Camillia Matuk

Summer Institute: Co-Designing Game-Based Learning Experiences through Teacher-Designer Partnerships

April 18, 2016Camillia Matuk No Comments

Main instructors: Camillia Matuk (Educational Communication and Technology, NYU) & Rebecca Rufo-Tepper (Institute of Play) Description This summer institute engages participants in collaboratively designing solutions to authentic educational problems. Guided by staff from the Institute of Play and from NYU’s faculty in Educational Communication and Technology, teams of graduate students, pre-service teachers, and in-service teachers will form … Continue reading Summer Institute: Co-Designing Game-Based Learning Experiences through Teacher-Designer Partnerships

How would teachers use real-time data in their classrooms?

April 13, 2016Camillia Matuk No Comments

At AERA 2016 in Washington, DC, we presented some work on the initial design of a classroom summary report, which would give teachers an at-a-glance snapshot of their students’ performance in a science inquiry unit. Check it out! Matuk, C., Gerard, L., Lim-Breitbart, J., & Linn, M. C. (2016, April 8-12). Teachers’ reflections on the uses of real-time data … Continue reading How would teachers use real-time data in their classrooms?

Empowering teachers through co-design

March 11, 2016Camillia Matuk No Comments

A special issue of the Journal of Science Teacher Education has just been released on Technology as Inquiry Teaching Partner, co-edited by Libby Gerard, Camillia Matuk, and Marcia Linn. It features a set of research articles on how technology supports and enhances teachers’ practices in teacher education and professional development. One of these, is on how researchers can engage teachers in designing … Continue reading Empowering teachers through co-design

Space, technology, and real-time data analytics

January 8, 2016Camillia Matuk 1 Comment

When: 6:30-8pm, Wednesday, January 13, 2016 Where: MAGNET Room 845, 2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Next Generation Learning Environments: Leveraging Space, Technology, and Real-Time Data to Support Distributed, Collective, and Collaborative Learning While emerging technologies (e.g., tablets, the Internet of Things) are transforming the ways we work, live, and relate to the world around us, traditional classroom settings have … Continue reading Space, technology, and real-time data analytics

Children’s SoHo-inspired store design

August 21, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

In August 2015, Lauren P. Burner-Lawrence spent a week observing children in the Center for Architecture’s summer Store Design program. Read a brief description of her experiences in eOculus Magazine. Photo credit: Lauren P. Burner-Lawrence, 2015

Mike Tissenbaum on blending the digital with the physical

July 19, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

When: 6:30-8pm, July 22, 2015 Where: Room 845 MAGNET, 2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Blending the digital with the physical: Supporting complex inquiry across formal and informal settings There is a growing call by educators and policy makers to engage students in the kinds of authentic inquiry and scientific practices that will prepare them to be productive … Continue reading Mike Tissenbaum on blending the digital with the physical

A Google Classroom brown bag on how teachers customize

July 8, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

This week, Camillia gave a Brown Bag talk at Google’s NYC location. The Google Classroom team were interested in the ways teachers are using WISE to understand their students’ thinking, and guide their curriculum customizations. We looked at cases of teachers using WISE’s grading tool, progress monitor, real-time displays, and authoring environment. Read more about the research here: Matuk, C., Linn, M. C., & Eylon, … Continue reading A Google Classroom brown bag on how teachers customize

How technology gives designers insights into student learning

June 23, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

Our chapter, Supporting the WISE design process: Authoring tools that enable insights into technology-enhanced learning, has just been released. It’s published in the book Authoring Tools and Expert Modeling Techniques, Volume 3 of a series on Design Recommendations for Intelligent Tutoring Systems, edited by Robert Sottilare, Arthur Graesser, Xiangen Hu, and Keith Brawner. In our chapter, we describe how features … Continue reading How technology gives designers insights into student learning

Award for Best Design Paper at CSCL 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden

June 19, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

The 2015 Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference was in sunny Gothenburg, Sweden this summer. Camillia Matuk presented the latest findings of an Idea Manager study, which happily won the award for Best Design Paper! This study explicitly prompted students to seek either similar or different ideas from a public idea repository, and looked at the effects on three … Continue reading Award for Best Design Paper at CSCL 2015 in Gothenburg, Sweden

AERA 2015 in Chicago

April 23, 2015Camillia Matuk No Comments

The annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association was in Chicago this year. It was a great time to catch up with friends, mentors, and former colleagues, and also to meet new people. Camillia Matuk presented two pieces, both focused on the involvement of teachers in designing tools for teaching, and technology-enhanced curriculum materials. Have … Continue reading AERA 2015 in Chicago