Kim Pearson

Civic Media Researcher

January 5, 2013
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As we change journalism education, we need to study journalism learners

As journalism educators scramble to meet growing demands for infusing computational skills in their curricula, little research is being done on what helps or hinders journalism students’ learning. It’s time to study journalism learners. Continue reading

April 30, 2011
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Interdisciplinary Computing Blog: Interdisciplinary Computing Meeting Number 2: Day 1, Part 1

Liza Kaczmarscyk does a nice job of capturing the first day of discussion at our meeting on Creating a Climate for Interdisciplinary Computing. The discussion on computational journalism to which she alludes was initiated by yours truly and Rich Gordon … Continue reading

January 6, 2011
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The Me Nobody Knew Then

“When I first get up in the morning I feel fresh and it feels like it would be a good day to me. But after I get in school, things change and they seem to turn into problems for me. … Continue reading

August 17, 2010
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Bringing interactive journalism into the middle school: A conversation with Laura Fay

Laura Fay is a Reading teacher at Fisher Middle School in Ewing, New Jersey. For the last three years, she has been an active collaborator in the Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers (http://www.tcnj.edu/~ijims), a demonstration project at The College … Continue reading

January 3, 2010
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Journalism education as a tool for culturally responsive teaching

These slides are from a presentation I gave in January 2008 at the Culturally Responsive Teaching, Leadership  and Counseling Symposium at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. This Just In View more presentations from guesta98df3.