Nomination for Jan Hawkins Award 2022

As a result of this nomination, one of the recent influential articles of Dr. Omid Noroozi has been feautured in Jan Hawkins website entitled: “Promoting argumentation competence: Extending from first- to second-order scaffolding through adaptive fading”. This article was published in Educational Psychology Review in 2018. This award recognizes an early-career individual or small collaborative team that is engaged in research that combines practice and advocacy.

The award is intended to recognize a body of work that:

• explores and demonstrates powerful new ways to think about technologies in contexts of learning and education, and uses innovative research methods to understand the impact of those technologies.
• places young people and/or practicing educators at the center of the problem-solving process by making their meaning-making process, their needs and constraints, and their priorities central to the project
• strikes an effective balance between innovation -- inventing new approaches to K-12 learning with technologies -- and understanding -- examining existing educational environments and changes that occur when technologies are introduced
• uses technology to bring about broad improvements in educational systems by addressing equity, diversity, relations of power, and/or learning for all.
• is relevant and responsive to the current social context where society is looking to new technologies to address the landscape of education transformed by the pandemic and fighting systemic racism

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To read the feautured article please visit this link.