"The Hidden Village" is a world where visitors are challenged with problems at nearly every turn and colorful characters guide them to solutions. Selected for the 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase, the 3D motion capture computer game guides students to solve math problems through their own movements, and provides researchers data to better understand how embodied cognition can advance learning.
The virus has certainly changed the education world, in both teaching and learning. Check out the spring edition of ForwardED for helpful at-home learning resources. Also, read how brain imaging can help students get better at fractions. And find out how to engage multilingual learners in science.
As the world is sheltering safely at home from COVID-19, everyone has more time to think about their future―including children. Parents can help kids figure out what they want to be when they grow up, and get career help themselves, right at home with a self-paced, online career-information system called CareerLocker.
CCWT Director Matthew T. Hora finds that careful redesign of traditional, face-to-face internships can ensure web-based alternatives are meaningful for college students and recent graduates seeking real-world work experience or a bridge to a permanent job during the health crisis.
To help children learn at home during the COVID-19 outbreak, WIDA Early Years has created a new booklet, “Learning Language Every Day: Activities for Families," available free online. The booklet can be downloaded in English and Spanish for printing and sharing.
Campus Alert COVID-19 Updates
All campus events cancelled through the end of spring semester 2020. For the latest information on changes in university operations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, visit covid19.wisc.edu,
WCER Future Events
To be announced as scheduled, online or in other formats
ICQE2020 | International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography 2020 @ICQEConf
Simon Buckingham Shum; Abigail Wooldridge, University of Technology Sydney; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The New York Times, May 22
UW-Madison School of Education, May 22
UW-Madison School of Education, May 18
WCER Communications, May 10
USA Today, May 3
Wisconsin Public Radio, Apr 25
Matthew Wolfgram, Tamanna Akram, and Brian Vivona, May 2020
"Interventions to Optimize Mentoring Relationships for Diverse Biomedical Researchers," Janet Branchaw, Lourdes Guerrero & Christine Pfund, Understanding Interventions Journal, Vol. 11 Issue 1, 2020
"How much is enough? The Impact of Training Dosage and Previous Mentoring Experience on the Effectiveness of a Research Mentor Training Intervention," Jenna Rogers, Janet Branchaw, Anne Marie Weber-Main, Kimberly Spencer, & Christine Pfund, Understanding Interventions Journal, Vol 11 Issue 1, 2020
Diep Nguyen and Nancy Commins, May 2020
"Problematizing college internships: Exploring issues with access, program design, and developmental outcomes in three U.S. colleges," Matthew Hora, Zi Chen, Emily Parrott, Pa Her, International Journal of Work Integrated Learning, 21 (3), 235-252 (April 2020)
Steven Kimball and Bradley Carl have been awarded $1,772,991 from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for "Wisconsin Educator Effectiveness System, Fiscal Years 2021-2023" through June 30, 2023.
H. Gary Cook and Laurene Christensen have received a grant of $1,821,977 from the Department of Education, in a subcontract with prime institution Minnesota Department of Education, for "Advancing ALTELLA: Alternate Assessment Redesign" through Nov. 30, 2021.
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner and Bridget Goosby have been awarded $50,000 from the Spencer Foundation for "Health Profiles of African American Women on the Tenure Track and Beyond" through July 1, 2021.
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