2024 Year in Review
Boilermaker Educators in 2024 College of Education students, faculty and staff did innovative research, received awards and research funding, and had an all-around great year as we continued preparing Boilermaker Educators and supporting educators in Indiana and beyond! January 9th Indiana STEM Education Conference Morita-Mullaney receives a 2024 Purdue Dreamer Award Future Matters: Encouraging, preparing South Bend youth February Still No. 1 in Indiana: U.S. News & World Report ranks College of Ed online master’s programs at No. 15 in U.S. 15 College of Ed faculty collaborate on $1.5M Lilly Endowment science of reading grant Rural Ed Summit: Helping rural populations deal with pressing education issues March Begeske named INCEC 2024 Outstanding Professor of the Year Three outstanding College alumni named 2024 Golden Apple Awardees Using Minecraft to teach solid mechanics April Total Solar Eclipse Watch and Learn College of Education grad program ranks in Top 40 among U.S. public universities Cooke Foundation awards $200K to GERI May Smith awarded Purdue’s highest undergraduate teaching honor Kastberg named ICME-15 TSG co-chair PERU-Hub team, partners evaluate project’s progress at Peru workshop June Asunda leads State Department-funded project to improve Kazakhstan’s STEM education Not 1 but 2: CATALYST’s Bryan named as 2024 NARST Fellow and to Grand Universe Space Science Institute board Seven Holmes Scholars named to 2024 cohort July Dissecting squids and other hands-on activities: GER2I’s Super Summer program Chang to receive Messick award for ‘significant, enduring contributions to quantitative research’ Traynor receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Colombia August CREATE-ing tools to help students learn: CREATE center made official Honoring community educators at Purdue’s Golden Hammer Educator Appreciation football game College welcomes new faculty, lecturer, post-docs for 2024-25 September Purdue’s College of Education receives $34.9M grant to continue helping Indiana students, teachers succeed Transforming Education: College leads Purdue’s 1st online course for new master’s in AI 3 College faculty receive NSF grants October Students design “a game about AI using AI” Bryan named PI on NSF grant to examine youth STEM learning Inclusive voices, networking opportunities: Over 150 attend 1st-time ICLCLE literacy conference at Purdue November 250+ Educators attend 1st-time Purdue AI in P-12 Education conference 8 Boilermaker Educator faculty to retire in December ‘24 Supporting Indiana school districts: University Search Team December Times Higher Ed ranks College of Ed’s education degree as #22 best in U.S., #16 among public universities Indiana GEAR UP’s new state director wants to ‘remove barriers’ to education College of Ed professor briefs Congress, NSF on STEM education needs in rural areas Videos Education faculty experts Our faculty experts spoke on a number of varied educational topics during 2024. Purdue Brand Studio produced these videos for the Associated Press and they were shared throughout Indiana and the U.S. Kristen Seward: Understanding Gifted Education Bill Watson: Transforming education with AI Heather Servaty-Seib: Grief & Bereavement on College Campuses AI in Education We hosted a miniseries which brought together five brilliant young minds from education, psychology, learning science, and survey methodology. In these videos they share their innovative solutions to challenges powered by AI and data science. Craft Data Science Insights #1: Sequence Mining Craft Data Science Insights #2: Psychometrics Craft Data Science Insights #3: NAEP Math Achievement Gap Craft Data Science Insights #4: Predicting Student STEM Learning Craft Data Science Insights #5: Mixed-Mode Surveys Power Friday: Emerging Educational Technologies AI-Ed Fusion: Symposium on STEM Education in the Era of AI Indiana GEAR UP The Indiana GEAR UP program (INGU) is housed in the Purdue University College of Education and was awarded $34.9 million over the next seven years (2024-2031) by the U.S. Department of Education to continue its efforts to support Indiana students and educators. Indiana GEAR UP Overview My GEAR UP Story: Faith My GEAR UP Story: Zion My GEAR UP Story: September My GEAR UP Story: Joseph Indiana GEAR UP Infographic The Purdue University College of Education continues to prepare tomorrow’s educators and to support the education community. We welcome the opportunity to continue to train the educators of tomorrow in 2025. The post 2024 Year in Review appeared first on Purdue University College of Education.
Boilermaker Educators in 2024
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Education faculty experts
Our faculty experts spoke on a number of varied educational topics during 2024. Purdue Brand Studio produced these videos for the Associated Press and they were shared throughout Indiana and the U.S.
- Kristen Seward: Understanding Gifted Education
- Bill Watson: Transforming education with AI
- Heather Servaty-Seib: Grief & Bereavement on College Campuses
AI in Education
We hosted a miniseries which brought together five brilliant young minds from education, psychology, learning science, and survey methodology. In these videos they share their innovative solutions to challenges powered by AI and data science.
- Craft Data Science Insights #1: Sequence Mining
- Craft Data Science Insights #2: Psychometrics
- Craft Data Science Insights #3: NAEP Math Achievement Gap
- Craft Data Science Insights #4: Predicting Student STEM Learning
- Craft Data Science Insights #5: Mixed-Mode Surveys
- Power Friday: Emerging Educational Technologies
- AI-Ed Fusion: Symposium on STEM Education in the Era of AI
Indiana GEAR UP
The Indiana GEAR UP program (INGU) is housed in the Purdue University College of Education and was awarded $34.9 million over the next seven years (2024-2031) by the U.S. Department of Education to continue its efforts to support Indiana students and educators.
- Indiana GEAR UP Overview
- My GEAR UP Story: Faith
- My GEAR UP Story: Zion
- My GEAR UP Story: September
- My GEAR UP Story: Joseph
- Indiana GEAR UP Infographic
The Purdue University College of Education continues to prepare tomorrow’s educators and to support the education community. We welcome the opportunity to continue to train the educators of tomorrow in 2025.
The post 2024 Year in Review appeared first on Purdue University College of Education.
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