Profiles in "Learning Sciences" Expertise Area

  • Steve Zuiker's research explores how to design activities, resources, and projects that interconnect classrooms and schoolyards, real-world settings and digital video games, and ultimately, educational practice and research.
  • Dr. Danielle McNamara is the Executive Director of the Learning Engineering Institute and the Director of the Science of Learning and Educational Technology (SoLET) laboratory at ASU.
  • Ying-Chih Chen's research agenda focuses on how teachers use student scientific uncertainty as a pedagogical resource to facilitate students' practices of argumentation, Sensemakign, and modeling.
  • Dr. J. Bryan Henderson is an Associate Professor interested is in the utilization of educational technology to facilitate critical, peer-to-peer science learning. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
  • Olsen teaches Technical Editing (431/531) at ASU. She has educational background in technical communication, composition and rhetoric, culinary arts, information science, and instructional technology.
  • Amy Bartlett has a passion for teaching science methods and mentoring aspiring educators in professional experience courses. She enjoys conducting PD to prepare teachers to use inquiry-based learning in their classrooms.
  • The focus of Carla Firetto's research examines individual difference and mechanisms of learning to facilitate students’ high-level comprehension of complex texts and content.