Bill Tally

Biography

Bill Tally is senior researcher and designer, and associate director at the Center for Children and Technology in New York, part of the Education Development Center. For over 20 years, he has studied and designed educational uses of digital media in schools, libraries, museums, and homes. His work focuses on understanding the conditions for the emergence of new literacies in young people, adults, and institutions. Recent projects have centered on fostering historical thinking in digital environments, improving teacher education around the use of digital tools, and helping educators, program developers and researchers develop criteria for evaluating knowledge in digital environments. Tally received a BA in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an MA in liberal studies from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (with an emphasis on American cultural history), and a PhD in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where his dissertation examined children’s and parents’ digital literacy in low- and middle-income homes.

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