RESEARCHER PROFILE
Name: Jennifer Jenson
Title: Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Technology
Institution: Faculty of Education, York University
Region: Toronto, Ontario
Research Interests: Pedagogy and technology; Gender equity and technology; Multimedia and online content/design issues in education; Educational gaming; General issues in technology education
Complete Biography
Jennifer Jenson is assistant professor of pedagogy and technology at York University in the Faculty of Education. Her current research interests include gender and technology, cultural studies of technology, and the design and development of educational computer gaming applications. Jennifer has recently been awarded a Canadian Foundation for Innovation grant to study “play” as it relates to education and computer-based gaming and she currently is principal investigator on a SSHRC grant, “Education, Gender and Gaming” (EGG), which updates theoretical and practical work in the area of gender and technology, through a cultural studies approach to gender and video game playing. She is also is co-investigator of a SSHRC, Research Development Initiative grant (RDI) with Dr. Suzanne de Castell (of Simon Fraser University) which looks to new digital technologies for data collection, analysis, representation and reporting. Finally, she has completed, with Drs. Brian Lewis and Richard Smith (Simon Fraser University) a Canada-wide study of technology policies and policy practices in K-12 schooling.
Digital Artifacts
Ludus Vitae: Educational Game prototype in collaboration with the Banff New Media Research Centre.
Computers for Lunch: Co-developed with Dr. Suzanne de Castell and Mike Church CFL is an on-line professional development program for teachers and students. It was developed in response to a significant gap in teacher professional development and supplies an extensive, content-rich, well-scaffolded, interactive educational web site/ CD-ROM which is activity-based and covers a wide-range of software applications. It was adopted in Spring 2000 by the Software Human Resources Council (SHRC) for their "software careers" web site and forms a core curricular element of a new technology focused teacher education course at the University of British Columbia.
GenTech
Research Site: Co-developed with Drs. Suzanne de Castell
and Mary Bryson.
