A new paper, titled Integrating generative AI in knowledge building has been accepted for publication in Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence.
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The Penn GSE Wonder Lab reimagines learning and teaching in the knowledge society.
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 authentic educational settings. The central question we ask is:
How can we better support human wonderment in various contexts of learning?
News
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06 November 2023
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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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06 October 2023
A new paper, titled Beyond reading together: Facilitating knowledge construction through participation roles and social annotation in college classrooms has been accepted for publication in The Internet and Higher Education.
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10 June 2023
A new paper, titled Understanding Idea Creation in Collaborative Discourse Through Networks: The Joint Attention–Interaction–Creation (AIC) Framework was presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) in Montreal.
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29 September 2022
Xinran Zhu, Ph.D. candidate, has received a research grant from Social Science Research Council (supported by The Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science), as a co-PI. The awarded project aims to examine factors that drive inter-institutional collaboration in the field of computational social science towards knowledge advancement, by constructing collaboration networks and investigating longitudinal network evolution via network modeling.
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People
Graduate Students
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Xinran Zhu
PhD Candidate in LST
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Hong Shui
PhD Candidate
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Basel Hussein
PhD student
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Xiping Jiang
MSEd student
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Keerthanya Rajesh
MSEd student
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Vivian Leung
MSEd student
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Pingting Chen
MSEd student
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Emily Yan
MSEd student
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Robert Kreml
PhD candidate
Developers
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Benji Encalada Mora
Lead Software Engineer
Former Members
- Zixi Chen Postdoc; now assistant professor at NYU Shanghai
- Mengchen Su Postdoc; now Research Scientist at UMN
- Yu-Hui Chang PhD in LT; now Assistant Professor at National Sun Yat-sen University
- Rukmini Manasa PhD student in LT
- Shan Yu PhD candidate in Design
- Wenjing Chen MEd graduate in LT
- William Batu M.S. student in CS
- Ethan Brown PhD in EdPsy
- Huanqing Wu Visiting scholar from Qufu Normal University
- Fan Ouyang Learning Technologies
- Xing Liu Master's graduate in Financial Math
- Wanying Zhou Undergrad in Psychology
- Tianhui Huang Visiting scholar from Fudan U
- Yizhou Fan Visiting scholar from Peking U
- Jonathan Shoberg Computer Science
- Mustafa Serkan Günbatar Associate Professor, Van Yüzüncü Yıl University
- David Groos MPS Science Teacher
- Craig Karlen SPPS Science Teacher
- Daniel Weyandt SPPS Science Teacher
Funding
Our work is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Schmidt Futures, Carina Initiatives, and other funding agencies.