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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. 

 

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
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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

 

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.  

 

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. 

 

CSCL2017 presentation

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