Publications and Presentations

 

2011


Novellis, F.& Moher, T. (2011). AquaRoom: Designing Tangibles and Props to Engage Young Learners in a Full Body Learning Experience. Proceedings of the 10th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children (Ann Arbor, MI, June 20 - 23, 2011). IDC '11. ACM, New York, NY (to appear).


Moher, T., Slotta, J., & Gnoli, A. (2011). Embedded phenomena: Rethinking technology support for complex collaborative activity structures in classrooms. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.


Jaeger, A., Wiley, J., Moher, T., López Silva, B., & Novellis, F. Embedded Simulations Support Learning in Geoscience. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.


Novellis, F.& Moher, T. (2011). AquaRoom: A Pilot Study of a Classroom-Based Investigation of Subterranean Water Flow. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New Orleans, LA, April 8 - 12, 2011). AERA 2011.



2010


Moher, T., Wiley, J., Jaeger, A., Lopez Silva, B., Novellis, F., and Kilb, D. (2010). Spatial and Temporal Embedding for Science Inquiry: An Empirical Study of Student Learning. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences. June 2010, Chicago, IL, Vol. 1, 826-833.


Kilb, D. L., Moher, T., Wiley, J. (2010). It’s our fault: Immersing young learners in authentic practices of seismology. In Proceedings American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #ED51A-0520.


2009


Moher, T. (2009). Putting interference to work in the design of a whole-class learning activity. In Proceedings of the 8th international Conference on Interaction Design and Children (Como, Italy, June 03 - 05, 2009). IDC '09. ACM, New York, NY, 115-122.


Antle, A., Kynigos, C., Lyons, L., Marshall, P., Moher, T., and Roussou, M. (2009). Manifesting Embodiment: Designers’ Variations on a Theme. In Community Events Proceedings Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices (Rhodes, Greece, June 08 - 13, 2009). CSCL ’09. ISLS, 15-17.


Moher, T., López Silva, B., Daly, S., and Bernasconi, M. (2009). Response Characteristics of Middle School Learners’ Critiques of Nanoscale Representations. In Proceedings 2009 Annual Conference of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching (Garden Grove, CA, April 17 - 21, 2009). NARST 2009. 13 pp (CD Proceedings).


Jaeger, A., Moher, T., Wiley, J., Malcolm, P., López Silva, B., Gnoli, A., and Brown, J. (2009). WallCology: Using Embedded Phenomena to Motivate Learning About Dynamic Ecosystems. Symposium presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13 - 17, 2009). AERA 2009.


López Silva, B., Bernasconi, M., Abuhabsah, A., and Moher, T. (2009). Introducing Nanoscale Phenomena to Middle School Learners Using a DNA Design Activity. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (San Diego, CA, April 13 - 17, 2009). AERA 2009.


2008


Moher, T. (2008). Learning and participation in a persistent whole-classroom seismology simulation. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 2 (Utrech, Netherlands, June 23 - 28, 2008). ICLS 2008. ISLS, 82-90.


Pellegrino, J., Krajcik, J., Stevens, S., Swarat, S., Shin, N., Delgado, C., Moher, T., Shipley, E., Szeto, A., Song, M., Cahill, C., Bodner, G., Daly, S., Drane, D., Geier, S., Hagedorn, E.,

Lauhon, L., Light, G., López Silva, B., Quintana, C., Park, E., Unterman, N., and Wischow, E. (2008). Using Construct-Centered Design to Align Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Development in Emerging Science. In Proceedings International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 3 (Utrech, Netherlands, June 23 - 28. 2008). ICLS 2008. ISLS, 82-90.


Malcolm, P., Moher, T., Bhatt, D., Uphoff, B., and López Silva, B. (2008). Embodying scientific concepts in the physical space of the classroom. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on interaction Design and Children (Chicago, Illinois, June 11 - 13, 2008). IDC '08. ACM, New York, NY, 234-241.


Moher, T., Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., López Silva, B., and Malcolm, P. (2008). WallCology: designing interaction affordances for learner engagement in authentic science inquiry. In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 163-172.


López Silva, B., Anggoro, F., Bernasconi, M., and Moher, T. (2008). How to 'Catch' a Virus: Representational Affordances in a Middle-School Introduction to Nanoscale Self-Assembly. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.


Uphoff, B., Bhatt, D., López Silva, B., Frack, Malcolm, P., Cain, V., and Moher, T. (2008). WallCology: Studying Ecology using a Distributed, Persistent Virtual Ecosystem in the Classroom. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.


Shipley, E., Moher, T., and López Silva, B. (2008). Instructional Framing for Nanoscale Self-Assembly Design in Middle School: A Pilot Study. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association (New York, NY, March 24 - 28, 2008). AERA 2008.


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