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Dani is the Co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Labs in the College of Education. Her current NSF-funded project investigates co-designed data science curricula and their impact on rural elementary students’ data science practices. In 2019-20, she was a Watt Fellow at Clemson, investigating the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. From 2013-2016 she was an Edmund W. Gordon/MacArthur Foundation Fellow for 21st Century Learning and Assessment. Dani’s research and teaching interests focus on helping advance digital media and learning in schools. She focuses her research on youth out-of-school practices with technology as a bridge between informal and formal learning, collaborative problem-solving in makerspaces and technology-enabled environments, and exploring how STEAM education can promote equitable learning opportunities for students. Prior to working at Clemson, she spent 20 years in public education as a classroom teacher, technology resource teacher, and District administrator, writing several curricula for middle and high school students focused on teaching computational thinking practices through games and App development. She served on Wisconsin’s Department of Instruction Curriculum Digital Advisory Committee and, at the national level, worked with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Leading Edge Schools Cadre.

Her research-based STEAM book can be found here: https://www.tcpress.com/an-educator-s-guide-to-steam-9780807761380