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.
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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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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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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People
Faculty
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Bodong Chen
Associate Professor
Graduate Students
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Basel Hussein
PhD Candidate
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Yuwei Liang
PhD student
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Jiayu Cheng
PhD student
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Vivian Leung
MSEd
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Emily Yan
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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Simone Luchini
PhD student at PSU
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Lee, Vwen Yen Alwyn
Research Scientist at National Institute of Education, Singapore
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
- 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.
