Fontaine
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- Middle Name
- Marie
- Last name
- Fontaine
- Website
- http://clairemariefontaine.com/cv
- Brief Bio
I am a third year student in the Urban Education PhD program and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Lately I have been thinking about the different ways that information technologies and instructional technologies are deployed, both in and outside of formal educational environments, to discipline youth student populations (and to a lesser extent, teacher populations and adult student populations). Who or what does the disciplining here? What constitutes the disciplining program? How does it vary across contexts?
- Full Bio
Claire Fontaine, a graduate student in the Urban Education Ph.D. Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, is concerned with questions of pedagogy and learning design situated in particular technological, organizational and geographic contexts. For example, in one of her projects, she is investigating how social media can be leveraged by teachers and students in historically marginalized urban environments to promote community involvement and leadership development. Now pursuing a certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, Claire is also a technology integration specialist and fellow with the Stanton/Heiskell Center for Public Policy and Project Stretch, a technology-based literacy program. Through Project Stretch she aims to develop generative and collaborative relationships with teachers while using the Moodle learning management system to promote social constructivist pedagogical practices. She has written about the pedagogical affordances and constraints of Moodle and Howard Rheingold’s Social Media Classroom in K-12 public settings and is developing a model for integrating the functionality of both frameworks. Her work in urban schools is informed by five years of classroom teaching in a high school for over-age and under-credited students in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, an experience which shaped her vision of learning as a performative, participatory and fundamentally social endeavor.
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