MST Times

Dr. Tiffany DeJaynes, Communication and Education, 2010, focused her doctoral research on adolescent literacies through the lens of multimodal pedagogies and digital technologies.  Before attending Teachers College, Dr. DeJaynes, a native of Kansas City, MO, earned an M.A. in English in Language, Literature, and Composition from the University of Kansas. Currently, she teaches qualitative research [...]

A 9/11 film’s elegiac tone resonates with those still coping with the emotional remnants of a historic tragedy. by Dino Sossi The arc of news-driven, mass media narratives regretfully tends to mimic the form of the tragedies they cover. Intense in coverage. Short in duration. And unfortunately, after the incident mercifully settles down, sometimes are [...]

Tatyana Dvorkin, current Communication, Computing and Technology in Education (CCTE) student in Instructional Technology and Media M.A. program. She was born in Kharkov, Ukraine. She came to the United States when she was eleven years of age. Tatyana graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2009, with a B.A. in [...]

Dr. Mathangi Subramanian, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Communication, Computing and Technology (CCTE) in Education program, teaching TV and the Development of Youth, and have taught Human and Social Dimensions of Peace. She is also a Teachers College graduate of the CCTE doctoral program, Ed.D. 2010, where Professor Lalitha Vasudevan and Professor Ellen Meier [...]

Educational technology has been available for over thirty years, but schools have proved remarkably resistant to using these new tools.  The Technology Specialist K-12 Certification is one of the newest MA programs offered by CCTE.  It prepares candidates to help K-12 school personnel integrate technology in their classrooms to promote student understanding. Students in this [...]

The Magical Journey of Dr. Yoo Kyung Chang CCTE’s newest faculty member recounts her circuitous path from Korea all the way to Teachers College. Professor Yoo Kyung Chang has led a life on the move. Communication, Computing and Technology in Education’s (CCTE) newest full-time lecturer is originally from Seoul, South Korea. She earned her BA [...]

Ulises Mejias, Communication, Computing and Technology in Education (CCTE) Program graduate, was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. His father is an electronics engineer so he and his brother were exposed to electronics very early on. “We were fortunate in that we had access to videogame systems and computers (I’m talking Atari, Commodore 64, [...]

Once again the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology along with the Department of Human Development, Institute for Learning Technologies and the Office of School and Community Partnerships were pleased to sponsor Scratch Day at TC on May 14th, 2011. Mayokun Aduwo, a Master’s student in the Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education Program, was [...]

By Dino Sossi The Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) held a warm send-off for one of its most respected intellectual leaders Professor Robert “Robbie” McClintock. Celebrating more than 43 years of service and commitment to both Teachers College and the wider Columbia University community, Robbie’s life and work was honored with a lecture, [...]

By Dino Sossi A common complaint regarding academic conferences is their tendency to bring together only people who work within the same discipline. The problem? Group-think. Few truly novel ideas. And a tendency to miss key developments outside that subject area. An answer? The Teachers College Educational Technology Conference (TCETC). “We need this conference because [...]