By Beth Tripmacher (LTXD) 

Interested in learning more about educational technology and the learning sciences from researchers at NYU and around the globe? Attend an event in the Brownbag Speaker Series! This semester, ECT hosted eight talks from PhD candidates, post-doc researchers, and professors from as close as NYU to as far as Germany. 

In April, Dani Snyder-Young, a scholar of applied theatre and contemporary US activist performance, presented the Data Theatre Collaborative’s work to translate quantitative data into theatrical language to engage communities. Two talks focused on the role of AI in education: W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology in Administration, Leadership, and Technology at New York University, took the long view of artificial intelligence in his discussion of next-generation AI, and Jennifer Meyer, a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Educational Science and Educational Psychology at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education discussed her research on the effectiveness of generative AI in providing feedback to students to improve their writing. We also heard from three of ECT’s PhD candidates about their research: Jonathan Martinez discussed integrating research strands in Critical Pedagogy and Learning Science in technology-rich spaces; Jeff Brenneman addressed the role of narrative design and emotional design in game-based learning; and Xiaomeng Huang shared some preliminary findings from the literature on the development of collaboration skills through analytics-supported feedback.