Curriculum and Instruction graduate students Danny Hoyt, Muffet Trout, Kathryn Engebretson, and Jason Martel received news that their American Education Research Association (AERA) symposium proposal, organized by Misty Sato, an associate professor in the department, was accepted to the Self-Study SIG. They will present their self-studies in teacher education which focus on the process of becoming, the role of ethical care, identity and ethos development, and the role of subject matter discipline. Discussant Todd Dinkleman will critique and compare the findings with a university-based model of student teacher supervision preparation that uses a collaborative inquiry approach.

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Diversity Dialogues hosts Tim Lensmire, associate professor in Curriculum and Instruction.

Tuesday 11/24/2009
12:00 p.m. - 1 p.m.
40 Peik Hall
Please bring a bag lunch if you like!

White Americans have, from the first, hopelessly confused the real Negroes and Indians, with whom they must for the sake of social survival and civil peace learn to live, with certain projections of their own deepest minds, aspects of their own psychic life with which precisely they find it impossible to live. —Leslie Fiedler

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This past weekend Martha Bigelow, associate professor of second languages and cultures education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, together with Elaine Tarone, professor and director of CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition), and Kit Hansen, lecturer in Writing Studies, gave a keynote address at the MinneTESOL conference about their research with Somali teens on second language acquisition.

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Jill Watson, a doctoral candidate in second languages and cultures education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected as an expert consultant to the Aligned Literacy Project sponsored by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE). Her area of expertise is initial literacy development by English language learners with limited formal schooling. Expert consultants to the project will work to align literacy instruction practices in the state, and will produce 4 webinars to serve as platforms for professional development and school literacy instruction design.

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Associate Professor Kendall King (Curriculum and Instruction, Second Languages and Cultures Education) is traveling to Brasilia, Brasil in November to deliver a keynote address for the Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics. Her topic is language policy and language teaching for a plural and just society.

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Last week, Associate Professor Aaron Doering (Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Technologies) delivered a keynote address at the International Forum on 21st Century Learning in Hangzhou, China.

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Assistant Professor Charles Miller (Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Learning Technologies) was awarded Best Paper at the 2009 AACE E-Learn international conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, on October 28 for his research titled "Role-Based Design: Rethinking Creativity and Innovation in Instructional Design." Along with presenting an improvement to current practice in the field, the goal of the paper and presentation was to stimulate discussion about the contemporary role of designers and the nature of the instructional design process. Dr. Miller's co-authors included Brad Hokanson (University of Minnesota School of Design) and Simon Hooper (Penn State Instructional Systems).

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The Learning Technologies program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction is well represented at the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education's World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education in Vancouver, Canada, October 26-30, 2009. LT faculty members Aaron Doering, Charles Miller, Cassandra Scharber, and LT students attending the conference are involved in six faculty presentations and six student presentations.

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Over 45 people from multiple educational and industry backgrounds gathered at Tony's Diner in Dinkytown Monday evening for (re)desine, an informal event sponsored by Curriculum and Instruction's learning technologies faculty and students.

This (re)desine event featured LT students presenting their work for upcoming international conference presentations. Check out pictures from the event as well as (re)desine's website for future events! Everyone is welcome!

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Martha Spriggs (M.Ed. '03), a math teacher at Andersen United Community School, Minneapolis, is the latest college alum to win the prestigious Milken National Educator Award.

Among her achievements, Spriggs was recognized for outstanding results in the classroom, where 82 percent of her eighth-grade students reach state target scores, and for establishing an after-school science program for girls.

The Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards were established in 1987 by Lowell Milken to recognize the importance of outstanding educators and encourage talented young people to enter the teaching profession.

Read the complete Minnesota Public Radio story on Spriggs's award or read the Minnesota Department of Education release.

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Learning Technologies faculty Aaron Doering, Cassandra Scharber and Charles Miller, along with former LT student George Veletsianos, Ph.D., University of Manchester, UK, have recently published an article on GeoThentic, their most recently developed online K12 teaching and learning environment.

Continue reading "GeoThentic: Designing and Assessing with Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge" »

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Curriculum and Instruction is pleased to host Tom DiMaria, executive director of Creative Growth Studios in Oakland, California, at October's Diversity Dialogue event on Thursday, October 29.

Time: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: 325 Education Sciences Building

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The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations
President's Interdisciplinary Conference
June 4-5, 2010
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Conference chairs Assistant Professor Bic Ngo (Curriculum and Instruction), Associate Professor Martha Bigelow, (Curriculum and Instruction) and Professor Stacey Lee, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, announce the conference and extend a call for papers. Submission deadline: December 21, 2009.

Details are available at the conference Web site.

Download conference call for papers [pdf] and conference flier [pdf]

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Celebrate Book Week 2009 with Susan Marie Swanson, the author of The House In The Night, The 2009 Caldecott Award Book.

Book Week activities take place October 13 - 15, 2009

Book display, Andersen Library Atrium [map]
noon to 6:15 p.m., Tuesday, October 13
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wednesday, October 14
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday, October 15

Review of new books, Willey Hall Auditorium [map]
4 - 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 13
Appetizers* from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Evening lecture,* Willey Hall Auditorium [map]
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, October 13

* $15 charge for appetizers and/or lecture
Please send checks made out to the University of Minnesota to Cathy Zemke, Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455.

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A new edition of New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, co-edited by Professor Thomas Swiss, (Curriculum and Instruction, Culture and Teaching), has just been published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press. By adding new media poetry to the study of hypertext narrative, interactive fiction, computer games, and other digital art forms,New Media Poetics extends our understanding of the computer as an expressive medium, showcases works that are visually arresting, aurally charged, and dynamic, and traces the lineage of new media poetry through print and sound poetics, procedural writing, gestural abstraction and conceptual art, and activist communities formed by emergent poetics.

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Knoll area lockers are now available for students to rent for a semester, academic year, or calendar year. Lockers are located in Peik Hall. The locker rental contract form [pdf] should be completed and returned to 125 Peik Hall along with payment for the rental term.

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Drawing on data from their year-long ethnographic study, Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D. (Curriculum and Instruction) and Jessica Dockter explore the social politics of emotion in a diverse high school classroom where students analyzed and discussed racial representations in the media. The talk focuses on classroom discourse, students' perceptions, and students' media productions to show how emotion functioned to position students as critically engaged learners.
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Tuesday 9/29/2009
12:00 p.m. - 1 p.m.
40 Peik Hall
Please bring a bag lunch if you like!
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Diversity Dialogues are monthly gatherings sponsored by the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. Each features a presentation by faculty, staff, student, or community members. Time is allotted for conversation.

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Associate professor Yvonne Gentzler, Ph.D., (Curriculum and Instruction) helps Goldy Gopher learn to do laundry and manage his time. See Goldy learn new skills in the videos at the links below.

Goldy's laundry dilemma Goldy Gopher suffers from a lack of laundry knowledge. Can he wash maroon and gold together? Will a Badger shirt ruin his other clothing? Good thing U of MN Family Education Professor Yvonne Gentzler is there to lend a helping hand! Take a look ...you might even pick up a few tips yourself!

Goldy learns time management skills Poor Goldy Gopher ...so much to do and so little time to do it! There are football games at the new TCF Bank Stadium, classes to attend, events with alumni ...he's one busy rodent! Fortunately for Goldy, U of MN Family Education Professor Yvonne Gentzler knows a thing or two about how college students can better manage their time as they head back to school.

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Rebecca Rapport, Ph.D. (Curriculum and Instruction), editor of the journal New Books for Young Readers, shares a review of T-Minus: The Race to the Moon by Jim Ottaviani, Kevin Cannon (Illustrator), Zander Cannon (Illustrator) (Aladdin. 2009. 124 pages. $12.99. Informational Science. Intermediate/Adolescent. Multicultural. 1416949607).

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Curriculum and Instruction Professor Thomas Swiss's new book, Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan's Road from Minnesota to the World, co-edited by Colleen Sheehy, former head of education at the Weisman Museum, has been published by the University of Minnesota Press and has received strong reviews in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Continue reading "Swiss Publication Well Received" »

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Bloomington Jefferson High School teacher Elizabeth Boeser (Curriculum and Instruction, M.Ed. '08) has won the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English High School Teacher of Excellence award for the state of Minnesota for her innovative use of online teaching tools.

See the August 26, 2009 StarTribune.com news story.

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Emeritus Professor Harlan Hansen (Curriculum and Instruction) and his wife Ruth Hansen (Ph.D. '81, Curriculum and Instruction) have co-authored a book, Lessons for Literacy, Promoting Preschool Success, published by Readleaf Press. The book is an outgrowth of a two year research and development project working with low income preschools in Naples, Florida supported by the Naples Community Foundation and the Naples Alliance for Children. The Hansens also co-authored a Naples Alliance publication, The Discipline Toolbox, which helps preschool teachers deal with 40 common misbehaviors and was provided free to all preschool programs in Collier County. The Hansens also co-chair the Apple Blossom Award for the top five preschool teachers in the county and Ruth is on the final selection committee for the Golden Apple Award which selects the top five K-12 teachers in the county. Harlan is President and both he and Ruth serve on the board of the SW Florida Chapter of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association.

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Bic Ngo, Ph.D., assistant professor and Martha Bigelow, Ph.D., associate professor (Curriculum and Instruction) received a President's Interdisciplinary Conference award from the Graduate School to convene a conference in Spring 2010. The conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? It will engage university and community colleagues from a variety of disciplines and interests in consideration of ethics and epistemology in research practices and preparation of future researchers. Participants will focus attention on the possibilities and problematics of research with immigrant youth, adults and community members. The conference emphasizes the implications of practices in research design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves immigrant populations. These conversations will include concerns related to IRB as well as those that move beyond IRB.

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The Star Tribune featured PhD candidate Brock Dubbels, who uses video games to teach his middle school students at Seward Montessori in Minneapolis. Through Dubbels' Video as Learning Tools class, students create multimedia presentations on how a game is designed and how players might win. In the process, they work on writing, reading comprehension, working cooperatively, and incorporating technology into their studies.

This summer, Dubbels plans to present at the Games in Education Conference in New York and at the Games+Learning+Society Conference in Wisconsin. He is also sharing his approach with other teachers.

Read the full article: Video games: Play and learn
Photo by Bruce Bisping, Star Tribune

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Former CEHD Dean Steve Yussen, professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Institute of Child Development, has been named editor of AERA's flagship journal, Educational Researcher. Deborah Dillon, Guy Bond Chair in Reading in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and educational psychology professor Michael Harwell join Yussen as associate editors.

Yussen brings more than 35 years of scholarly experience to this new endeavor. In the past he has served as associate editor of Child Development and the Journal of Educational Psychology, as a reviewer for numerous scholarly journals, and as an editorial advisory board member. His own research, which centers on cognitive development, instructional psychology, memory, learning, and reading comprehension in school-age children, has been widely published.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow, Ph.D., (Curriculum and Instruction), has two featured articles in this month's issue of AERA's flagship journal, Educational Researcher, and two articles forthcoming in the Journal of Computer-mediated Communication and the journal of Learning, Media and Technology related to her research on learning with social media:

Greenhow, C. et al. (2009). Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 246-259.

Greenhow, C. et al. (2009). Research on Learning and Teaching with Web 2.0: Bridging Conversations. Educational Researcher, 38 (4), 280-283.

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Curriculum and Instruction has instituted and awarded two new C&I graduate student awards in 2009. The first, an award for Outstanding Graduate Instructor, was awarded to Mary E. Lee-Nichols, a Ph.D. candidate in the Culture and Teaching track (adviser: Tim Lensmire). The second, an award for Outstanding Research Paper, was granted to Pamela Wesely, a student in the Second Languages and Cultures Education track (adviser: Diane Tedick). Dr. Wesely just defended her dissertation and graduated last week.

These two recipients and all the nominees for these awards were honored Saturday, May 9, at C&I's Graduate Studies Open House celebration, an annual gathering to congratulate our M.A. and Ph.D. graduates.

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Please join the Curriculum and Instruction community in congratulating their two Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship recipients. Selcen Guzey (PhD candidate in the science education track, adviser Gill Roehrig) and Phebe Jatau (PhD candidate in the literacy education track, adviser Tim Lensmire) have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships for 2009-2010 from the Graduate School. Guzey's dissertation employs an interpretive multiple case study design and focuses on science teachers who are able to use technology in meaningful ways to teach students not only how to learn science but how to "do" science. Jatau's interpretive ethnography study explores the experiences of young women in schools in her native country, Nigeria; specifically, she is interested in the meaning of schooling for them and how this relates to their ongoing participation (or not) in educational institutions.

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Curriculum and Instruction alumna Amber Place Damm (M.Ed. '02), a seventh- and eighth-grade English and language arts teacher at Clara Barton Open School in Minneapolis, was named 2009 Minnesota Teacher of the Year on Sunday, May 3. She is also Minnesota's nominee for National Teacher of the Year for 2010.

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The Paris-based International Poetry Biennial has announced that Professor Thom Swiss Ph.D., Curriculum and instruction, is a finalist in the new media poetry competition judged by an international jury. His work will be exhibited in Paris this summer while Swiss is teaching at the American University of Paris as Professor of Global Communications. New media poems by Swiss appear in the current issue of Hyperrhiz , a new media journal of art and literature, and the Poetry Project by the Walker Art Museum.

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Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, has received the Robert H. Beck Faculty Teaching Award for her outstanding contributions to education. The award is given for excellence in teaching and advising, innovation in academic program development, and outstanding educational leadership. The award was presented to Lewis at the College of Education and Human Development Alumni Society awards celebration held April 17, 2009. Recipients of the award are nominated by their students.

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Culture and Teaching (CaT) faculty Tim Lensmire, Bic Ngo, Mistilina Sato, and Thom Swiss in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction are pleased to announce three incoming graduate students who have received graduate fellowships for 2009-10. All three incoming students will all be working in areas related to race, culture, diversity, and education.

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Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, was interviewed by Jon Gordon, host of American Public Media's "Future Tense" radio broadcast, on Friday, April 10, 2009 for a feature titled "Engaging kids with social media" about the "DigME" digital media program at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis.

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Thom Swiss, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, has been selected by the Imagine Fund Arts, Design, and Humanities faculty committee to receive a 2009-10 Annual Arts & Humanities Faculty Award of $3000 for his project in "new media poetics, poetry, and pedagogy."

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Professor Cynthia Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Curriculum and Instruction, leads a team of C&I faculty who have served as partners in implementing and supporting DigME, a new digital media program at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. The program is an interdisciplinary program focusing on disciplinary knowledge and critical thinking through the use of digital media analysis and production. It is meant to promote school engagement, learning, and achievement. See accompanying news article and video below.

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Richard Beach, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, will receive the 2009 Computers in Reading Research Award from the technology in literacy education special interest group of the International Reading Association at the association's convention on May 7 in Minneapolis. This award is given in recognition of high quality research related to adolescents, literacy, and uses of digital media.

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Vichet Chhuon, currently at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California - Santa Barbara, will join the Department of Curriculum and Instruction as a postdoctoral fellow next year. Vichet's research interests are in multicultural education, achievement motivation, adolescent development, and Asian American education. He will join faculty members Bic Ngo, Tim Lensmire, Mistilina Sato, and Thom Swiss in the department's culture and teaching track.

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J. B. Mayo, Jr., Ph.D., assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction, has been awarded a 2009 President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award in the amount of $7000 for a project entitled "Seeking the Spirit(s) Among Minnesota's Ojibwe Nation."

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Richard Beach, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction, with Jefferson High School English teacher Liz Boeser (M.Ed., C&I), and doctoral student Candance Doerr-Stevens (C&I: Literacy Education), were featured on EdTechTalk's Teachers Teaching Teachers podcast about the use of online role-play to engage students in persuasive writing.

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Betty Cooke, Ph.D., lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (family, youth, and community), received the Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children's Evelyn House Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the field of early childhood and family education and to MnAEYC. The award was presented to Cooke on February 6, 2009 by MnAEYC co-president Angele Sancho Passe.

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Thom Swiss, Ph.D., professor of culture and teaching in Curriculum and Instruction, co-authored a new book with professor Richard Beach, Ph.D., professor in Curriculum and Instruction and others. Written for teachers, the book is: Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools.

His next book, co-edited with Colleen Sheehy, formerly a director at the Weisman Art Museum, is Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan’s Road from Minnesota to the World. It will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in March.

A co-authored article, "Producing Producers: Women and Electronic Dance Music," a cultural analysis with pedagogical implications for the teaching of music in high schools, appears in the new issue of Current Musicology, published by Columbia University.

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Aaron Doering, Ph.D., assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction, was selected as a participant in the Institute on the Environment's first cohort of resident fellows following a rigorous selection process. The twenty fellows will begin their three-year appointments with the Institute in June 2009.

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Misty Sato Ph.D., assistant professor in Curriculum and Instruction and Tim Lensmire Ph.D., associate professor in Curriculum and Instruction, have just published an article in the January 2009 edition of Phi Delta Kappan titled "Poverty and Payne: Supporting teachers to work with children of poverty." Kappan is the professional education journal of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional education organization of more than 50,000 members worldwide. The article grew out of a talk given through the Department of Curriculum & Instruction Diversity Dialogue series.

Sato & Lensmire argue that the work of Ruby Payne, who published a widely-used book about teaching children of poverty (a book frequently referenced by educators in Minnesota), is based on deficit thinking about children and their capacity to learn and relies on a model of teacher professional development that will not bring about the changes we need in classroom teaching. Ruby Payne provides a response to their criticisms.

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The importance of assistant professor Martha Bigelow's (Curriculum and Instruction) research on helping immigrants learn a second language and helping teachers teach students with limited literacy and language proficiency is highlighted in the College's ResearchWorks bulletin.

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Assistant professor Aaron Doering (Curriculum and Instruction) has been interviewed and quoted recently in several publications, including MPR and the Star Tribune.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) has received a $250,000 grant from the Knight Foundation, in partnership with Seattle technology company NewsCloud, to study youth engagement with social media.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) was recently quoted in an EDUCAUSE-sponsored report on undergraduate students and technology.

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Assistant Professor Aaron Doering (Curriculum and Instruction) recently received the Crystal Award during the Association for Educational Communications and Technology's Annual Convention.

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Students, faculty members, and alumni from the learning technologies program (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) have recently given presentations and received several honors.

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Several students and faculty members in the learning technologies program (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) have recently published articles.

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Associate Professor Martha Bigelow (Curriculum and Instruction) published an editorial offering advice on how educate and engage Muslim students in Minnesota schools.

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Assistant Professor Ben Jacobs (Curriculum and Instruction) offers comment in a story on how teachers are using the nation's financial troubles to help students understand abstract economics concepts.

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Associate Professor Gillian Roehrig (Curriculum and Instruction) is the principal investigator for a $497,711 Head Start grant beginning in late 2008 and ending in August 2011 to develop and study a culturally-relevant science and math curriculum for Head Start programs on the White Earth reservation.

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Professor Pat Avery (Curriculum and Instruction) is the recipient of two grants, one of approximately $75,000 and one of approximately $90,000 from the Constitutional Rights Foundation to continue her evaluation work on "Deliberating in a Democracy in the United States, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, and Russia."

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Postdoctoral Associate Charlie Miller (Curriculum and Instruction) and Associate Professor Sue Rose (Educational Psychology) have received a Phase I Department of Education Stepping Stones grant in the amount of $399,942 for the period October 2008 through September 2010 to develop a technology-based avenue for progress monitoring with deaf and hard of hearing students.

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Assistant Professor Tamara Moore will receive $75,000 over a five-year period to evaluate a significant quality improvement initiative focused on Itasca Community College’s Engineering program.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction), was invited to participate in the National Technology Leadership Summit (NTLS) in Washington, D.C. where her recently published paper on bridging informal and formal learning with participatory media was featured.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) comments on the benefits of technology in a recent KARE-11 story.

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GoNorth! has been named a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate by the Tech Museum of Innovation.

GoNorth! was selected from among hundreds of nominations representing 68 countries as one of 25 innovators from around the world recognized for applying technology to benefit humanity.

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Lecturer Rob Shumer (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) recently gave a presentation on service learning to the Orange County Public Schools Learning Service Program in Florida.

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The National Science Foundation recently awarded a $500,000 grant to Associate Professor Gillian Roehrig and Lecturer Terry Wyberg, both in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, for a teacher preparation project.

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Professor Richard Beach (Department of Curriculum and Instruction) was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Commission on Media for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) has received the University's Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award. The award recognizes extraordinary performance and achievement of postdoctoral scholars at the University of Minnesota. Each recipient will receive an honorarium of $1,000 and will be recognized at the annual Postdoctoral Reception in fall 2008.

Congratulations, Chris!

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The Office of University Relations has selected Assistant Professor Aaron Doering (Curriculum and Instruction) and his adventure learning/GoNorth! research for its next round of Driven to Discover television ads. He is one of only four faculty selected from across the entire University this year.

Aaron follows in the glamorous footsteps of Professor Nicki Crick (Institute of Child Development), whose research on relational aggression was featured in last year's TV ads.

Look for Aaron's commercial to start airing in October.

Congratulations to the entire GoNorth! team.

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On June 30, Trond Febolden, Permanent Secretary of Norway's Ministry of Education and Linda Pederson, Vice Council for the Norwegian Consulate in Minneapolis, visited CEHD. Febolden is responsible for writing the white paper that will guide the reform of teacher education in Norway. During his visit, Febolden met with Carole Gupton and Bob Utke from the Preparation to Practice Group and Ruth Thomas, Tom Post, Aaron Doering, Terry Wyberg, Misty Sato, and Dee Tedick, all from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

During this official visit, the Norwegian delegation will also visit Hamline University, Augsburg College, and the Minnesota Department of Education. At the close of the visit, Febolden expressed interest in establishing formal collaborations between the Norwegian Ministry of Education and CEHD.

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A recent study by postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) on the educational benefits of social networking sites has been garnering media attention from around the world. Below are several multimedia pieces on the study, as well as links to articles.

Download a fully produced podcast on the study.

Digital divide? What digital divide?
THE Journal (Calif.) June 2008

New research reveals educational benefits of social networking web sites
TMCnet.com (Conn.) June 20, 2008

MySpace, Facebook & Orkut's educational side revealed
Economic Times (India) June 21, 2008

KSTP 5 Eyewitness News AM
KSTP (Minn.) June 21, 2008

Social studies
Erie Times-News (Pa.) June 22, 2008

Social networking sites provide educational benefits to students - study
Telecom Paper (The Netherlands) June 23, 2008

Even poor kids are social network savvy
Scientific American (N.Y.) June 26, 2008

View more articles on the study.

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Earlier this year, one of FOX 9's Top Teacher awards was given to Donna Butterfield, a family and consumer sciences teacher at Richfield Middle School here in Minnesota. Donna is a CEHD alum, with an M.Ed. in family education. She has also served as a cooperating teacher for the family and consumer sciences program. Vist MyFox Twin Cities to see Donna accept the award or to read her nomination letter.

Congratulations, Donna!

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Professors David O'Brien and Deborah Dillon (Curriculum and Instruction) presented the results of their two-year evaluation of Hennepin County Library's Guys Read book discussion program in March. Their audience was more than 100 librarians from all parts of the country attending the national conference of the Public Library Association (PLA), a division of the American Library Association.

In her letter of thanks, Gretchen Wronka, Youth Services and Outreach Coordinator at the Hennepin County Library wrote: “Drs. O'Brien and Dillon's Guys Read research is ground-breaking. No other public library in the country has engaged in this kind of academic, neutral evaluation of a children's book discussion program."

Several C&I graduate students are also part of this project: Cassie Scharber, Brad Biggs, Kristen Nichols-Besel, and Beth Brendler.

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Professor Deborah Dillon (Curriculum and Instruction) offers advice to adults on encouraging their children to read.

"A Place of Our Own"
PBS (Va.) June 17, 2008

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In April postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) organized and hosted a guest lecture by Eszter Hargittai of Northwestern University titled “The Digital Production of Inequality." The lecture was co-sponsored by the University's Social Networks Research Collaborative and the Institute for Advanced Study.

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Master's student Peter DeLong (Social Work) and doctoral student Judi Petkau (Curriculum & Instruction) are both mentioned in a recent article on the Southeast Como neighborhood's community garden.

Community gardening season gets started in southeast Como
Minnesota Daily (Minn.) June 11, 2008

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Alumna Sarah Clyne (M.Ed., second languages and cultures) has been named principal of Washington Elementary School in the Champaign, Illinois school district.

Champaign hires 3 principals for fall
News-Gazette (Ill.) June 5, 2008

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Lecturer Rob Shumer (WHRE, C&I) has been named a John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning . The award, which was given by the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, honors individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing service-learning scholarship, particularly in the K-12 context. In particular, the award honors Rob's 2006 publication, The Wisdom of Delphi: An investigation of the most influential studies in K-12 service-learning research in the past 25 years.

Congratulations, Rob!

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Professor Thom Swiss (Curriculum and Instruction) comments in an article on the Minnesota Science Museum's new Star Wars exhibit.

'Star Wars' exhibit comes to Science Museum, but is it science?
MinnPost (Minn.) May 23, 2008

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George Veletsianos (Ph.D. candidate, learning technologies), Cassie Scharber (Ph.D. candidate, learning technologies and literacy), and Assistant Professor Aaron Doering, have contributed a paper titled "When Sex, Drugs, and Violence Enter the Classroom: Conversations between Adolescent Social Studies Students and a Female Pedagogical Agent" for the latest issue of Interacting with Computers.

The paper investigates the discourse between a female conversational pedagogical agent and 59 adolescents in the context of a social studies lesson. A close look at learner–agent discourse revealed that learners readily misuse and abuse virtual characters while treating them as subordinate and inferior objects.

Veletsianos, G., Scharber, C., & Doering, A. (2008). When sex, drugs, and violence enter the classroom: Conversations between adolescent social studies students and a female pedagogical agent. Interacting with Computers, 20(3), 292-301.

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Assistant Professor Mistilina Sato, Assistant Professor Benjamin Jacobs, and Professor Patricia Avery published “Preparing Minnesota Teachers for Diverse Contexts." [PDF] in the Spring 2008 issue of CURA Reporter. The article summarizes initial findings from an ongoing study being conducted by the Minnesota Teacher Education Research Consortium (MNTERC)—a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minnesota State University-Mankato, and the College of St. Catherine—on how teacher preparation experiences contribute to the instructional practices of teachers in Minnesota’s increasingly diverse schools. The first phase of the project was supported by a Faculty Interactive Research Program grant from the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs here at the University. Other members of the research team include Mary Bents (UMN), Linda Distad (St. Kate’s), Jane Gilles (UMN), Taeho Jung (UMN), Daria Paul Dona (MSU-Mankato), Maia Sheppard (UMN), and Ken Vos (St. Kate’s).

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Assistant Professor Bic Ngo (Curriculum and Instruction) has been named one of the University’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty Teaching Fellows for 2008-10. Interdisciplinary Graduate Faculty Teaching Fellowships are intended to foster and support best practices in interdisciplinary graduate research, teaching, and writing at the University. Faculty fellows engage with each other as members of a mutual interdisciplinary intellectual community while simultaneously working to develop and teach new interdisciplinary graduate dissertation seminars. The seminars seek to exemplify best practices in interdisciplinary graduate education and to serve as institutional models for interdisciplinary pedagogy and dissertation writing support.

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On April 12 postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) was interviewed on WCCO Radio on the topic "Social Network Sites like MySpace and Facebook among Teens." Download the interview. [.mp3]

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Assistant Professor Misty Sato (Curriculum and Instruction) recently received a Young Scholars Research Fellowship from the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation. One of only four awarded nationally, the award provides support for the recipient’s research over a two-year period.

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Teaching Specialist Peggy DeLapp (Curriculum and Instruction) was recently awarded one of only 15 prestigious State’s Impact on Federal Education Policy (SIFEPP) Conference Fellow Awards. This honor is for doctoral candidates, advanced degree recipients, and persons engaged in early career research, and recipients will participate in the SIFEPP conference, which takes place at the Holiday Inn Capitol in Washington, D.C. on May 8 and 9, 2008.

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The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) College of Education is establishing the Dr. Barbara Swaby Endowed Professorship to honor CEHD alum Barbara Swaby (M.A., '73, elementary education; Ph.D., '77, education). A $500,000 community fundraising effort is under way to create the endowed chair. This is the first endowed professorship for the UCCS College of Education.

Creating readers, one child at a time
Gazette (Colo.) April 6, 2008

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Graduate student Rachel Pike (elementary education) answered the Daily's question of the week in Friday's issue. Read Rachel's response on page 2.

Question of the week: What are you doing over spring break?
Minnesota Daily (Minn.) March 14, 2008

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Professor Barbara Taylor (Curriculum and Instruction), director of the Minnesota Center for Reading Research, comments on recent cuts to the federally-funded Reading First program.

Popular Minnesota reading program may fall victim to Washington politics
Minnesota Public Radio (Minn.) March 14, 2008

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News about the latest GoNorth! expedition to Fennoscandia is popping up all over:

GoNorth! Team Prepares for Fennoscandian Expedition
KARE-11 (Minn.) Feb. 21, 2008

GoNorth! team prepares to take off
KARE-11 (Minn.) Feb. 28, 2008

K-12ers watch Arctic explorers 'GoNorth'
Minnesota Daily (Minn.) March 12, 2008

Assistant Professor Aaron Doering is the Education Director of GoNorth!

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Doctoral student Brock Dubbels (Curriculum and Instruction) recently had a book chapter accepted for publication:

Dubbels, B.R. (in press) Video games, reading, and transmedial comprehension. In R. E. Ferdig (Ed.), Handbook of research on effective electronic gaming in education. Information Science Reference.

Dubbels was also quoted in an article on classroom blogging practices:

Web 2.0: 5 don't s of classroom blogging pages
Technology Horizons in Education (THE) Journal (Calif.) Feb. 2008

Congratulations Brock!

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“Immigrant Families and U.S. Schools" is the theme of Theory Into Practice, Winter 2008, Volume 47, Number 1, guest edited by Assistant Professor Bic Ngo (Curriculum and Instruction). This issue illustrates the complexity of immigrant education and the critical role of teachers and schools in the transformation of culture and identity and academic achievement. Authors for the issue are: Bic Ngo; Nina Asher; Lesa M. Clarkson; Martha Bigelow; Xue Lan Rong and Paul Fitchett; Nancy López; Stacey J. Lee and Margaret R. Hawkins; Loukia K. Sarroub; and Cindy Cruz.

Read the full press release.

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Emeritus Professor Harlan Hansen (Curriculum and Instruction) and his wife Ruth Hansen (Ph.D. '81, curriculum and instruction) have published The Literate Child: A Developmentally Appropriate Program for Helping Four-Year-Old Children Acquire Basic and Literacy Skills. The manual was developed with a grant from the Naples (Fla.) Foundation and includes 36 outcomes and related activities.

The Hansens have been conducting free workshops for teachers and by the end of February all teachers of four-year-olds in Collier County, Florida, will have received a free copy.

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A new edited volume on language immersion education, co-edited by Tara Williams Fortune (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition) and associate professsor Diane J. Tedick (Curriculum and Instruction), has just become available from Multilingual Matters, Ltd. The volume, Pathways to Multilingualism: Evolving Perspectives on Immersion Education, features chapters by many of the world’s leading scholars in the field of language immersion education.

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This past Tuesday the MAIN Immersion Celebration was held at Northrop Auditorium. MAIN — Minnesota Advocates for Immersion Network — is a non-profit organization comprised of educators that represent Minnesota’s immersion programs and University members representing CEHD’s second languages and cultures education program in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Immersion Projects.

See a 5-minute video clip of the event from WCCO.

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The American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) will hold its annual meeting in New Orleans Feb 6-10. College faculty and staff will make several presentations at the meeting.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) recently published an article.

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Professor Barbara Taylor, director of the Minnesota Center on Reading Research, is a member of the Wireless Generation advisory board. Wireless Generation is the creator of FreeReading.net, a free, sequential, research-based reading intervention program designed for students in kindergarten through first grade.

Florida adopts open-content reading platform
eSchool News (Md.) Jan. 24, 2008

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Alumnus Bill Green (M.A., educational psychology; Ph.D., education), superintendent of Minneapolis public schools, will deliver a homily at Gustavus Adolphus College in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Mixed Blood Theatre to perform on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Gustavus News (Minn.) Jan. 11, 2007

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The College has received a $2 million gift commitment from alumnus Dan Huebner for the creation of the Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology. The endowment fund will support faculty in the field of school-based learning, with a strong emphasis on the value of technology in education.

Aaron Doering will be the first faculty member to hold the chair. Aaron is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and education director of GoNorth!, an adventure learning project for K-12 classrooms. Read the full press release here.

Congratulations, Aaron!

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Professor Deborah Dillon will fill the College's Guy Bond Chair in Reading. One of the nation’s leading reading education scholars, Deborah began her career as a classroom teacher in rural Nebraska working with students in grades four through six. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Georgia and has taught in CEHD’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction since 2001. Read the full press release here.

Congratulations, Deborah!

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Professor Cynthia Lewis (Curriculum and Instruction) and her fellow co-editors of the recently published Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power have won the Edward Fry Book Award from the National Reading Conference. The award is given annually to recognize a book that makes a noteworthy contribution to research in the field of literacy. Read the previous news entry about the book here.

Congratulations Cynthia!

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Professor David O'Brien (Curriculum and Instruction) comments on the need for literacy programs aimed at boys to attract more non-readers (as opposed to boys who are already avid readers).

"Boys and books: How do you get them together?"
Star Tribune (Minn.) Dec. 18, 2007

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Faculty and graduate students in the learning technologies program within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction have recently published several book chapters.

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A team of researchers recently presented at the National Reading Conference in Austin, Texas. "Motivating Boys to Read: An Evaluation of a Community Library Book Club Program" was presented by literacy education graduate students Cassie Scharber, Kristen Nichols-Besel, Brad Biggs, and Beth Brendler and professors Deborah Dillon and David O'Brien from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

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Sophmore Emma Yang and senior Manu Kuffour, both in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, have been awarded UROP grants to support research on learning technologies. Both students will be exploring learning with social computing technologies as part of Dr. Christine Greenhow’s Social Networks Research Collaborative.

Congratulations to these motivated students!

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Assistant Professor Bic Ngo (Curriculum and Instruction) recently published the following article.

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Postdoctoral associate Chris Greenhow (Currculum and Instruction) and her research on social networking technologies were recently featured in a UMN Brief article discussing how seed grants from the Office of Public Engagement are impacting University researchers.

"Seeds of change"
UMN Brief (Minn.) Nov. 7, 2007

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Chris Greenhow, a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was recently awarded an RCR Grant from the Office of the Vice President for Research to create two seminars on Internet research ethics:

• Internet Research Ethics: Issues and Guidelines for Ethical Decision-making, February 2008


• Internet Research Ethics: Strategies from the Field, March 2008

Congratulations Chris!

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Sharon Cormany Ornelas, CEHD professional practice school coordinator and alumna (M.Ed. ’00, second languages and cultures), recently received the Milken National Educator Award. Ornelas received the award at her school, Patrick Henry High School. The Milken Award provides public recognition and an unrestricted financial award of $25,000 to teachers, principals, and specialists who are furthering excellence in education. Read more at "Minneapolis teacher surprised with national honor" on WCCO.com.

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In a recent Independent Review article, curriculum and instruction professors David O'Brien (pictured right) and Richard Beach commented on how technology is changing children's reading and writing experiences.

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Doctoral student Brock Dubbels (Curriculum and Instruction) was an invited speaker at the Games in Education symposium this summer. The conference, held on July 23 in Troy, New York, focused on the use of video games in education.

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Brock Dubbels, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was featured in an article in the October 2007 edition of NEA Today. In the article, titled "Educators Got Game," Brock praises the use of video games to augment teaching practices. He also offers a list of useful educational games for teachers.

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Postdoctoral associate Christine Greenhow (Curriculum and Instruction) recently submitted a proposal to convene a multidisciplinary research symposia on “Networks & Neighborhoods in Cyberspace: Exploring Implications for Education, Humanities, Government, Business and Technology" (with Dr. Ann Hill Duin, OIT and Dr. Joanna O’Connell, CLA). The proposal was one of three grant proposals selected for Phase 1 funding ($25,000) in the MN Futures Grant competition. The symposia will convene researchers from over 10 different disciplines and will be held in Winter 2008. Participants in Phase 1 funded symposia are then eligible to compete for Phase 2 funding of up to $250,000 per project. Contact Christine at greenhow@umn.edu for more information.

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Christine Greenhow, a learning technologies postdoctoral associate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, was recently invited to participate in the International Society of Teacher Education (ISTE) NETS Stakeholders Advisory Council. This 15-person council of representatives from education, business, and government will be working this year to generate a revised set of National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T).

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George Veletsianos, curriculum and instruction Ph.D. student, recently published the following article.

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Lisa Kimball, lecturer in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, discusses traditional and modern godparenting practices in this Robertson County Times article.

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GoNorth!, the adventure learning program developed and managed by Assistant Professor Aaron Doering (Curriculum and Instruction), was recently featured not once, but twice on KARE-11. You can read about the program and view the two television clips here and here. And don't forget to submit your name for one of the newest members of the GoNorth! team: a one-month-old female husky pup!

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Professor Emeritus Thomas Slettehaugh (Curriculum and Instruction) recently received the Archimedes Award from the International Biographical Centre in the United Kingdom. The award, which includes the Archimedes Medal of Honour and the Archimedes Certificate of High Achievement, honors Slettehaugh for his life science research on the creative intellect.

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Amanda Thien, a 2005 graduate from the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, received a 2007 Promising Researcher Award from the National Council of Teachers of English. Thien, who completed her doctorate with CI Professor Richard Beach, is currently an assistant professor of English education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation is entitled, "She's not a prostitute!: Re-reading working-class girls' responses to literature through an examination of interpretive practices."

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Several members of the College community received awards from the Women's Philanthropic Leadership Circle (WPLC) this year:

• Faculty/Staff award: Michelle Everson, Educational Psychology
• Graduate student awards: Eva Lynn Boehm, Curriculum and Instruction; Julia Conkel, Educational Psychology; Kaoru Kinoshita, Educational Policy and Administration; and Kyoung-Ah Nam, Educational Policy and Administration.
• Rising Star awards: Kristen McMaster, Educational Psychology; and Karen Miksch, Post Secondary Teaching and Learning.

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Professor Cynthia Lewis (curriculum and instruction) recently published a co-edited book. Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power that are central to understanding literacy research and literacy learning as social and cultural practices. The book has been nominated for the Edward Fry Book Award from the National Reading Conference. The award winner will be announced in November of 2007.

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Assistant Professor Aaron Doering (Curriculum and Instruction) gave the keynote speech at the meeting of the Computer and Internet Applications in Education Special Interest Group at the 2007 American Educational Research Association conference. The presentation, entitled “GoNorth! An American adventure goes global!" focused on his adventure learning programs.

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Bic Ngo, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, is co-editor of Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education: Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations, recently published by Peter Lang Publishers. The book offers a variety of resources for elementary and secondary educators and teacher educators interested in exploring new and innovative ways to challenge racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression in the classroom.

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Aaron Doering, assistant professor of curriculum and instruction, received a $150,000 grant from the National Geographic Society for his project Learning Geography through Geospatial Technologies. Through this project, an online course will be developed on ways pre- and in-service K-16 teachers can effectively teach geography using a range of geospatial technologies. Although the course will be completely online, it will also be designed to be delivered in a hybrid (online and face-to-face) environment as well. Doering also received a $145,000 grant from the Best Buy Children’s Foundation for his adventure learning project, GoNorth! This grant supports the current phase of this program, GoNorth! Chukotka 2007, an adventure learning program focused on the region of Chukotka, Russia.

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