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Lecture: "The Digital Portfolio Archives Project in Elementary Science Classrooms" by Yasmin Kafai and Anne Gilliland-Swetland (UCLA, 21 January 1999) 

Forwarded to STHC-L (Science, Technology, and Health Care Archives 
Internet Forum) with permission.

For more information (excerpts from the original proposal, it 
appears) on the Digital Portfolio project, see Anne 
Gilliland-Swetland's Current research web page at 
<http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/research/dpa/digport.html>

For those who are not familiar with the UCLA campus see 
<http://www.ucla.edu/map/index.html> for a map and directions. 


Russell Johnson

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Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested.


The UCLA Information Studies Seminar presents

Yasmin B. Kafai and Anne Gilliland-Swetland
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies

on

The Development of Mindful Information Practices:
The Digital Portfolio Archives Project in Elementary Science Classrooms


With the growing proliferation of the Internet, educators, policy
makers and parents are stressing the need for children to become
information literate.  Most discussions of information literacy center
around children's information use -- their ability to search, select
and evaluate information.  Less attention has been given to the idea
that being information literate also means knowing how to create
and document information sources and materials.  We call this more
comprehensive view "digital fluency" emphasizing that not only
the development of deliberate information uses but also meaningful
information production are essential features of mindful practices in
the information age.  To situate our ideas of digital fluency, we will
report on the recent results of a project called "Digital Portfolio
Archives in Elementary Science Classrooms".  We will describe and
discuss the activities of elementary students building and using print
as well as digital archives of historical and contemporary naturalist
materials.


Yasmin Kafai is on faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Education
and Information Studies where she also heads KIDS -- Kids Interactive
Design Studios -- a research group dedicated to explore interactive
multimedia design environments for young children.  Her current
research focuses on young children as designers of simulations and
builders of digital archives for science learning, both projects
funded by the National Science Foundation.  Further projects include
the study of video games as learning environments in children's
homes and schools funded by a Spencer postdoctoral fellowship of
the National Academy of Education.  She recently published and edited
two books, "Minds in Play: Computer Game Design as a Context for
Children's Learning" and "Constructionism in Practice: Designing,
Thinking and Learning in a Digital World" (with Mitchel Resnick), and
various articles in the fields of education, developmental psychology,
computer and information science.  Before coming to UCLA, she was a
Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant at the MIT Media Laboratory
for five years and worked at various other advanced technology
laboratories.  She holds degrees from Harvard University (M.Ed., and
Ed.D.) and from the Technical University Berlin (Germany).

Anne Gilliland-Swetland is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Library and Information Science at UCLA where she teaches courses
in archival science, electronic records management, and multimedia
resource development.  She has published widely in the areas of
electronic records administration and the development of multimedia
cultural heritage systems, as well as archival education.  Her current
research relates to the development of intellectual and technological
structures for the description, organization, use, and re-use of
digital primary sources, with particular emphasis on K-12 needs.  She
is co-Project Director for the US Team participating in the InterPARES
international research project that is examining the preservation of
authentic records in electronic systems.  She is also Director of the
Online Archive of California Evaluation Project.  Prior to coming to
UCLA in 1995, Dr. Gilliland-Swetland was director of the SourceLINK
Project within the University of Michigan Medical School Historical
Center for the Health Sciences.  The SourceLINK Project was funded
by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to develop a collaborative digital
library and CD-ROM educational products in the history of the health
sciences.  Dr. Gilliland-Swetland also taught courses in archival
administration and electronic records management at the University of
Michigan School of Information and Library Studies.  Anne Gilliland-
Swetland holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, M.S. and
C.A.S. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and an M.A. from Trinity College Dublin.


Thursday, January 21st, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

GSE&IS Building, Room 111
(just west of the Research Library)


Everyone is invited.

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