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Camillia Matuk

Associate Professor & Program Director of Educational Communication and Technology

Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Camillia Matuk is Associate Professor in NYU Steinhardt's Educational Communication and Technology program, and director of RIDDLE. She serves as an Associate Editor for Instructional Science, a member of the editorial board of the International Journal for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (ijCSCL), and a member of the Education Committee for the International Society for the Learning Sciences.

Currently, Camillia's research explores how socially-driven inquiry learning experiences can expand the ways that learners engage with and understand the world, and empower them to address issues that matter to them. She is especially interested in how these learning experiences can be enriched with technology, storytelling, and the arts, and in how they can be made achievable in school contexts, including middle school, high school, and university. She uses mixed methods that draw on design-based research (DBR) and design-based implementation research (DBIR), and that include co-designing with practitioners, pre/post assessment designs, quasi-experiments, participant interviews, learner-generated artifact analyses, and case studies.

Camillia's earlier research involved designing and studying the impacts of classroom-based, online technologies on middle school students' science inquiry learning; designing teacher professional development; and investigating people's sense-making of narrative-based scientific representations (e.g., comics, animations, diagrams).

Camillia's projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Health (NIH), and have been presented at conferences of the International Society for the Learning Sciences (ICLS), the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Educational Research (AERA), and at other conferences in psychology, visualization, games, and the cognitive sciences. Her work has been recognized with a 2013 Outstanding Research Presentation Award from the AERA Design & Technology SIG; a 2015 Best Design Paper Award, and a 2019 Best Paper nomination, both from the International Conference for Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL).

From 2008-2010, Camillia held an SSHRC doctoral fellowship and a Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research Projects. She was a DR-K12 CADRE Fellow from 2010-2011. Prior to joining NYU, was a postdoc with Marcia Linn on the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE), and lecturer in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. There, she taught graduate-level courses on Scientific Thinking and Learning, and Integrating Technology into Secondary English Instruction for PhD and masters and teaching credential students.

Camillia has a PhD in the Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. Previously, she was a medical illustrator at INVIVO (now Red Nucleus) in Toronto. She holds an MSc in Biomedical Communications from the University of Toronto, an OCGC in 3D Computer Animation from Sheridan College, a BSc in Biological Sciences from the University of Windsor, and an ARCT in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Selected Publications

Programs

Educational Communication and Technology

Prepare to create, use, and evaluate media and technology through academic and leadership positions in research, technology, and education.

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Courses

Foundations of Cognitive Science

Introduction to cognitive science applied to teaching, learning, and the design of instructional media. Readings include developments in cognitive science and analysis of instructional programs developed in a cognitive science framework. The design and implementation of cognitive learning and teaching strategies are examined through class demonstrations, discussions, online activities, readings and projects.
Course #
EDCT-GE 2174
Credits
3
Department
Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Foundations of the Learning Sciences

This course focuses on the social and cultural issues of learning as they relate to individual and group cognition in the context of media-rich technology learning environments. The course delves deeply into constructivism/constructionism, scaffolding, apprenticeship, distributed cognition, computer-supported collaborative learning, knowledge-building communities, the learning sciences, perspectivity and identity formation as they relate to the creation of successful and equitable learning environments for diverse populations of learners.
Course #
EDCT-GE 2175
Credits
3
Department
Administration, Leadership, and Technology

Learning Environment Design

Course #
EDCT-GE 2017
Credits
Department
Administration, Leadership, and Technology