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<title>636 SEO</title>
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<author>Mathematics Education Seminar Kaye Stacey</author>
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<title>Constrained Thinking in Chemistry</title>
<description>Constrained Thinking in Chemistry</description>
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<author>Vicente Talanquer, Ph.D.; University of Arizona</author>
<pubDate>9/16/2008</pubDate>
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<title>From Research to Practice: Redesigning AP Science Courses to Promote Advanced Learning and Conceptual Understanding</title>
<description>From Research to Practice: Redesigning AP Science Courses to Promote Advanced Learning and Conceptual Understanding</description>
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<author>Jim Pellegrino, Co-Director LSRI, UIC </author>
<pubDate>9/17/2008</pubDate>
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<title>One of America’s most tireless and influential advocates for public education</title>
<description>One of America’s most tireless and influential advocates for public education</description>
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<author>Jonathan Kozol</author>
<pubDate>10/20/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Intellectual Need and Its Application in Mathematics Instruction</title>
<description>Intellectual Need and Its Application in Mathematics Instruction</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=104</link>
<author>Guershon Harel, University of California, San Diego</author>
<pubDate>10/24/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Learning Mathematics Within and Across School and Home Contexts</title>
<description>Learning Mathematics Within and Across School and Home Contexts</description>
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<author>Kara Jackson, Vanderbilt University</author>
<pubDate>10/28/2008</pubDate>
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<title>All I Ever Needed to Know About Learning Science I Learned From Being Halfway There </title>
<description>All I Ever Needed to Know About Learning Science I Learned From Being Halfway There </description>
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<author>Nancy Butler Songer, The University of Michigan </author>
<pubDate>10/31/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science: Research and Practice</title>
<description>Excellence in Teaching Mathematics and Science: Research and Practice</description>
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<author>Spring 2009 Chicago Symposium Series - National Louis University</author>
<pubDate>2/6/2009</pubDate>
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<title>UIC Student Center East, 1st floor lobby; 750 South Halsted Street</title>
<description>UIC Student Center East, 1st floor lobby; 750 South Halsted Street</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=108</link>
<author>Learning Sciences Ph.D. Program Informational Booth</author>
<pubDate>11/18/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Where da heat go? Agency, Identity, and Science</title>
<description>Where da heat go? Agency, Identity, and Science</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=109</link>
<author>Angela Calabrese Barton, Michigan State University</author>
<pubDate>12/2/2008</pubDate>
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<title>To Test or Not to Test: That is NOT the Question!</title>
<description>To Test or Not to Test: That is NOT the Question!</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=110</link>
<author>James Pellegrino, Co-director, LSRI</author>
<pubDate>11/17/2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Role of Definitions in Teaching, Learning, and Doing Mathematics: An Example of MKT</title>
<description>The Role of Definitions in Teaching, Learning, and Doing Mathematics: An Example of MKT</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=111</link>
<author>Hyman Bass and Mark Thames</author>
<pubDate>1/14/2009</pubDate>
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<title>How Reflection Undoes Service Learning</title>
<description>How Reflection Undoes Service Learning</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=112</link>
<author>Ann Feldman</author>
<pubDate>1/30/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Learning with visualizations: Some implications for students' learning and some directions for Learning Sciences research.</title>
<description>Learning with visualizations: Some implications for students' learning and some directions for Learning Sciences research.</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=113</link>
<author>Janice Gobert, Dept. of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute</author>
<pubDate>2/13/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Design In-Sites for Digital Video Research in the Learning Sciences: The Points of Viewing Theory, </title>
<description>Design In-Sites for Digital Video Research in the Learning Sciences: The Points of Viewing Theory, </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=114</link>
<author>Ricki Goldman; CREATE Lab, New York University</author>
<pubDate>2/20/2009</pubDate>
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<title>I See What You Know</title>
<description>I See What You Know</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=115</link>
<author>Pierre Dillenbourg; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology</author>
<pubDate>2/25/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Does Learning Develop?</title>
<description>Does Learning Develop?</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=4</link>
<author>Deanna Kuhn, Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University </author>
<pubDate>4/1/2005</pubDate>
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<title>Preparing Teachers to Foster Algebraic Thinking: Conducting and Studying Development within the STAAR Project</title>
<description>Preparing Teachers to Foster Algebraic Thinking: Conducting and Studying Development within the STAAR Project</description>
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<author>Hilda Borko, University of Colorado - Boulder</author>
<pubDate>11/12/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Collarborative Reasoning in Asia</title>
<description>Collarborative Reasoning in Asia</description>
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<author>Richard Anderson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign</author>
<pubDate>2/18/2005</pubDate>
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<title>From Case-Based Reasoning to Learning by Design to Design of Technology for Learning</title>
<description>From Case-Based Reasoning to Learning by Design to Design of Technology for Learning</description>
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<author>Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology</author>
<pubDate>10/12/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Using Culture to Boost Cognition in Middle School Science Classrooms</title>
<description>Using Culture to Boost Cognition in Middle School Science Classrooms</description>
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<author>Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology</author>
<pubDate>10/11/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Learning Across Space and Time: From GameWorlds to Learning Environments</title>
<description>Learning Across Space and Time: From GameWorlds to Learning Environments</description>
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<author>Jay L. Lemke, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>10/1/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Probabilities and Predictions: Modeling the Development of Scientific Competence</title>
<description>Probabilities and Predictions: Modeling the Development of Scientific Competence</description>
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<author>Ron Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles, Director of the IMMEX Project</author>
<pubDate>8/5/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Tools to Assist in Identifying and Monitoring Student Thinking in Science and Mathematics</title>
<description>Tools to Assist in Identifying and Monitoring Student Thinking in Science and Mathematics</description>
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<author>Jim Minstrell, FACET Innovations</author>
<pubDate>6/17/2004</pubDate>
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<title>What Is This Thing called Learning Sciences?</title>
<description>What Is This Thing called Learning Sciences?</description>
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<author>Louis Gomez, Northwestern University</author>
<pubDate>3/30/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Collaborative Dynabooks: A Research Agenda on Building Systems to Support Learning through Multimedia</title>
<description>Collaborative Dynabooks: A Research Agenda on Building Systems to Support Learning through Multimedia</description>
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<author>Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology</author>
<pubDate>3/9/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Constructing Media as a Context for Teaching Computing and Motivating Women and Non-Majors</title>
<description>Constructing Media as a Context for Teaching Computing and Motivating Women and Non-Majors</description>
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<author>Mark Guzdial, Georgia Institute of Technology</author>
<pubDate>3/10/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Designing Comprehensive Professional Development Systems that Support Standards-Based Curriculum Reform and Student Learning</title>
<description>Designing Comprehensive Professional Development Systems that Support Standards-Based Curriculum Reform and Student Learning</description>
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<author>Barry Fishman, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>1/29/2004</pubDate>
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<title>Present at the Creation: Conducting Research that Fosters the Usability of Innovations in Educational Reform</title>
<description>Present at the Creation: Conducting Research that Fosters the Usability of Innovations in Educational Reform</description>
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<author>Barry Fishman, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>1/30/2004</pubDate>
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<title>The Concept of Psychological Measurement</title>
<description>The Concept of Psychological Measurement</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=19</link>
<author>Denny Borsboom (Univeristy of Amsterdam)</author>
<pubDate>11/11/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Pre-service Teachers' Conceptions of Whole Numbers</title>
<description>Pre-service Teachers' Conceptions of Whole Numbers</description>
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<author>Eva Thanheiser (San Diego State University)</author>
<pubDate>11/7/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Watching the Brain Comprehend</title>
<description>Watching the Brain Comprehend</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=21</link>
<author>Morton Gernsbacher (University of Wisconsin, Madison)</author>
<pubDate>10/24/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Using community knowledge for curriculum and learning in math; Bringing parents into standards-based math</title>
<description>Using community knowledge for curriculum and learning in math; Bringing parents into standards-based math</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=22</link>
<author>Marta Civil (University of Arizona)</author>
<pubDate>10/16/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Framing School Leadership: A Distributed Perspective</title>
<description>Framing School Leadership: A Distributed Perspective</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=23</link>
<author>Jim Spillane, Northwestern University</author>
<pubDate>4/11/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Situating Mathematics: Socialization, Meaning-Making, and Mathematics Identity Among African American Adults and Adolescents</title>
<description>Situating Mathematics: Socialization, Meaning-Making, and Mathematics Identity Among African American Adults and Adolescents</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=24</link>
<author>Danny Bernard Martin, Contra Costa College</author>
<pubDate>3/31/2003</pubDate>
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<title>A STELLAR Course? Teacher Education Within a Socio-Technical Environment For Learning & Learning-Activity Research</title>
<description>A STELLAR Course? Teacher Education Within a Socio-Technical Environment For Learning & Learning-Activity Research</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=25</link>
<author>Sharon J. Derry, University of Wisconsin, Madison</author>
<pubDate>3/28/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding Change in Children's Mathematical Reasoning: Evidence from Gesture and Speech</title>
<description>Understanding Change in Children's Mathematical Reasoning: Evidence from Gesture and Speech</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=26</link>
<author>Martha Alibali, University of Wisconsin, Madison</author>
<pubDate>3/7/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Multimodal Signals in Instructional Communication: The Importance of Gesture for Teachers and Students</title>
<description>Multimodal Signals in Instructional Communication: The Importance of Gesture for Teachers and Students</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=27</link>
<author>Martha Alibali, University of Wisconsin, Madison</author>
<pubDate>3/6/2003</pubDate>
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<title>The Design Challenges of Modeling Reading Comprehension Across School Subject Matters for Struggling Secondary School Readers: Cultural Modeling's Response</title>
<description>The Design Challenges of Modeling Reading Comprehension Across School Subject Matters for Struggling Secondary School Readers: Cultural Modeling's Response</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=28</link>
<author>Carol Lee, Northwestern University</author>
<pubDate>2/28/2003</pubDate>
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<title>Cognitive Models and Instructional Design</title>
<description>Cognitive Models and Instructional Design</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=29</link>
<author>Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University</author>
<pubDate>10/4/2002</pubDate>
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<title>Cognitive Tutors: Bringing Learning Research to the Classroom</title>
<description>Cognitive Tutors: Bringing Learning Research to the Classroom</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=30</link>
<author>Ken Koedinger, Carnegie Mellon University</author>
<pubDate>10/3/2002</pubDate>
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<title>The Role of Teacher, Text, and Experience Mediating Young Children's Engagement & Learning in Inquiry-based Science Instruction</title>
<description>The Role of Teacher, Text, and Experience Mediating Young Children's Engagement & Learning in Inquiry-based Science Instruction</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=31</link>
<author>Annemarie Palincsar, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>9/19/2002</pubDate>
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<title>A Taxonomic Trek: From Student Learning to Faculty Scholarship</title>
<description>A Taxonomic Trek: From Student Learning to Faculty Scholarship</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=32</link>
<author>Lee S. Shulman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching</author>
<pubDate>4/25/2002</pubDate>
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<title>The New Instructional Leadership: Creating Data-Driven Instructional Systems in Schools</title>
<description>The New Instructional Leadership: Creating Data-Driven Instructional Systems in Schools</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=33</link>
<author>Richard Halverson</author>
<pubDate>9/16/2005</pubDate>
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<title>Design of learning environments and roles for technology</title>
<description>Design of learning environments and roles for technology</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=34</link>
<author>Yvonne Rogers</author>
<pubDate>10/20/2005</pubDate>
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<title>Scaffolding Students in Writing Evidence-Based Scientific Explanations</title>
<description>Scaffolding Students in Writing Evidence-Based Scientific Explanations</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=35</link>
<author>Joe Krajcik, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>1/27/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Closing the Participation Gap</title>
<description>Closing the Participation Gap</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=37</link>
<author>Nicole Pinkard</author>
<pubDate>3/17/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Telling, adapting, and performing stories: How literacy meets identity </title>
<description>Telling, adapting, and performing stories: How literacy meets identity </description>
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<author>Erica Halverson</author>
<pubDate>9/15/2005</pubDate>
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<title>Race, Identity, and Mathematics Literacy: African American Counternarratives</title>
<description>Race, Identity, and Mathematics Literacy: African American Counternarratives</description>
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<author>Danny Martin</author>
<pubDate>1/12/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Serious play: A comparative study of engagement and learning in hobby practices</title>
<description>Serious play: A comparative study of engagement and learning in hobby practices</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=42</link>
<author>Flavio Azevedo, University of California Santa Cruz</author>
<pubDate>2/13/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Decisions, Decisions: Assessing Students' and Preservice Teachers' Use of Scientific Evidence </title>
<description>Decisions, Decisions: Assessing Students' and Preservice Teachers' Use of Scientific Evidence </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=43</link>
<author>Marcelle Siegel, UC San Francisco</author>
<pubDate>2/20/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Learning to reason with visual data</title>
<description>Learning to reason with visual data</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=44</link>
<author>Josh Radinsky, University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Education</author>
<pubDate>2/22/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Conceptions of Multidigit Whole Numbers</title>
<description>Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Conceptions of Multidigit Whole Numbers</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=45</link>
<author>Eva Thanheiser, San Diego State University</author>
<pubDate>2/14/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Enhancing Science Education with Novel Approaches to the Design of Visualization Tools </title>
<description>Enhancing Science Education with Novel Approaches to the Design of Visualization Tools </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=46</link>
<author>Mike Stieff, University of California - Davis</author>
<pubDate>2/28/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Problems with Context: The Curricular Effects of Infusing Sociopolitical Themes into Secondary Mathematics </title>
<description>Problems with Context: The Curricular Effects of Infusing Sociopolitical Themes into Secondary Mathematics </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=47</link>
<author>Andrew Brantlinger, Northwestern University</author>
<pubDate>2/21/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Understanding the teacher-text relationship: Using mathematics curriculum materials to support teacher learning </title>
<description>Understanding the teacher-text relationship: Using mathematics curriculum materials to support teacher learning </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=48</link>
<author>Alison Castro</author>
<pubDate>3/27/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Creating an Assessment of TC Dispositions</title>
<description>Creating an Assessment of TC Dispositions</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=49</link>
<author>Eleni Katsarou</author>
<pubDate>5/11/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Field Instructor Research Project - ST2 Debriefing</title>
<description>Field Instructor Research Project - ST2 Debriefing</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=50</link>
<author>Al Bertani, Senior Researcher</author>
<pubDate>5/11/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Supporting the Development of Argumentative Skills</title>
<description>Supporting the Development of Argumentative Skills</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=52</link>
<author>Anne Britt, Northern Illinois University</author>
<pubDate>11/17/2006</pubDate>
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<title>Acts into Artifacts: Computational Tools to Support Experience Capture and Reflection</title>
<description>Acts into Artifacts: Computational Tools to Support Experience Capture and Reflection</description>
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<author>Brian K. Smith, Ph.D.</author>
<pubDate>1/16/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Detecting and Adapting to When Students Game the System</title>
<description>Detecting and Adapting to When Students Game the System</description>
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<author>Ryan S.J.d. Baker, Ph.D, University of Nottingham</author>
<pubDate>1/23/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Practice into Theory: From serious work about learning in classroom environments to serious questions about the playful nature of control and coordination in computing</title>
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<author>Deborah Tatar, Virginia Tech</author>
<pubDate>1/29/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Designing for Learning: Learning about Design, the Interplay between HCI and the Learning Sciences</title>
<description>Designing for Learning: Learning about Design, the Interplay between HCI and the Learning Sciences</description>
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<author>Chris Quintana, University of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>2/7/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Developing assessment for learning with teacher learning communities</title>
<description>Developing assessment for learning with teacher learning communities</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=67</link>
<author>Dylan Williams, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education, University of London</author>
<pubDate>1/26/2007</pubDate>
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<title>When Users Do the Programming: Challenges and Opportunities for End User Software Engineering</title>
<description>When Users Do the Programming: Challenges and Opportunities for End User Software Engineering</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=75</link>
<author>Mary Beth Rosson</author>
<pubDate>11/15/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Modeling Practices with The Geometer's Sketchpad</title>
<description>Modeling Practices with The Geometer's Sketchpad</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=78</link>
<author>Nathalie Sinclair, Professor, Simon Fraser University </author>
<pubDate>10/19/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Learning in Social Interaction</title>
<description>Learning in Social Interaction</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=79</link>
<author>Daniel Schwartz, Professor, Stanford University</author>
<pubDate>10/26/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Using Multiple Methods to Assess and Improve Problem Solving</title>
<description>Using Multiple Methods to Assess and Improve Problem Solving</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=80</link>
<author>Melanie Cooper, Professor, Clemson University</author>
<pubDate>10/9/2007</pubDate>
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<title>External and Internal Perspectives on Dynamic Geometry Software</title>
<description>External and Internal Perspectives on Dynamic Geometry Software</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=81</link>
<author>Nicholas Jackiw, Chief Technology Officer, KCP Technologies</author>
<pubDate>10/18/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Connecting Writing and Learning as Situated Practice</title>
<description>Connecting Writing and Learning as Situated Practice</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=82</link>
<author> Ann Feldman, Department of English (UIC) </author>
<pubDate>10/22/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Design Research from the Bottom Up: New Infrastructure for School Reform</title>
<description>Design Research from the Bottom Up: New Infrastructure for School Reform</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=83</link>
<author>Ben Shapiro, Northwestern University</author>
<pubDate>12/3/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Playing Together at the Museum: Preliminary Results on Factors Affecting Participation in a Multi-User Software-Based Exhibit</title>
<description>Playing Together at the Museum: Preliminary Results on Factors Affecting Participation in a Multi-User Software-Based Exhibit</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=84</link>
<author>Leilah Lyons, Univ of Michigan</author>
<pubDate>12/6/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Supporting Learning about Games</title>
<description>Supporting Learning about Games</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=85</link>
<author>José Zagal, Georgia Tech</author>
<pubDate>12/11/2007</pubDate>
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<title>Improving Science Teaching and Learning for Native American Children through Community Based Design: Investigating Impacts of Relational Epistemologies.</title>
<description>Improving Science Teaching and Learning for Native American Children through Community Based Design: Investigating Impacts of Relational Epistemologies.</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=87</link>
<author>Megan Bang</author>
<pubDate>3/3/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Language, Identity, & Classroom Learning: Understanding how language and Science learning intersect.</title>
<description>Language, Identity, & Classroom Learning: Understanding how language and Science learning intersect.</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=88</link>
<author>Dr. Bryan Brown</author>
<pubDate>4/21/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Joint LS / Chemistry Seminar</title>
<description>Joint LS / Chemistry Seminar</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=89</link>
<author>Shawn Stevens</author>
<pubDate>2/25/2008</pubDate>
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<title>The Role of Language in Learning Physics</title>
<description>The Role of Language in Learning Physics</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=90</link>
<author>David Brookes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</author>
<pubDate>3/3/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Public engagement with science – new perspective, new approach </title>
<description>Public engagement with science – new perspective, new approach </description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=91</link>
<author>Noah Feinstein</author>
<pubDate>3/11/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Learning and teaching science across contexts: Bridging the informal and formal</title>
<description>Learning and teaching science across contexts: Bridging the informal and formal</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=92</link>
<author>Nick Stroud</author>
<pubDate>3/6/2008</pubDate>
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<title>“What you do when you don’t know what to do: Metacognition in Chemistry Problem Solving”</title>
<description>“What you do when you don’t know what to do: Metacognition in Chemistry Problem Solving”</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=93</link>
<author>Santiago Sandi-Ureña, Clemson University</author>
<pubDate>3/19/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Examining the Role of Cognitive Load and Problem Difficulty in Introductory Chemistry Problems</title>
<description>Examining the Role of Cognitive Load and Problem Difficulty in Introductory Chemistry Problems</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=94</link>
<author>Norb Pienta, Department of Chemistry and Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Iowa</author>
<pubDate>4/15/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Language, Identity, & Classroom Learning: Understanding how language and science learning intersect</title>
<description>Language, Identity, & Classroom Learning: Understanding how language and science learning intersect</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=118</link>
<author>Bryan A. Brown</author>
<pubDate>4/21/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Privileging mathematics and equity in teacher preparation: rethinking mathematics  methods courses to advance marginalized youth in mathematics education</title>
<description>Privileging mathematics and equity in teacher preparation: rethinking mathematics  methods courses to advance marginalized youth in mathematics education</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=119</link>
<author>Julia Aguirre, University of Washington - Tacoma</author>
<pubDate>2/9/2008</pubDate>
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<title>Commonsense Knowledge, Commonsense Reasoning</title>
<description>Commonsense Knowledge, Commonsense Reasoning</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=121</link>
<author>Gyorgy Turan, UIC Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science</author>
<pubDate>3/13/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Literacy in the 21st Century:  Recognizing the Challenges, Creating Solutions</title>
<description>Literacy in the 21st Century:  Recognizing the Challenges, Creating Solutions</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=122</link>
<author>Susan Goldman, Co-Director of LSRI; Distinguished Professor in Psychology and Education </author>
<pubDate>3/16/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Argumentation and Proof: Continuity or distance?</title>
<description>Argumentation and Proof: Continuity or distance?</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=124</link>
<author>Bettina Pedemonte</author>
<pubDate>4/3/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Identifying the Practices of Scientific Reasoning for   Purposes of Instruction and Instantiating them in Specific Disciplines</title>
<description>Identifying the Practices of Scientific Reasoning for   Purposes of Instruction and Instantiating them in Specific Disciplines</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=132</link>
<author>Jim Pellegrino, Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute</author>
<pubDate>4/10/2009</pubDate>
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<title>“Scientific Teaching”:  Experience at the  National Academies Summer Research Institute</title>
<description>“Scientific Teaching”:  Experience at the  National Academies Summer Research Institute</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=133</link>
<author>Michael Muller and Robert Malchow</author>
<pubDate>11/12/2009</pubDate>
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<title>Curriculum & Instruction and LSRI Sponsoring</title>
<description>Curriculum & Instruction and LSRI Sponsoring</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=134</link>
<author>Dr.Melissa Gresalfi, Indiana University</author>
<pubDate>1/28/2010</pubDate>
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<title>TBD</title>
<description>TBD</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=135</link>
<author>Reed Stevens (Northwestern University)</author>
<pubDate>2/11/2010</pubDate>
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<title>TBD</title>
<description>TBD</description>
<link>http://www.lsri.uic.edu/newsevents/speakers1.asp?id=136</link>
<author>Michelle Williams (Michigan State)</author>
<pubDate>3/18/2010</pubDate>
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