Constance Steinkuehler

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Constance Steinkuehler is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Communications and Technology (ECT) program in the Curriculum & Instruction department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a founding fellow of the GLS Initiative at UW–Madison and chairs the annual GLS conference held each summer in Madison. Her research on cognition, learning, and literacy in MMOs has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the Academic ADL Co-Lab, including research on such commercial titles as Lineage I, Lineage II, Star Wars Galaxies, World of Warcraft, and, most recently, RuneScape. She earned her PhD in literacy studies in curriculum and instruction in 2005, her M.S. in educational psychology in 2000, and three simultaneous B.A.s in mathematics, english, and religious studies in 1993. She teaches graduate courses in research in online virtual worlds, analyzing online social interaction, critical instructional practices on the internet, and gender and technology, and an undergraduate course in digital media, pop culture, and learning. She sits on the editorial board of several journals including the Journal of the Learning Sciences, the International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, and Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media. She is the Chair of the AERA SIG “Media, Culture, and Curriculum,” sits on the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Committee on Gaming, Simulations, and Education, and recently received a NAS/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship.

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