Kim Sheridan's Page
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- Tell about your involvement in education, and your ideals for collegial sharing
- I'm a former Project Zero researcher who is now an assistant professor of educational psychology and art and visual technology at George Mason University. I am currently implementing and researching an informal learning project funded by the National Science Foundation where underserved students in the Washington DC area learn to design computer games. I'm interested in studying the types of learning involved when kids start to design things they formerly only consumed.
I've recently started writing a blog called art, media and the mind for Psychology Today:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/authors/kim-sheridan
- About Me:
- I received my doctorate from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2006, and am currently living in Arlington, VA with my husband, Greg, and 7 year old son, Anton.
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I've recently started writing a blog called art, media and the mind for Psychology Today:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/authors/kim-sheridan
You can read more about my work on the game design project here:
http://itest.gmu.edu/project
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/authors/kim-sheridan
You can read more about my work on the game design project here:
http://itest.gmu.edu/project
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Your research is fascinating; thank you for the links to your website, references, articles, investigations. We are enriched by your presence!
Please share some of your learning about the game design project, and about arts and cognition!
BTW, what do you think about the Will Wright game coming out soon, "Spore"? I'm so excited to get the children in my class to use it... Got some games we should know about?
Here's a link to the TED video about Spore. You've probably seen it...
Thanks for all you're doing for the world of education. Please join in on the conversations on Fireside and start some of your own!
BTW, GM has a fond place in my heart because a professor I nearly worshiped went to teach there --but, Oh, he died last year. I did not know that. Ryszard Michalski? Brilliant--I wish I knew more of how his work turned out. Would you have known him?
And,...Peter Stearns,...my introductory history professor. He gave us both the worst book any of us encountered there, and the best! (Out of this Furnace --now widely used and highly memorable.)
Oops...sorry to have diverted you down my memory lane. I am fascinated to learn more about what you're doing.
I would really, really love to see if any students create games to explore history.
Ed
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