Disciplinary Interests: Critical Thinking
Peter J. Taylor
Collaborative Exploration of Scientific and Social Change, Project-based learning in graduate education, Heterogeneity and control in the biomedical sciences
Peter Taylor is a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he teaches and directs undergraduate and graduate programs on critical thinking, reflective practice, and science-in-society. His research and writing focuses on the complexity of environmental and health sciences in their social context, incl. Unruly Complexity: Ecology, Interpretation, Engagement (U. Chicago Press, 2005).
Laura Kingery
I am an instructor at Daymar Institute in Clarksville, TN
Sharon Weiner
American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, American Educational Research Association, Indiana Library Federation, Medical Library Association
Sharon A. Weiner is a Professor of Library Science and holds the position of W. Wayne Booker Chair in Information Literacy at Purdue University. She is Vice-President of the National Forum on Information Literacy
Mary G. Filice
National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/Midwest (NATAS), Independent Feature Project (IFP), Association of Women Journalists (AWJ), Convergence Chicago
Researching the impact of media convergence and mutlitasking on student learning and critical thinking. Chosen as a National CASTL Institute scholar (June 2009) focusing on this reserach., Conducting a break-out session at the 29th International Critical Thinking Conference (July 2009): Truthiness, Trust, and Technology: Critical Thinking in the Age of Convergence., Conduct a series of media literacy workshops for Split Pillow, an alternative filmmaking cooperative., Developing a multiplatform "film" based on August Strindberg's one-act The Stronger.
Mary Filice is tenure-track faculty and coordinator of the Media Concentration of the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management Department, Columbia College Chicago. As an independent filmmaker and consultant Mary recently assisted Percolator Films (formerly Reetime Film and Video Forum) on their first film festival, The Talking Pictures Festival, which took place in Evanston, IL May 1-3. Mary is also a media literacy advocate conducting a series of media literacy/filmmaking workshops for middle-school children in conjunction with the alternative filmmaking group Split Pillow. Mary has a MA in Film/Video from Columbia College and BA in Theater from Loyola University.
Corinne E. Blackmer
A cultural history of LGBT Jews in American Judaism ("I Believe with a Perfect Faith"), Privacy, History, Price Discrimination, Sexual Orientation: the Queering of Public Higher Education, Invasion of Privacy, Student Tracking, Internet Gossip, and Jewish Ethics of Speech, Homophobia and Antisemitism on the Web: The Rebirth of Old Seductions
Professor of English, specializing in the Hebrew Bible, American literature, and LGBT Studies.
Bonnie T. Long
ISTE: International Society for Technology in Education, ILTA: Irish Learning Technology Association, CESI: Computer Education Society of Ireland
Doctoral Thesis, in progress., Title: Digital Storytelling and Meaning Making: Critical Reflection, Creativity and Technology in Pre-service Teacher Education. Description: This thesis will investigate the potential of Digital Storytelling as a technology enhanced learning process for pre-service teachers and as a method of enhancing student teachers’ ability to be reflective practitioners.
Bonnie Long is currently a doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is researching the use of digital storytelling with pre-service teachers to enhance reflection on practice.
Anthony Ciccone
Exploring the impact of the scholarship of teaching and learning on institutional priorities, Student reflection and its relationship to student learning
Anthony Ciccone (Tony) is past Director of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He directs the Center for Instructional and Professional Development at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Popa Daniela
Daniela Popa is assist.univ.of Pedagogy at Transilvania University
Ellen L Nuffer
developing hybrid course modules for Master's in Education program, creating video podcasts on current news items related to education, developing a wiki on History and Foundations of Education, teaching cross disciplinary courses that develop critical thinking and writing skills in first year students
Ellen L. Nuffer, Ed.D., is a school psychologist and Professor of Education at Keene State College, a public liberal arts college in New Hampshire.
Colette Wanless-Sobel
American Studies Association, Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, International Society for Intellectual History, Association of Internet Researchers
Colette Wanless-Sobel has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Minnesota Her research interests lie in intellectual history, specifically, gender and sexuality, cyber culture, and distance education.
