Constance Steinkuehler
Biography
Constance Steinkuehler is an assistant professor in the Educational Communication and Technology program in the Curriculum and Instruction department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research is on cognition, learning, and literacy in MMO games. Current interests include “pop cosmopolitanism” in online worlds and the intellectual practices that underwrite such a disposition, including informal scientific reasoning, collaborative problem solving, media literacy (as production, not just consumption), computational literacy, and the social learning mechanisms that support the development of such expertise (e.g., reciprocal apprenticeship, collective intelligence).
Session Information
- Real-Time Research: (Starting) A GLS Experiment in the Design of Scholarship
- An Elf, a Knight, and a Princess Walk Into This Bar… Virtual Friendships 7 Years Later
- A Topology of Literacy Practices in World of Warcraft
- Real-Time Research: (Concluding) A GLS Experiment in the Design of Scholarship
- Discussant, Close Readings of Gameplay (Thursday, 2 p.m.)
- Discussant, World of Warcraft (Friday, 11 a.m.)
- Discussant, Games & Incivility (Friday, 2 p.m.)