Doctoral Student and Research Assistant at the Lynch School of Education and the Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College
Greater Boston Area
Doctoral Student and Research Assistant at the Lynch School of Education and the Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College
Greater Boston Area
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Doctoral student focusing on science and environmental education as a means to encourage connections with community connections and activism, and the ways that technology can help facilitate this transfer. Especially interested in the ways that learners interact through technology with content (via tagging, annotations, and other forms of metadata) and with each other to construct understandings of the world around them, and the ways that technology can serve to scaffold the process for learners from diverse backgrounds and with diverse learning needs and preferences.
Technology in education, science and environmental education, Universal Design for Learning, learning communities and communities of practice, the role of emerging technologies and web 2.0 in learning, collaborative meaning making, activism-oriented and transformative education, pedagogy of place
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
(Educational Institution; 11-50 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
Ph.D. , Education: Science, Technology, and Math , 2007 — 2011 (expected)
Ed.M. , Technology in Education , 2002 — 2003
Medicine 1998 — 1999
Post-Bac Pre-Med , Medical Studies , 1995 — 1996
BA , Anthropology , 1991 — 1995
education and lifelong learning, environmental activism, emerging and social technologies, web2.0, knowledge management, collaboration, hiking, photography
American Educational Research Association, Waltham Land Trust, Lincoln Woods Information Project
Environmentalist of the Year, Waltham Land Trust, 2007
James Mandon Memorial Award for Social Citizenship, Brandeis University, 1995