Karen Wohlwend

Professor

Departments/Offices:
Center for Research on Learning and Technology; Curriculum and Instruction; Learning, Design, and Adult Education
Academic Programs:
Early Childhood Education; Learning Sciences; Literacy, Culture, and Language Education
Research Areas:
Play, Early Literacies, Digital Literacies, Children's Media
Room:
ED 3056
Email:
kwohlwen@iu.edu
Phone:
(812) 856-8275
Website:
http://www.karenwohlwend.com/
Curriculum Vitae

About Me

My research reconceptualizes young children’s play as an embodied literacy that produces action texts made with moving bodies or animation rather than print on a page or screen. Taking a critical sociocultural perspective, I study play in playrooms, classrooms, museums, and makerspaces, looking at how players interact with toys, popular media, video games, YouTube, Twitter, and other social networks.

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Current research projects include:

  • Literacy Playshop: Critical media literacy through toyhacking and digital media in PK-16 classrooms
  • Literacy and STEM learning in a Doc McStuffins museum exhibit (with Dr. Adam Maltese)
  • Design Playshop: Embodied literacies in makerspaces (with Dr. Kylie Peppler)

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