Michael Smith
Michael Smith is a Computer Science and Learning Sciences PhD student at Northwestern University, and a National GEM Consortium PhD Fellow. Some of his research and project interests include exploring the intersections of technology & education, formal and informal learning, computing culture, new media and community, and games.
Publications (6)
Quiterio, A., Worsley, M., Smith, M., & Xiao, A. (2025). Data Scavenger Hunt: Actively Authoring Data and Interpreting Movement. Proceedings of the 2025 Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice Conference.
Worsley, M., Quiterio, A., Kumar, V., Smith, M., Bodon, H., & Butler, M. (2025). SportSense: Engaging youth in data science experience in in-school and out-of-school K-12 contexts. Proceedings of the 2025 Data Science Education K-12: Research to Practice Conference.
Kshirsagar, K., Quiterio, A., & Smith, M. (2025). MorphBlox: Bridging Play and Mathematics through Kinetic Tessellations. Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '25).
Kafai, Y., Shapiro, R. B., Jetzinger, F., Michaeli, T., Tedre, M., Vartiainen, H., Iivari, N., Musaeus, L. H., Iversen, O. S., Ali, S., Bodon, H., Butler, M., Kshirsagar, K., Smith, M., Quiterio, A., Worsley, M., Kumar, V., Morales-Navarro, L., Noh, D., ... Philip, T. M. (2025). Youth as Designers of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technologies: What Do We Know About the Opportunities and Challenges of K-12 Students Creating Their Own Applications? Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2025), pp. 2260-2268. ISLS.
DOISmith, M., Kumar, V., & Worsley, M. (2024). Unveiling Student Interests: A Topic Modeling Exploration of Interest-Driven Project-Based Learning. Companion Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK '24).
Quiterio, A. & Smith, M. (2024). Data Informed Learning for Equity: Empowering Volunteer Coaches in Youth Basketball Leagues. Proceedings of the 2024 RESPECT Annual Conference, pp. 139-142.