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Heather is chairing AERA’s Informal Learning Environments Research group for 2019-2020.
Heather is chairing AERA’s Informal Learning Environments Research group for 2019-2020. The group is dedicated to furthering educational research in informal learning environments and to promote a community practice interested in establishing and maintaining a better understanding of learning in … Continue reading
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Hiring a full-time Lab Manager
The College of Education at Penn State seeks candidates for the position of Lab Manager/Human Research Technologist with the Augmented and Mobile Learning Research (AMLR) Group. The AMLR group (http://sites.psu.edu/augmentedlearning/about-us/stem-pillars//) conducts video-based research studies in libraries, museums, summer camps, gardens, … Continue reading
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Heather and Lucy have new JRST article on informal science learning
New research! With our partnering site, Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center, our informal learning research project examined how guided participation processes support the use of cultural tools (such as scientific equipment) during a nature walk at one nature center. This new … Continue reading
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Tagged engaging with nature, environmental education, family learning, informal education, informal science learning, interaction analysis, life sciences, microethnography, museum education, parent–child interaction, research to practice, sociocultural theory
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Heather and team publish new findings at Interaction Design and Children 2015
With colleague Susan Land and our research team, I presented new findings in a paper at the Interaction Design and Children conference in Boston, MA, USA in June 2015. Through work supporting tablet-mediated science learning during summer camp, we discussed … Continue reading
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Presentations at the NARST 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago
In April, I have two talks with colleagues at the 2015 NARST Annual Meeting in Chicago. The first talk is on our school-community partnership to support bringing community’s concerns related to that environmental sciences into school-based high school science curriculum. The second talk … Continue reading
Heather & Lucy presenting at PAEE on mobile computing outdoors
On March 13, 2015, Lucy & Heather are presenting at the Pennsylvania Association for Environmental Education on a talk called, Engaging with the Outdoors through Mobile Devices. They will create a conversation with outdoor educators, naturalist, park rangers and others … Continue reading
Heather & Chris presenting at Open Badges in Education workshop
On Monday, March 26, 2015, Chris & Heather are presenting on an digital badges with their paper An Online Badging System Supporting Educators’ STEM Learning at Workshop on Open Badges in Education in Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. Download the paper here: Gamrat_Zimmerman_2015_OBIE_Workshop_Long_Paper [pdf]. In our paper, … Continue reading
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Heather is presented research findings on mobile computing
Heather Zimmerman is presented emerging research findings from our team’s COIL grant at the 2nd Annual COIL Research Symposium on Thursday, October 16. The Augmented and Mobile Learning Research Group‘s COIL grant is a 12-month research project on how mobile computers can … Continue reading
Two new articles related to mobile computing to support informal learning.
With my colleague Susan Land, I have two new publications out in the journal TechTrends. Both articles are in a special issue that we co-edited on mobile and augmented computing. Here’s details on the issue: TechTrends Jan/Feb 2014 special issue … Continue reading