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 | ABOUT WIDE: Staff |
Principal Investigators
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David Perkins
Principal Investigator
David Perkins, together with Martha Stone Wiske, is one of the two founders and academic directors of WIDE World. They join with executive director David Zarowin to lead the initiative. David Perkins is a senior professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and also co-director for three decades and now senior co-director of Harvard Project Zero, a research and development group at the Graduate School of Education active since 1967.
Earlier, David Perkins was one of the key researchers to develop the Teaching for Understanding model that provides the basis for WIDE World pedagogy and also significant content in several of its courses. More generally, he has sustained lines of research, writing, and program development in areas such as teaching and learning for understanding, creative and critical thinking, organizational learning, cognition in the arts, and the role of technology in education. He is the author of The Eureka Effect, Smart Schools, Outsmarting IQ, Knowledge as Design, King Arthur's Round Table, and several other books as well as many articles.
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Martha Stone Wiske
Principal Investigator
Martha Stone Wiske, together with David Perkins, is one of the two founders and academic directors of WIDE World. Stone is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she has been teaching and conducting collaborative projects with schools for a quarter of a century! Beginning in 1983, she worked at Harvard's Educational Technology Center, a collaborative research center focused on integrating computers in schools to improve education. In the 1990's, along with colleagues in schools and at Harvard, she worked on a project that developed the Teaching for Understanding framework, a clear and coherent model for improving students' performance. She combined these strands of work in developing the Education with New Technologies (ENT) website at http://learnweb.harvard.edu.
WIDE World arose out of these activities, taking advantage of the Internet as a means of helping large numbers of teachers make use of research on effective teaching strategies. Stone is involved in many facets of WIDE World; she developed and taught one of the online courses, she participates in overall planning for the project, and assists in the continual process of assessing and improving the design of WIDE World programs. She continues to teach and conduct research on the creation and assessment of online learning environments and activities, and the development of networked communities of practice. Her special interests include the integration of new technologies and the incorporation of learner-centered teaching for understanding into educational settings, including schools, universities, and other settings. She is the author of Teaching for Understanding with Technology, the editor of Teaching for Understanding: Linking Research with Practice, and is cofounder of the international journal ECi (Education, Communication, and Information).
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