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Citizen Invention empowers kids through design thinking and invention literacy, so they can playfully reinvent the world they live in!

New York, Ny, Us

• Installed and operated real-time locating system at Smith Learning Theater• Designed and presented the Internet of Things (IoT) in EdLab Seminar and led Gottesman Libraries staff members to brainstorm and prototype IoT devices for a more intelligent library learning space (http://edlab.tc.columbia.edu/index.php?q=node/11918)• Co-designed and co-facilitated the 2014 Design Thinking for Financial Literacy workshop for 70 New York City social studies and math educators and helped them create innovative financial literacy curriculum prototypes (http://loot.pressible.org/files/2014/07/2014-Design-Thinking-For-Financial-Literacy-11.pdf)• Co-designed and co-facilitated a design thinking workshop series at the Gottesman Libraries and helped TC community members to reimagine learning space and education •Evaluated educational technologies, apps and games, and wrote Edlab Review entries for New Learning Times (https://newlearningtimes.com/)• Reviewed literature on game-based learning, MOOCs, computation education, social studies education, and wrote Research Digest entries for New Learning Times (https://newlearningtimes.com/)

New York, New York, Us

• Teach graduate level courses 1).Technology, New Media and Social Studies, and 2). Gaming, Learning and Social Studies Education to secondary, pre-service and in-service social studies teachers• Demonstrate more than 15 new media and technology tools and 10 online/video games for social studies teaching and learning • Build online community on the Ning platform to support and extend course learning activities—accumulate more than 250 blog posts and 50 forum discussions regarding technology, new media, gaming and social studies education

New York, Ny, Us

• Led the production of professional development resources for a grant funded project, Understanding Fiscal Responsibility (UFR, http://understandingfiscalresponsibility.org/)• Designed and conducted a workshop on Interactive Media and Learning UFR for high school students from NYC public schools• Developed and coordinated three UFR professional video productions 1).World History https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/3798; 2). Economics https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/3702; 3). Games and Interactive Media https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/4616• Produced online professional development resources for the grant-funded project Let Freedom Swing (http://letfreedomswing.org/) to help educators use curricula effectively• Developed curriculum for HBO Watch It and Learn project to teach youth political and civic responsibility through HBO films and documentaries ( Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later; Boycott)• Led Teaching and Learning Network open course pilot project with eight TC educators from interdisciplinary backgrounds including science, leadership, technology, counseling, and educational psychology• Developed two online open courses—Citizenship Education, and Digital Media and Social Studies— housed at Teachers College Moodle platform as course examples of Teaching and Learning Network pilot project• Co-hosted and produced professional development audio show for educators, Your Permanent Record, including a featured episode interviewing Professor Maxine Greene on creativity and learning• Led Teaching the Levees (TTL http://www.teachingthelevees.org/) curriculum evaluation project aimed at helping curriculum developers and grant funders to determine the impact of the curriculum project

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Teaching, Learning And Curriculum