Elliott Soloway





About Elliott Soloway
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Quoting from a University of Michigan Website:


 * Elliot Soloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the U-M and professor in the School of Information, the School of Education, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.


 * Soloway is affiliated with the University of Michigan Digital Library and the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education. His research interests are the use of technology in education and developing software that takes into consideration the unique needs of learners.


 * Soloway is a principal investigator of the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools grant, which has been created with four partners: Detroit Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. The focus of the center's activities is the creation of strategies for embedding and sustaining the use of computing and communications technologies in the science curriculum at the middle school level. The center has a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.


 * As a member of the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan, Soloway is working to develop technology-embedded curricula for school-based programs, and has been in close collaboration with the Detroit Public Schools and the Ann Arbor Public Schools to produce a new generation of middle-school science curriculum that leverages the affordances of the emerging computational and communications technologies to uniquely scaffold students' learning and support teachers' instructional strategies.