Playful Schools and Playful Practices
Apr 26, 2022 7:00 AM
Dr Michelle Schira Hagerman
Playful Schools and Playful Practices

Dr. Michelle Schira Hagerman is Associate Professor of Educational Technologies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa where she works to prepare pre-service teachers and graduate students to use digital technologies in critical, meaningful, and socially just ways that are also informed by research. An Ontario Certified Teacher, Dr. Hagerman grew up in Waterford, and began her teaching career at Delhi District Secondary School where she taught French as a Second Language from 1996 to 2001. As a researcher, Dr. Hagerman explores questions about how young adolescents understand and use Internet information for research projects that they do at school and how their teachers are supporting them. She also studies how making with digital and physical materials can support literacies learning for children in grades 4-8. The newly appointed Director of CHENINE, a uOttawa collaboratory focused on CHange, ENgagement and INnovation in Education, she is currently working with a team of visionary colleagues to develop a national network of playful schools. Supported by funding from the LEGO Foundation, her talk will focus on the design of this project and its importance as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.

A Press Release about the project can be found by clicking on this link.  

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