Undergraduate researchers Katie McCaskey, Sara Bannantine, and Amanda Alegria from my team will be presenting an interactive demo and poster on new activities that seek to ground the meaning of math symbols in experiences of bodily movement and balance (9:30-10:45am in Union South)
Flyer for the UW undergraduate symposium on Friday April 17th at Union South and the Discoveyr Building, 9:30am-5:30pm. More info at ugradsymposium.wisc.edu. The flyer shows the UW Madison logo and a woman gesturing to a research poster for an interested visitor.
Hey #Madison community! Come check out the cool work of @uwmadison.bsky.social undergraduates this Friday at the Undergraduate Research Symposium, all day (9:30-5:30pm) at Union South & the Discovery Building. [symposium website]: ugradsymposium.wisc.edu #research #undergraduate
And finally.. we are hiring for a postdoc! So if this resonates with you (cross-sensory interaction, inclusive co-design, shape-changing interfaces, materials, playful tech)
see: shorturl.at/laPBp
and come chat at CHI!
A haptic module for feeling vectors with a roughly cylindrical 3d-printed base and a joystick-shaped actuated piece sticking out of the top. The actuated joystick can trace vectors on the palm.
With guest appearance from a friendly haptic module!
A screenshot of a title slide with the title "Perceiving space through movement: blind and visually impaired learners' spatial explorations and imaginations with haptic technologies in STEM education co-design" with the names of authors: Sofia Tancredi at UW Madison, Colton Doherty, Jenn Tennison, and Jenna Gorlewicz from Saint Louis University, Brett Fiedler from CU-Boulder, and Dor Abrahamson from UC Berkeley. A small picture show two hands sliding 3d-printed haptics modules through a maze.
Hey #AERA2026! Wanna come feel a vector?
I'll be presenting on #haptic ways of exploring spatial concepts in STEM, including key ideas from a co-design session with blind and low vision youth, Sunday 7:45-9:15am at L.A LIVE (ground floor Gold4, "VR and Haptic Learning Experiences" paper session).
A pencil drawing of a small room into which a photocopier, a large screen, several shelves, and a small table have been crammed. Bags of food cover the table, waiting for people to eat them. On the whiteboard in the background, the words “Do you feel like you matter?” are faintly visible.
A recipe for enchiladas verdes con pollo, handwritten on a lined piece of paper.
How might #ParticipatoryResearch create and enact more humanizing ways to be together?
Our new article in @journalprm.bsky.social explores the poetry of connection and care as affective, social, political, and epistemological processes: tinyurl.com/PoetryofCare... #Education #TheMatteringCollective
Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026
Please share!!
I am recruiting for doctoral students at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Particularly those focused on the intersections between math ed and disability studies here, but also either field. Classes for the first three years are in person. My email: rlambert@ucsb.edu #ITeachMath #EduSky
I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...
@ndconnection.bsky.social :)
We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions!
We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it.
2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...
The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
When people give directions, they sometimes reposition themselves -- for example, they may turn to face the direction they would be facing if actually following that path.... Anyone know of any research on this phenomenon? @noranewcombe.bsky.social
Pamphlet that says “Data Gems” and a bracelet and keychain with moveable charms used to physically track personally meaningful data.
Cardboard structures: an icosohedron (20 triangular faces) and structure where each face of the icosohedron holds a triangle-base pyramid
Sock puppet with pink yarn hair, googley eyes, and red heart-shaped glasses made of pipe cleaner
Balance Board Marh demo: two people rock seated on wooden balance boards. In front of them on a projected display, graphs appear.
Thanks #PlayMakeLearn!
Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them
Hey #PlayMakeLearn! come play with functions tomorrow (Thursday) during playful demos, 4:45–5:45pm
Hahaha welcome to the resistance
fyi the bit.ly link didn't work for me. excited to read this!
Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights.
Do Ho Suh's "Staircase": a framed curved and crumpled red form on a white background showing a 3d staircase made of thread and gelatine paper collapsed into two dimensions.
It was special to catch Do Ho Suh’s “Walk the House” Exhibition on my way back from Europe, home for me as an adolescent, to my home in the US- a gorgeous reflection on the beauty and longing of carrying different homes with us and the nature of memory.
See you today at 3pm in Helsinki or virtually #ISLS2025
note: Rachel Lambert & Edmund Harriss can't make it in the end, so be sure to check out their paper in here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.
The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm
Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.
Why aren’t you in class? You look like someone who needs some absurdist sock puppet skits today: tinyurl.com/wayic
See you there, Sunday stragglers!
Definitely! Here’s a link to the conference paper. Super interesting about your students’ area gestures. If you're interested in research on gesture in math ed more broadly, I would be happy to send you some of the cool work in this area! tinyurl.com/TancrediSerr...
Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.
Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture
Photograph of a tactile version of a museum artwork poster of a humanoid bird creature standing in tall grass. The bird woman has long human legs, wings, and a beak, and she is shown in profile. The different layers of the image are shown with layered paper, and the details are embroidered onto the paper with different types of stitchwork: courser feather-like stitches on her body, and long lines in the grass. The tactile version of this artwork is by Stefanie Koseff.
Photograph of a set of three 3d printed manipulatives showing different stages in embryo development.
Photograph of a circuit making kit showing foam blocks with conductive tape that connect magnetically. The blocks have things like a soft cat or clock adhered to the sides and can activate vibration motors, fans, and other features.
Just got back from a workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Abigale Stangl convening experts in engineering, design, accessibility tech, HCI, CS, tactile graphics, tactile art, and STEM ed to talk Tactile & Embodied Learning. Excited for where such interdisciplinary dialogue can take the field!
#edpsychs An excellent compilation of resources here.
I would also add Aucademy is a very useful website. By autistic researchers researching autism. Lots of references.
Useful for schools also, and if you are an Assistant EP these are worth exploring for your interviews or personal statements.
Woah! Do you know anything about who made this or how it was trained?
Building a starter pack for #Embodiment research: #EmbodiedCognition #EmbodiedLearning #Gestures #Movement #BodilyActions #EmbodiedInteraction #Avatar #XR #VR #Robotics #EmbodiedAI etc
Is this you? Message me and I will add you 📬
go.bsky.app/U1worrv
!! maintenant on peut neuroqueeriser :)
