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Embodied Design Research Laboratory

EDRL is a design-based research lab studying mathematical cognition and instruction by creating and evaluating theory-driven educational innovation using both traditional and cutting-edge media. Welcome to our world.

Announcements!

EDRL, PhET, and CHROME receive NSF-RITEL award for TeleTangibles!

Learn more about TeleTangibles here.

EDRL hosted a week-long international workshop on Embodied Design and Multimodal Learning Analytics.

Members of EDRL with Prof. Susan Gerofsky at AERA 2024, after presenting their symposium for the SIG Research in Mathematics Education.

Experts translate the latest findings on embodied cognition from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science to inform teaching and learning pedagogy.

This open-access book includes multiple chapters written by researchers from EDRL.

A free digital copy can be found here.

Researchers from EDRL, in collaboration with the PhET lab at University of Colorado at Boulder, and the CHROME lab at St. Louis University, received the following recognition:

Dr. Arthur I. Karshmer Award for Assistive Technology Research

Each year, the Journal Track submission with the highest marks is recognized with the Dr. Arthur Karshmer Award for Assistive Technology Research. Award winners are honored for their exemplary submission and excellence in research and the advancement of assistive technology. The 2022 Dr. Arthur I. Karshmer Award for Assistive Technology Research is awarded to “A Tangible Manipulative for Inclusive Quadrilateral Learning” by Scott Lambert, Brett Fiedler, Chloe Hershenow, Dor Abrahamson, and Jenna Gorlewicz.

To learn more about this work, see this video and read this essay. The paper PDF can be viewed here.

A collaborative paper of three labs — EDRL, PhET , and CHROME — describing their development of mechatronic resources for students with vision impairments to learn geometry, has won Best Paper award at REN 2022 in Rome.

EDRL PhD student Sofia Tancredi has been selected by the International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) for the following recognition:

2022 Bell Burkhardt Daro Shell Centre Award for Aspiring Educational Designers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics

The Trustees of the Bell Burkhardt Daro Shell Centre Trust are pleased to announce that Sofia Tancredi has been chosen as recipient of the 2022 Bell Burkhardt Daro Shell Centre Award for Aspiring Educational Designers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. Sofia’s promise as a designer, shown, in particular, by her designs integrating sensory-seeking actions as a fundamental part of regular classroom mathematics learning, impressed the Awards Committee greatly, and they see considerable potential in her approach for supporting marginalized students. Congratulations to Sofia on her $1000 prize.

To learn more about Sofia’s work, please click here.

Rhythm Rising: EDRL goes to RITMO at U. Oslo

The aim is to investigate rhythm as an emergent modality for organizing personal and inter-personal enactment of goal-oriented coordinated actions. In line with our collective interests, we will focus on the case of spontaneous rhythmic behaviors in the context of engaging with designed activities bearing potential mathematical meanings.