15 October 2024
Lab director Bodong Chen presented an invited lecture titled Epistemic Agency and Infrastructure in the GenAI Era at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
About
The Wonder Lab strives to support human wonderment
in authentic contexts of learning.
As an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, we design technology-enhanced learning environments, develop learning analytics applications, and conduct empirical research in various educational settings.
News
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30 September 2024
The Knowledge Building Innovation Network project kicked-off its second year! The first workshop was attended by 150 educators and researchers.
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10 September 2024
Lab director Bodong Chen presented on the AI and Impact panel at the 23rd Annual ‘Back to School’ Summit in New York City.
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15 June 2024
Lab members Xinran Zhu, Hong Shui, and Bodong Chen presented at the 2024 Learning Sciences Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY. Check out our work: Bridging Social Annotation Practice with Perspectives from the Learning Sciences and CSCL, Knowledge Building and Generative AI to Advance Community Knowledge, Supporting Learning Pathways of Justice-Oriented Data Science in Secondary Science and History Classes: Teachers’ Perspectives, and Evaluating Metaspace as an Infrastructure for Teacher Cross-Community Collaboration in Knowledge Building.
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28 March 2024
A new paper, titled A framework for infrastructuring sustainable innovations in education has been published online in Journal of the Learning Sciences.
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People
Graduate Students
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Basel Hussein
PhD Candidate
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Jiayu Cheng
PhD student
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Yuwei Liang
PhD student
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Vivian Leung
MSEd
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Amanda Tran
MSEd student
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Emily Yan
MSEd student
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Chen Wang
Instructional Technologist
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Kexin Chen
MSEd student
Developers
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Benji Encalada Mora
Lead Software Engineer
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Wenxi Chen
Developer
Visiting Scholars
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Lee, Vwen Yen Alwyn
Research Scientist at National Institute of Education, Singapore
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Simone Luchini
PhD student at PSU
Faculty
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Bodong Chen
Associate Professor
Former Members
- Xinran Zhu PhD --> assistant prof at UIUC
- Hong Shui PhD
- Zixi Chen Postdoc --> assistant professor at NYU Shanghai
- Mengchen Su Postdoc --> Research Scientist at UMN
- Pingting Chen MSEd
- Xiping Jiang MSEd --> PhD student at UT-Austin
- Keerthanya Rajesh MSEd --> Research Analyst at Research for Action
- Yu-Hui Chang PhD --> Assistant Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University
- Rukmini Manasa PhD --> Research Associate at UIC
- Fan Ouyang PhD --> faculty at Zhejiang University
- Wenjing Chen MEd
- William Batu M.S. student in CS
- Huanqing Wu Visiting scholar from Qufu Normal University
- Wanying Zhou Undergrad in Psychology --> Master's student at Penn
- Tianhui Huang Visiting scholar --> faculty at Yunnan University
- Yizhou Fan Visiting scholar --> faculty at Peking University
- Mustafa Serkan Günbatar Visiting scholar, Associate Professor at Van Yüzüncü Yıl University
Funding
Our work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Schmidt Futures, Carina Initiatives, and other funding agencies.
