By Laurel White Teaching people how to spot and outsmart a particularly tricky form of misinformation online is at the heart of new UW-Madison research recently funded by the National Science Foundation. The research, led by Martina Rau, will focus on visual misinformation — specifically, misinformation presented online in graphs. Rau, an associate professor with the …
By Kari Dickinson On Tuesday, July 12, children with disabilities in the No Limits Kids Fitness program experienced the freedom of biking in a special event using adapted bikes on loan from Project Mobility in St. Charles, Illinois. The theme for the day was “Iron Kids.” No Limits Kids Fitness is a summer program that is hosted by Adapted …
By WCER Communications The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) is thrilled to announce that its ONPAR (Obtaining Necessary Parity Through Academic Rigor) team is one of only 30 projects worldwide to win a prize in the 2021-22 Learning Engineering Tools Competition, becoming eligible to share $4 million to develop improved educational technology tools potentially impacting …
By Kari Dickinson The first major retrospective of work by UW–Madison’s Tom Jones, an award-winning contemporary photographer and professor of photography in the School of Education’s Art Department, will be on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art (MOWA) in West Bend, Wisconsin, from July 23 – Oct. 9. Titled “Here We Stand,” the exhibition features 120 photographs from …
Three individuals with ties to the UW–Madison School of Education have been named to the fifth cohort of Morgridge Fellows. They are: The 14 fellows — from across the campus community — were selected through a juried process to participate in a year-long learning community designed to further institutionalize and support community-engaged scholarship. Community-engaged scholarship is defined …
UW–Madison student Janel Anderson has been selected to attend the Philosophical Perspectives on Care Institute from July 12 – 29 at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Anderson is a PhD student in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA). The institute, which has been made possible in part by a major grant from the …
Would you like to improve classroom discussions to better engage students and help them learn your course content and skills? A three-day professional learning opportunity for UW–Madison instructors, The Discussion Project focuses on developing skills in leading high-quality, small- and large-group discussion in undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The course is also part of the Discussion Project Measures …
The UW–Madison School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) hosted a festschrift on June 3 to honor longtime faculty members Julie Mead and Julie Underwood (“the Julies”) on the occasion of their retirements. A festschrift is a collection of work by different authors presented in honor of a scholar. Instead of …
UW–Madison’s David Kaplan, the Patricia Busk Professor of Quantitative Methods in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was named an international guest professor and will spend three months at the Institute für Bildungswissenshaft (Institute for Education Science) at Heidelberg University in Germany. The professorship is part of the project “Expanding Internationality,” a component of the university’s Excellence …
By Karen Rivedal, WCER Communications Congratulations to Shahanna McKinney-Baldon and Annalee Good of the Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative (WEC), housed in the School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, for receiving a $115,000 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Project Grant for their proposal to help youth better lead improvements in their schools and neighborhoods. “Our K–12 schools require change driven by those closest to the …