Satwicz, Tom

Assistant Professor
LPSL

Research Interests:

Socio-cultural perspectives on technology and interaction across settings for formal and informal learning. Diffusion of educational innovations. Mathematical practices in everyday environments.

Featured Publications:

Satwicz, T., McCarthy, L., & Stevens, R. (in preparation). Playing with representations: How do kids make use of quantitative representations in video games?

Satwicz, T. & Stevens, R. (in preparation). People, technology, and learning: A distributed look at collaborative activity. In. J. M. Spector, M.D. Merrill, J.J.G. van Merriënboer & M.P. Driscoll (Eds.), Handbook of research on educational communications and technology (3rd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stevens, R., Satwicz, T., & McCarthy, L. (in preparation). In game, in room, in world: Reconnecting video game play to the rest of kids' lives.

Satwicz, T. & Stevens, R. (2004). Comparing conflicting perspectives on a diffused technology. In Y. B. Kafai, W. A. Sandoval, N. Enyedy, A. S. Nixon & F. Herrera (Eds.), Embracing diversity in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 632). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bell, P., Stevens, R., & Satwicz, T. (Eds.). (2002). Keeping learning complex: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference of the Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Education:

Ph.D. – Cognitive Studies in Education, University of Washington – 2006

M.Ed. - Curriculum and Instruction (Educational Technology), University of Washington - 2002

B.S. - Education (Elementary Math and Science), University of Michigan - 1998