-level discussion [PDF]. I am also now Chair of AERA’s Special Interest Group on Advanced Technologies for Learning! For more information about the SIG, visit and like our facebook page. To become a [...]
Posted by on April 13, 2012
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Cyberlearning Summit 2012
Some great talks and great people at the NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/w/index.php/Main_Page
Posted by on January 20, 2012
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