Dr. Alexander Karp is a full professor in the Mathematics Education program, in the Mathematics, Science, and Technology Department. Although traveling a lot, throughout his life he has lived for a long time in two places only: in St. Petersburg, Russia, where he was born and raised, and in New York. As a child he [...]
The Science and Dental Medicine Master of Arts program is the newest addition to the Science Education program at Teachers College. The 32-point M.A. degree in Science and Dental Education serves students whose professional interests are centered in the enhancement of teaching and learning in the fields of oral and dental surgery; based on scientific [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dr. Renhong Wang, an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Science Education program, grew up in China and lived there until 1988. As a child in China he worked very hard as a student and really enjoyed school. Dr. Wang wanted to learn everything and even tried to finish the next semester’s coursework during the summer [...]
After over 40 years of teaching at Teachers College, Robbie McClintock, the John L. and Sue Ann Weinberg Professor in the Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education, is retiring this semester. Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, just across the Delaware near Princeton, he reflects on his childhood as pleasant and semi-rural. During [...]
Professor Lalitha Vasudevan, Ahram Park, and Ronny Bernstein are the brilliant minds behind Teachers College’s Social Issue Media Festival (SIMF) that took place on May 6, 2010. Professor Vasudevan, a faculty member in the Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education Program, has been aware of and involved with social issues media through the Media That [...]
Dr. Howie Budin remembers his first interaction with technology in the classroom vividly. “A computer showed up in ‘78, an Apple II…We had no idea what to do with it. Old Apples had one disk drive and no complex operating system, so any time you operated a program it was from disk.” Students played [...]
The Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology is proud to welcome new faculty member Dr. Joey Lee to the Communication, Computing and Technology in Education Program. His research interests explore identity, culture, and video games as designed spaces for learning. “I hope to launch a research trajectory around games for change or games for good. [...]
Educator, artist, researcher, and vocalist, Dr. Taylor is a modern-day renaissance man. His art proudly displayed in the Academic Computing offices and all around CCTE, Dr. Taylor is an integral part of the TC community. He was a founding faculty member of the CCTE program and continues to be an impassioned advocate for technology in [...]