Andrea Forte

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I'm joining the faculty of the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel Univeristy in Philadelphia as an assistant professor.

I recieved my PhD from the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology in human-centered computing with a focus on social computing and learning sciences

I want to understand how social technologies can be designed better to support human learning. In particular, I'm interested in how emergent uses of technology create opportunities for people to construct new knowledge together. My dissertation work examined how new media is transforming what it means to be information literate. I developed new wiki tools and introduced them in high school science classrooms where I studied information prodcution consuption and creation among youth.

aforte(at)gatech(dot)edu

Fes, Morocco, 2004
While wandering through the Medina in Fes, we stopped in several medieval buildings that looked as though they hadn't changed at all in the hundreds of years that they'd been standing. This photo was taken in an uninhabited medieval Medersa, or Islamic school, looking up past rows of students' quarters to the open sky above.

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