michelle wilkerson-jerde

Jean Piaget Society 2013

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:30:33 +0000

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 Society.

SiMSAM at CSCL 2013

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:22:56 +0000

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.

Presentations at AERA 2013

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:01:56 +0000

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 for representing quantitative change across multiple scenarios with multiple media. To be presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Maldonis, J. & Wilkerson-Jerde, M. Middle school students’ representations of quantitative change over time in simple, complex, and statistical situations. To be presented at AERA 2013.

Don’t forget to attend the 2013 Annual Business Meeting of the combined Special Interest Groups in Learning Sciences and Advanced Technologies for Learning (SIG-LS/ATL)!

NCTM Research Presession 2013

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:55:10 +0000

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 that means for teacher preparation and classroom practice.

Wilkerson-Jerde, M., Bautista, A., Brizuela, B. & Tobin, R. “Because that word model is loaded”: What count as models and modeling for middle school mathematics teachers. Poster to be presented at the 2013 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Research Presession.

Tufts Computer Science Colloquium, Sept 27 2012

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:58:43 +0000

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

Constructionism 2012

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:59:06 +0000

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.

“Like” SIG-Advanced Technologies for Learning and SIG-LS on Facebook!

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:13:52 +0000

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.

AERA 2012

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:53:48 +0000

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 member (only $5!), find us on AERA’s SIG Pages. I look forward to working with Joshua Danish (Indiana), Program Chair, our SIG-LS colleagues Lee Martin (UC Davis) and Susan Jurow (Colorado), and our treasurer Mari Levin (Michigan State) over the next two years.

Cyberlearning Summit 2012

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:14:18 +0000

Some great talks and great people at the NSF Cyberlearning Research Summit: http://cyberlearning.sri.com/w/index.php/Main_Page

PME-NA 2011 Presentation & Workshop

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:32:30 +0000

I’ll be at PME-NA 2011 in Reno talking about some DeltaTick work and helping out with the Models and Modeling Working Group.

Designed and Emergent Pedagogical Supports for Coordinating Quantitative and Agent-Based Descriptions of Complex Dynamic Systems
Research Report with Uri Wilensky

Sat, Oct 22 – 10:15am – 11:15am
Tuscany Ballroom / Tuscany 3

Models and Modeling
Working Group with Richard Lesh, Corey Brady, Stephen Hegedus, and Beste Gucler

Fri, Oct 21 – 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Sat, Oct 22 – 3:45pm – 5:30pm
Sun, Oct 23 – 10:15am – 12:15pm
Tuscany Ballroom / Tuscany 2