12 events found.
Lecture
Durell Callier: Disciplined, (dis)remembered, disidentifications
Disciplined, (Dis)remembered, Disidentifications: Narrating Anti-Black Violence in the Lives of Youth.
Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz: The history of public education and blaming teachers
The History of Public Education and Blaming Teachers: A Window onto American Society and the Elusive Struggle for Justice.
Joseph Nelson: Reimagining black boyhood: Strategies for relational learning at school
This talk challenges how U.S. schools have become settings more concerned with the quarantine and control of Black boys' bodies, rather than their learning and development. Now arguably more than ...
Free
Jonathon Reinhardt: Mechanics, dispositions, and styles: Considerations for the design of gameful language learning environments
Dr. Reinhardt will discuss how to design effective game-based environments for second and foreign language (L2) learning, from a game-informed collaborative classroom learning activity to a full-fledged educational game.
Free
Jen Matos: La Familia and other secrets to Latinx student success
Dr. Matos will share how Latinx parents, a well-kept secret ingredient, assist with the academic success of Latinx students at all educational levels.
Simply because people refuse to see me: Black Lives Matter and equity in education. A historical perspective
In this presentation, Professor Yohuru Williams will connect the Black Lives Matter movement to historical racial justice struggles with special attention to disproportionality in education.
Free
Jarvis R. Givens: The Fugitive Life of Black Teaching: A History of Pedagogy and Power
This event will be held at the College of Education Studies building at 164 Mount Vernon Street in Middletown, CT. Professor Givens offers the term "fugitive pedagogy" to characterize African ...
Florencia Anggoro: Designing Cognitive Supports for Children’s Science Learning
Understanding the structure of scientific theories (e.g., the heliocentric model of the solar system, evolution by natural selection, particle theory of matter) is fundamentally a process of relational learning: mapping the ...
Kat Schrier and Matthew Farber: Transforming Our World Through Games
Zoom Registration Required Games can have a powerful impact on learning--but there are limitations. In this conversation, Dr. Kat Schrier and Dr. Matthew Farber will explore how play may (and may not) help ...
Judith Kafka: The Twisted Histories of U.S. Schools and Prisons
Professor Kafka will examine the historic relationship between schools and prisons in the United States, not as a “pipeline” from one to the other, but as interdependent institutions. Using two ...
Ezekiel Dixon-Román: Haunting & Learning Analytics
In this talk, titled "Haunting & Learning Analytics", Dr. Dixon-Román will discuss some of the interventions he is making in his current book, Haunting Algorithms. In this book, he is ...
