The Computing Innovation Fellows Project

Posted on: Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Broad Research Area: Computer Science Education / Educational Technology, HCI / CSCW, Information Systems / Information Science, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing

Research Interests:

The goal of our research is to understand the impact that children can have on the design of new technologies and to understand the impact of that these technologies can have on children’s learning experiences. Our interdisciplinary lab of computer and information scientists collaborate with a variety of partners (e.g., The U.S. National Park Service, UNICEF, Sesame Workshop, The Mongolian Ministry of Education through the World Bank, Microsoft, Discovery Communications, etc.) to develop new educational technologies that range from digital libraries to mobile storytelling experiences.

Our newest work is a collaboration we have just begun with the Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall (NYC). The focus of this partnership will be to create online tools for social musical interaction that can be accessed with traditional desktop/laptop technologies and with the use of new mobile technologies. We will ask with this research, how can students share musical energy, artistry, and cultural understanding with the bandwidth of online communities, mobile media, live distance ed technologies & digital libraries?

The educational programs at Carnegie Hall take place on a world-wide stage serving students in Istanbul to Mexico City to New York City. There is also a model school in Harlem, NY where new ways of infusing music into all parts of the K-8 program are being explored. The computing tools we will be building bring together social computing with advanced digital libraries to expand the possibilities for music education.

Contact Information:

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