Webinar: Dissertations in Practice CIG

Date: Wednesday, June 9th
Time: 1:00 PM ET

This webinar will serve as a kick-off and introduction to the new Dissertations in Practice CIG. We will discuss the initial plans and goals of the CIG related to innovating around the Dissertation in Practice. Further, we will invite conversation from participants to help shape the future direction of the CIG. All students and faculty are welcome. 

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Presenters:

Leigh Graves Wolf is teacher-scholar and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. Leigh teaches with the Educational Leadership and Innovation EdD program and is a faculty fellow with the Office of Scholarship & Innovation. Her work centers around online education, critical digital pedagogy, K12 teacher professional development and relationships mediated by and with technology. She has worked across the educational spectrum from K12 to Higher to further and lifelong.   She believes passionately in collaboration and community. 

Danah Henriksen researches the intersections and influences of creativity and technology on teaching, with a focus on 21st-century thinking and learning in the classroom. Her work has examined creativity among exceptional teachers, through an in-depth qualitative study of the creative thought processes and teaching practices among nationally award-winning teachers. This research examines the practices and thinking skills of accomplished teachers, through the lens of transdisciplinary creativity. It considers the confluence between personal and professional creativity, to consider how excellent teachers translate their personal interests and avocations into creative teaching practices.