Ali Carr-Chellman

Ali shared her thoughts on cybercharters at this year's TEDxPSU event Sunday, Nov. 13, 2011.  Talk will be available online at http://www.tedxpsu.com in the coming weeks.

 See Ali on Central PA Live:  http://wearecentralpa.com/fulltext-centralpalive?nxd_id=319627

Ali appeared on WBUR Boston NPR radio station in July...listen here: http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/09/12/boys-school-games

Ali was appointed to the Advisory Board of The Boys' Initiative: www.theboysinitiative.org/  May 2011.

Ali was invited to join the Commission to establish a White House Council for Boys to Men, May 2011.

Ali spoke on the Brian Lehrer Show: www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2011/apr/12/educational-technology/ for WNYC, New York City's NPR station.  Discussion was on the uses of educational technology in schools during times of budget crises.

If you're looking for information on the TED talk, and connections with others interested in the TED talk, please go to the facebook page for this topic:
www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Ali-Carr-Chellman-Bring-Back-the-Boys-TED/195665610450138

Ali's talk from TEDxPSU on Boy Culture in Schools was bumped up to the GLOBAL TED website Jan 2011! 

lwww.ted.com/talks/ali_carr_chellman_gaming_to_re_engage_boys_in_learning.html

Ali was nominated by the National Science Teachers Association to the "Nifty Fifty" and will be presenting at their expo in April 2012 in Washington DC.

• Ali is engaged in a series of research projects including Bring Back the Boys, in which we are concerned with the ways in which video gaming may be used to re-engage boys in their elementary level education in particular. 
• There is also an ongoing longitudinal qualitative research project which focuses on the amplification of unheard voices in the school reform dialogue--such as prisoners, homeless, working poor, and migrant workers.
• Ali's research team is engaging in work on a Universal Design Test which they hope will help to identify the ways in which various groups (demographically differentiated) may score on a test of design capabilities.  This is a relatively new project, though the team has been looking at design literature and the creation of the test itself for almost 2 years now.

Ali is author of more than 100 articles, books, and proceeding papers.  She is a graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington with her Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology and did her original research on community participation in school change efforts. 

Ali has just concluded writing ID For Teachers which introduces the Instructional Design for Teachers or ID4T model, a trimmed back instructional design approach most appropriate for classroom teachers' use.  The book will be used in INSYS 415b (available online through World Campus as a requirement for the EDTEC masters degree for teachers).  The text is being published by Routledge and should be out in August, 2010.

The 9 Step ID4T model:
• Goals
• Objectives
• Learner characteristics
• Test items
• Texts
• Activities
• Media
• Implementation
• Revisions

From Ali:  "If you're frustrated by the lack of change that modern technologies have brought to classrooms in all sorts of settings, I'd love to welcome you to our research team!"

Ali is best contacted by email: aac3@psu.edu