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Author Biographies
Dr. Katherine McMillan Culp
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Dr.
Margaret Honey
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Dr. Sherry Hsi
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Professor
Brenda Laurel
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Peter
Lyman
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Dr. Nichole Pinkard
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Andrew
Rotherham
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Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey
Dr. Katherine McMillan Culp
is
a senior project director at Education Development Center
Inc./Center for Children & Technology.
She has thirteen years of experience in managing evaluations
of innovative programs to improve the quality of technology
use in K-12 classrooms and informal educational settings.
For the past five years she has overseen evaluations of
several of the Intel Corporation’s Innovations
in Education initiatives. She has also conducted a
series of program evaluations studying strategies for
using modeling and simulation tools in science classrooms,
as well as qualitative studies of technology integration
at both the classroom and district level. She is a
graduate of Amherst College and holds a Ph.D. in developmental
psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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Dr. Sherry Hsi
. Dr. Hsi is the Director
of Research for the Center for Learning and Teaching
at the Exploratorium. Her interests lie at the intersection
of learning, design, and technology. Her research focuses
on understanding how to design social contexts for
learning, facilitation, and deeper reflection mediated
by new media and networked technologies. At the Exploratorium,
she is evaluating online museum visitors and studying
how web content, handhelds, and wireless technologies
can be instructionally-designed to support nomadic inquiry.
In 2003, she was awarded a grant from the NSF National Science
Digital Library program to create an exhibit-based science
learning and teaching digital library. Before joining the
Exploratorium, Dr. Hsi was a post-doc scholar with the NSF-funded
Center for Innovative Learning Technologies (1998-2000) in
the area of ubiquitous computing studying the use of Palm
computers by students and was on the faculty at the first
Virtual High School. She is the co-author of the book Computers,
Teachers, Peers: Science Learning Partners and the PI of
the MacArthur Project "Digita-mediated learning for
next generation youth." She is a graduate of the University
of California Berkeley’s College of Engineering and
holds a PhD in science education.
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Peter Lyman
is Professor in the School of Information Management
and Systems at UC Berkeley, an interdisciplinary school that
combines computer science and social science in research and
teaching about emerging information cultures and tools. He
received his BA from Stanford University in Philosophy, MA
from Berkeley in Political Science, and PhD in Political Science
from Stanford. He currently serves on the editorial boards
of the American Behavioral Scientist; The Journal of Electronic
Publishing; Information Technology, Education and Society;
E-government; and Vectors: A Journal of Culture and Technology
in a Dynamic Vernacular. He is a member of the Board of Directors
of Sage Publishing, Inc., a social science publisher, and serves
on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Museums
of San Francisco. Previously he served on the Board of
Directors of EDUCOM, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), The
Babbage Institute, the Council on Library and Information Resources
(CLIR), the Art History Information Project at the Getty Trust,
and the Internet Archive. His research fields include the ethnographic
study of online social relationships and communities, educational
software, technology transfer from research communities to
businesses. In 2004 he completed a study of how much
new information is produced every year [See <
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and a study of the metaphors that guide information policy
("Information Superhighways, Virtual Communities and Digital
Libraries: Information Society Metaphors as Political Rhetoric" Technological
Visions [Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004] 201-218.]. He
is currently working with Mimi Ito of the Annenberg Center
at USC on a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to understand
how kids' informal learning is being shaped by new media.
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Professor Brenda Laurel
is the Chair of the graduate Media
Design Program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Professor Laurel is a designer, researcher and writer. Her
work focuses on interactive narrative, human-computer interaction,
and cultural aspects of technology. She holds an M.F.A. and
Ph.D. in theatre from the Ohio State University. Her doctoral
dissertation was the first to propose a comprehensive architecture
for computer-based interactive fantasy and fiction. She was
one of the founding members of the research staff at Interval
Research Corporation in Palo Alto, California, where she
coordinated research activities exploring gender and technology,
and co-produced and directed the Placeholder Virtual Reality
project. She was also one of the founders and VP/Design of
a spinoff company from Interval - Purple Moon - formed to
market products based on this research. She has worked as
a software designer, producer, and researcher for companies
including Atari, Activision, and Apple. Prof. She is editor
of the book, The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design [Addison-Wesley
1990] and author of Computers as Theatre [Addison-Wesley
1991; 2nd edition 1993], and a collection of essays entitled
Severed Heads. Her newest books is Design Research [M.I.T.
Press, 2004].
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Dr. Nichole Pinkard
is the Director of Technology and Research
Associate, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago.
Prof. Pinkard received her bachelor’s degree in Computer
Science from Stanford University and a master’s degree
in Computer Science and Ph.D. in Education from Northwestern
University where she developed software to leverage background
knowledge to teach beginning reading. She received the Jan
Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic
Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and an
NSF Early CAREER Fellowship. Her current scholarly interests
include culturally responsive computer-based learning environments;
cultural contexts affecting learning broadly and literacy
specifically, visualization tools to support analysis of
data, gender and technology, and ubiquitous scaffolds.
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Andrew Rotherham
is co-founder and co-director of Education
Sector, a national education policy think tank and a senior
fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. In addition he
serves on the Virginia Board of Education, a position he
was appointed to by Governor Mark Warner in 2005. Previously,
Rotherham served at The White House as Special Assistant
to the President for Domestic Policy during the Clinton Administration.
Rotherham is the author of numerous articles and papers about
education and co-editor of three books on educational policy.
He serves on advisory boards and committees for organizations
including the American Academy for Liberal Education, Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation, Broad Foundation, Common Good,
National Governors Association, National Association of Charter
School Authorizers, and New Schools Venture Fund. He is also
a trustee of the Cesar Chavez Public Charter High School
for Public Policy and member of the board of directors for
the Charter School Leadership Council and the board of directors
for the National Council on Teacher Quality.
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Dr. Kristina Hooper Woolsey
is a cognitive psychologist
who has pursued the study of images and learning for more
than thirty years. This pursuit has included basic research
investigations, technology and end-user innovations, multimedia
product design and educational policy experience. Woolsey
completed her Ph.D. in 1973 at UCSD in cognitive science.
She then went to UCB in Landscape Architecture as a Postdoctoral
Fellow to investigate images of places. This work led very
directly to her participation in the "Aspen Project" at
the Architecture Machine Group at MIT, now the MIT Media
Lab. She was a Visiting Faculty Member at MIT and a Faculty
Member at UCSC where she received a number of federal grants
to develop and study geographic information systems and the
incorporation of imagery in computers to encourage mathematical
understanding. Pursuing her interest in emerging technology
that supported image-rich conversations, Woolsey became the
Director of the Atari Research Lab, a think tank that explored
ideas of virtual reality, robotics, electronic encyclopedia,
gaming and other "future uses" of computers. She
joined Apple Computer, Inc. in 1985, where she was a founding
member of the human interface group as well as the co-founder
and Director of the Apple Multimedia Lab. At the Multimedia
Lab she established a range of collaborations for Apple Computer,
Inc., in the area of multimedia and education, including
collaborations with LucasFilm, the National Geographic Society,
the Smithsonian Institution and Scholastic Publishing. In
1995 she was the executive producer, author and writer of
VizAbility, a CD-ROM and Handbook which explored visualization
and thinking. In 1998 to become a technology/education/design
consultant. She worked with the James Irvine Foundation for
four years on their CORAL program, an afterschool program
for underserved youth. Woolsey is currently the "visionary" member
of the New Media Centers, a consortium of universities and
museums dedicated to the development of new digital media.
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Dr. Margaret Honey
,Vice President of the
Education
Development Center and Director of EDC's Center for Children
and Technology
, has worked in the field of educational
technology since 1981. Her primary research interests include
the role of technology in school reform and student achievement,
the use of telecommunications technology to support online
learning communities, and issues of equity associated with
the development and use of technology. She conducted the
first national survey to look at K-12 educators' use of telecommunications
(1992), and in collaboration with Bank Street College, she
developed one of the first projects to cultivate the Internet
as an environment in which to advance teacher professional
development (1993). For more than a decade she has been associated
with
district-wide
school reform efforts in Union City, New Jersey
, nationally
recognized for its success in incorporating technology throughout
its programs. Beyond overseeing CCT's extensive involvement
with educational technology research and development nationwide,
she is personally involved in several projects aimed at helping
educators make effective use of data, including efforts to
use technology tools to support data-driven decision making.
In 1999 she was appointed to the Department of Education's
Expert Panel on Educational Technology, charged with the
responsibility for creating a framework to be used in assessing
the effectiveness of all educational technology programs.
Dr. Honey regularly contributes to educational publications,
and presents at major technology and education conferences.
She has served on the board of the Consortium for School
Networking, and currently serves on advisory boards of math,
science and technology projects nationwide. She holds a doctorate
in developmental psychology from Columbia University.
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