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.
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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15 June 2024
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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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25 March 2024
The 2nd GenAI-KB Design Jam is launched! This virtual event aims to create innovative solutions to the challenges faced in KB classrooms. It will continue into June 2024 and is co-facilitated by Lydia Cao (University of Toronto), Xinran Zhu (UPenn), and Bodong Chen (UPenn).
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06 November 2023
A new paper, titled Integrating generative AI in knowledge building has been accepted for publication in Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence.
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15 October 2023
A poster, titled The Synthesis Lab: Empowering Collaborative Learning in Higher Education through Knowledge Synthesis was presented at the 2023 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) in Minneapolis.
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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.