School of Education faculty member David Williamson Shaffer recently offered his expertise on artificial intelligence in the classroom to a news story aired on WAOW-TV in Wausau. Shaffer Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of …
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Three School of Education faculty honored with campuswide Romnes, Kellet research awards
Three faculty from the School of Education have been honored with prestigious campuswide research awards from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education. Brian Burt, Lesley Bartlett, and Mitchell Nathan are …
School of Education’s Román, Shaffer honored with Distinguished Teaching Awards
Twelve UW–Madison faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators. Those honored have been selected for their distinguished teaching …
UW–Madison’s David Williamson Shaffer, YJ Kim to tour Asia and offer research ‘master class’
Two faculty from the UW–Madison School of Education are heading Asia to offer “master classes” on an innovative research methodology developed at UW–Madison. In a series of seven workshops and lectures across Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, …
David Williamson Shaffer interviewed by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about ChatGPT and education
A UW–Madison School of Education faculty member recently lent his expertise on the role of technology in education to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on how Wisconsin college students and professors are responding to the …
ChatGPT could help improve our education system, David Williamson Shaffer argues in Newsweek op-ed
In a recently published op-ed in Newsweek, School of Education professor David Williamson Shaffer argues the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT could have a positive impact on our education system — but only if educators approach …
Shaffer named Sears Bascom Professor
David Williamson Shaffer has been appointed the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics in the UW–Madison School of Education. The honor acknowledges Shaffer’s decades of exemplary teaching, mentorship, and research, which includes establishing the field …
Tan recieves Best Student Paper Award at international conference
UW–Madison’s Yuanru Tan received the Best Student Paper Award at this year’s International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 15-19. Tan is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Psychology’s Learning …
Nathan Shares Tips for Effectively Teaching and Learning in Daily Cardinal Q&A
The Daily Cardinal sat down with UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan recently for a conversation about his research, effective teaching, and study techniques. Nathan Nathan, a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the School of Education’s top-ranked Department of …
New study identifies problems with diagrams commonly used by chemistry teachers
Diagrams commonly used to teach chemistry concepts sometimes do more harm than good in students’ learning experiences, according to a new study from UW–Madison’s Martina Rau. The study, published in Journal of Chemical Education, found that …