Dr. Pinkard’s research is focused on the design and use of pedagogical-based social networks, new media literacy learning outcomes, ecological models of learning and developing pathways for urban youth to develop fluidity as creators and consumers of new media literacies.
Activities and Honors:
Nichole Pinkard is the Director of Innovation for the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute (UEI) and a Senior Research Associate, as well as the Chief Technology Officer and Director of the Information Infrastructure System (IIS) project at the Center for Urban School Improvement (USI) at the University of Chicago. She holds a doctorate in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University. Pinkard plays a leading role in UEI's engagement in creating optimal learning environments that span school, home and community including efforts to implement 1:1 computing in urban schools, integrate new media into core instruction, and create new media learning opportunities outside of the school day. She is a recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and a National Science Foundation Early Career Fellowship. Pinkard serves on the Advisory Board of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, and on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Games Research program.
Selected Publications:
• Pinkard, N. (1999). Lyric Reader: An Architecture for Creating Intrinsically Motivating and Culturally Responsive Reading Environments. Interactive Learning Environments, 7(1), 001.
• Pinkard, N. (2007). Girl Power, Encouraging Sixth Grade Girls to Give Video Games a Try http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/pinkard_girl_power_encouraging_girls_games
• Pinkard, N. (2007). Preparing Urban Youth to be Multiliterate http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/nichole_pinkard_youth_multiliterate_learners/
• Pinkard, N. (2007). Videogames Inspire a Different Design for Classroom Learning http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/pinkard_videogames_inspire_classroom_desing
• Pinkard, N. (2006). Developing Opportunities for Urban Youth to become Digital
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/
nichole_pinkard_developing_opportunities_for_urban_youth_to_become_digital/
• Pinkard, N. (2005). Providing Ambitious Intellectual Work for All Students: Design and Development of Knowledge Management Systems for Urban Schools http://scil.stanford.edu/video/refmovies/NicolePinkard.mov/
Websites and Recent Posts:
http://www.iremix.org.
http://www.iisrd.org
