Re: [xmca] Call for Nominations: 2009 Jan Hawkins Award due Feb 6

["Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks Noel-

How about nominating XMCA?
:-)
mike

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Noel Enyedy <enyedy@gseis.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Please consider nominating a colleague or yourself.
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> Call for Nominations: 2009 Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions
> to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies, AERA Div. C
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> Nominations are now open for the 2009 Jan Hawkins Award
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> SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 6th, 2009
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> Dr. Jan Hawkins (1952-1999) was a developmental psychologist with a
> cognitive, cultural, and social-interactionist orientation, and was well
> known for her respectful, humanistic conceptions of appropriate roles for
> using technology in K-12 learning environments.  Her work illustrates the
> balance that can be achieved in recognizing the innovative, emergent
> properties of new technologies while simultaneously respecting the
> individuals and conditions of the learning environments in which these new
> technologies are being used.  She also was concerned with how complex social
> systems interact with emerging technologies to provide or prevent access to
> information for various groups of people based on gender, race, and cultural
> and ethnic background.  Her work helped researchers, practitioners, and
> policy makes alike to think critically about technologies and learning,
> encouraging them not to seek out technology as a panacea or avoid it as a
> deterministic influence.  She was also exemplary in her nurturing of young
> research scholars in learning technologies, and has been a model for them
> through her research and leadership.
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> This award recognizes an early-career individual or small collaborative
> team that is engaged in research that combines practice and advocacy.  While
> research must play a central, informative role in the work of the nominee,
> the nominated individual or group may include practitioners, directors of
> innovative educational programs or individuals in informal or
> non-traditional educational environments.
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> The award is intended to recognize a body of work that:
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> - explores and demonstrates powerful new ways to think about technologies
> in contexts of learning and education, and uses innovative research methods
> to understand the impact of those technologies.
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> - places young people and/or practicing educators at the center of the
> problem-solving process by making their meaning-making process, their needs
> and constraints, and their priorities central to the project
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> - strikes an effective balance between innovation -- inventing new
> approaches to K-12 learning with technologies -- and understanding --
> examining existing educational environments and changes that occur when
> technologies are introduced
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> - uses technology to bring about broad improvements in educational systems
> with a focus on issues of diversity, equity, and learning for all.
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> Nomination Process and Award Information
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> The Jan Hawkins Award of Division C of the American Educational Research
> Association is given for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research
> and Scholarship in Learning Technologies. The award is an early-career
> contribution with the above orientations and as such will emphasize
> recognition for those individuals who are at the pre-tenure stage in
> academic careers, or pre-tenure-level equivalents in non-university
> contexts). The award carries a stipend of $500, a plaque, and the
> opportunity to present a talk at the award session at AERA in the following
> year.
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> Any member of Division C may make a nomination, including self-nominations.
>  The recipient(s) of the award need not belong to Division C.
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> The nomination process includes the following information:
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> (1) LETTER: A nomination letter introducing the nominee or small team,
> detailing how this nominee's work relates to the themes identified above
> (including how the work combines research and advocacy).
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> (2) VITA: The vita of the nominee (for individual nominations) or a
> description of the team,  its history, and a vita for team members (for
> small group nominations).
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> (3) REPRESENTATIVE WORK:  One to three examples of work (research papers,
> publications, or other forms of professional work) that demonstrate the key
> contributions of the nominee's recent research. For a small group, the
> examples of representative work should consist of collaborative work
> authored by the team.
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> Please assemble and submit these materials in one of the following ways
> (electronic nominations only):
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> - A web portfolio with links to the nominating letter, vita, and work. (The
> reviewers will use links to web sites as illustrations and will not
> extensively explore websites unless there are clear indications of how the
> sites relate to the program of research of the nominee.)  Be sure to send
> the chairs an email note informing them of the nomination and that the web
> portfolio is complete.
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> - Attached electronic materials in commonly shared formats (MS-WORD, PDF,
> JPG, GIF, etc) sent though email.
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> The submission deadline is Friday February 6th, 2009.  Please send all
> electronic nominations (including self-nominations) to this year's
> co-chairs, Barry Fishman <fishman@umich.edu>  and Noel Enyedy <
> enyedy@gseis.ucla.edu> with "Jan Hawkins Award" in the subject header.
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> Director of Research, University Elementary School
> University of California at Los Angeles
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