The UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar kicks off the spring semester with a presentation by Dr. Ana Oskoz, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication.  Dr. Oskoz's presentation focuses on the integration of monomodal and multimodal feedback in three important areas of investigation: (1) how to provide monomodal or multimodal feedback to monomodal and/or multimodal texts either during the writing process or to the final products, (2) how to use different tools and their affordances (e.g., screencast software, ChatGPT) to provide feedback, and (3) whether multimodal feedback influences the nature of learners' revisions.

All members of the department, partners/collaborators, and students/faculty from other departments and institutions are invited to attend.  Lunch will be provided by the department.  Please RSVP as soon as possible.

Wednesday, March 4 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445"We Ain't New to this, We True to This": Teaching Democracy and Citizenship: Through Black Educator Oral and Life Histories.

Brandon Beck, Assitant Professor, Department of Education

Wednesday, April 1 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
"Cultivating a Rightful Presence: Inclusive Early Childhood STEM"
Michele Stites, Associate Professor of Early Education, Department of Education
Jonathan Singer, Professor, Department of Education

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall445
"A Multilingual Perspective on Literacy: Monolingual Bias in Reading Instruction and the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals"
Laura Ascienzo-Moreno, Ph.D., Professor, Childhood, Bilingual And Special Education, School of Education, Brooklyn College