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Congratulations to Dr Edith Bouton!!

28 June, 2023
Congratulations to Dr Edith Bouton, who wrote an excellent dissertation on new methods for measuring academically productive dialogue in classrooms! This year she presented parts of her dissertation at ICLS 2023 (for which she recieved a best student paper nomination!) , and at the annual School of Ed conference 

 

Dina Jonas and Meirav Levin win prestigious scholarships

15 February, 2022
Very proud and happy to announce that PhD students Meirav Levin and Dina Jonas are the new  recipients of the prestigeous, 3-year long Zalman Aran scholarship for outstanding PhD students awarded by the Ministry of Education Chief Scientist's office. Meirav's PhD focuses on teacher learning of and about academically productive clasroom dialogue. Dina's PhD focused on low achieving children in elementary school classroom discussion activities.  

 

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Teacher burnout during COVID-19

29 April, 2021
Teacher burnout and wellbeing during COVID-19: Findings from our recent study reported in Maariv newspaper, 28 April 2021

 

Keynote presentation on Conceptual Change in and through Social Interaction cancelled

25 April, 2020
Unfortunately, I will not be able to give my keynote presentation on Conceptual change and social interaction at the 12th International European Association for Research on Learning & Instruction (EARLI) Conference on Conceptual Change (SIG3). The entire conference which was planned for 24-26/6/2020 in Zwolle, Netherlands, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemia travel and meeting restrictions. 

 

2020 Congreso Internacional de Argumentación, Aprendizaje y Educación

Presentation in Santiago de Chile

20 January, 2020
On January 14 2020, I presented our work on "Productive pedagogical discourse for teacher learning in professional learning communities" in a keynote talk at the I Congreso Internacional de Argumentación, Aprendizaje y Educación, at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile. The 2-day conference was organized by Prof. Antonia Larrain, and included presentations on argumentation, diaogue and learning from Brasil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the UK and Israel.

The 2018 EARLI SIG2026 conference hosted in Jerusalem !

3 November, 2018
We were very happy and honoured to have hosted over 200 delegates to the 2018 EARLI SIG20&26 conference which organized at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem for this edition! Thanks to all the members of the local organization team, especially Edith Bouton, Efrat Firer, Yifat Kolikant, & Baruch Schwarz! For more info on the event please see the news release here

Artificially inflated depression rates in MTurk

15 July, 2019
Data collection from online platforms, such as Mechanical Turk (MTurk), has become popular in clinical research. However, there are also concerns about the representativeness and the quality of this data for clinical studies. In a recent study (in press for Clinical Psychological Science), we explored these issues in the specific case of major depression.

Closing keynote at CHAIS 2019 conference

13 February, 2019
In the keynote (13/02/2019), I will present an overview of the research we have conducted on social media, education, student learning and well-being over the past 6 years. The title of the keynote: "Meetings in the digital sphere: Teachers, students and social media". My slides are available below. The full program is accessible here

Talk at the Masaryk University

11 February, 2019

Miriam Babichenko and Christa Asterhan presented a paper at the multi-disciplinary and vibrant “Better learning through Argumentation” meeting organized by Roman Svaricek and Klara Sedova at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. The title of the talk: Productive dialogue in the classroom staff room: Moving from the study of student argumentation to peer-led, teacher dialogue in PLCs. Paper available upon request. 

 

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Talk on the Digital Footprints of Psychological Distress

21 February, 2018
I presented our research on psychological distress manifestations on social media at the symposium titled "Using traces of digital activity to study and support learning and teaching", organized at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) by Anouschka van Leeuwen and Nikol Rummel. My slides are available below

 

Start of a new joint project funded by the Israeli Innovation Authority

1 September, 2017
Together with Roi Reichart (Technion),  Baruch Schwarz and a very talented group of junior researchers, we will be developing automated detection tools for different types of psycholgical distress, based on an individual's online behavior. The project will run for 2 years (2017-2019), and is funded as a KAMIN grant. 

 

New grant awarded: ISF Center of Excellence

28 November, 2017
I am excited to announce that, together with Adam Lefstein, Dana Vedder-Weiss, Guy Roth and Hadar Netz, we were awarded a 5-year long Center of Excellence on Meaningful learning (funded by the Israeli Science Foundation). We will be working in close collaboration with practitioners to develop a program for, implement and study academically productive classroom talk in upper elementary Israeli schools.  

 

CSCL2017 presentation

30 June, 2017
Presented research with Edith Bouton on teenage knowledge sharing through social networks at CSCL2017. Here are my slides:

 

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Visit in Santiago, Chile

15 November, 2016
Wrapping up a week-plus long visit to Antonia Larrain and her group in Santiago, Chile. AMong others, I gave a talk in a session organized by Antonia at the Alberto Hurtado University. The title of my talk: "Argumentation for learning - The right balance between critique and consensus". 

 

Talk at the “Learning in Social Contexts” conference in Pittsburgh

22 May, 2016

A two-day meeting organized by John Levine and Linda Argote, in which scholars from different disciplines (education, ed psych, organizational science, computer science, org psych) share their research on learning in and from group work in different settings. The program is attached.

The title of my own talk is "Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know" and here is the abstract:

Miriam Babichenko now an Azrieli fellow

24 July, 2016
Congratulations to Miriam who was chosen an Azrieli fellow and will receive the prestigious Azrieli scholarship for her PhD research for the coming 3 years. 

 

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Poster at ICPS 2015 Amsterdam

12 March, 2015
Yaakov Ophir presenting our research on teacher-student social network communication during times of war, at ICPS 2015 in Amsterdam

 

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Teacher burnout during COVID-19

29 April, 2021

Teacher burnout and wellbeing during COVID-19: Findings from our recent study reported in Maariv newspaper, 28 April 2021