Waterbury Summit Schedule of Events
Tuesday, May 14th, 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Opening Session
Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center
3400 Discovery Rd
Petersburg, PA 16669
Wednesday, May 15th, 8:30am – 9:00am
Check-In and Registration
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Wednesday, May 15th, 9:00am -11:30am
Epistemic Heterogeneity
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Keynote Speakers: Tamara Clegg and Eve Manz
Responding Speakers: David Stroupe, Chrsitine Cunningham, and Ty Hollet
Overview: The way that areas of inquiry develop and value knowledge is foundational to understanding how people can learn in those disciplinary areas. The heterogeneity of epistemologies in the Learning Sciences is one of its deepest and most foundational values. The field brings into conversation scholars from diverse content expertise (e.g. literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies), as well as forms of inquiry (e.g. psychology, anthropology, and sociology). These epistemic differences can enrich our conversations, but they also create tensions in the work and in the field. In this session we will take up some of these productive epistemic tensions.
Conference Program: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterbury-summit-program/
Talk Abstracts: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterburyabstracts
Wednesday, May 15th, 11:30am – 2:00pm
Lunchtime Poster Session
Chambers Building
Wednesday, May 15th, 2:00pm-4:30pm
Data Heterogeneity
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Keynote Speakers: Katie Headrick Taylor and Victor Lee
Responding Speakers: Kevin Crowley, Rafi Santo, Joanna Weidler-Lewis and more.
Overview: The learning sciences recognizes multiple forms of data both in its research methodologies and as evidence to inform decision making in practice. In this session, we ask the question, what is heterogeneity of data? How is heterogeneity of data reflected in the learning sciences? And, what challenges does data heterogeneity present?
Conference Program: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterbury-summit-program/
Talk Abstracts: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterburyabstracts
Wednesday, May 15th 6:00pm
Dinner and Keynote Address by Bill Sandoval
The HUB – 233 AB
Thursday, May 16th, 8:30am – 9:00am
Check-In and Registration
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Thursday, May 16th, 9:00am – 11:30am
Cultural Heterogeneity
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Keynote Speakers: Kris Gutierrez and Carol Lee
Responding Speakers: David Gamson, Mari Haneda, Gabriela Richard, Tanner Vea, and Heather Toomey Zimmerman.
Overview: This session considers the role of culture — privileging this lens front and center– as we explore heterogeneity in learning through diverse settings, disciplinary learning, everyday and family life, and social practices of learning. Further, we seek to integrate various methodologies to study the intersection of culture, language, and learning with ethnography, neuroscience, sociolinguistics, and intervention/classroom-based research.
Conference Program: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterbury-summit-program/
Talk Abstracts: https://innovation.ed.psu.edu/waterburyabstracts
Thursday, May 16th, 1:00pm – 3:30pm
Heterogeneity of Impact
Krause Learning Space, 221 Chambers
Speakers Include: Dick Grandy, Kris Gutierrez, Susan Yoon, Karen Murphy, and William Sandoval.