Michelle Martin is the recipient of the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Mentoring Award. The award recognizes Michelle’s determination to encourage and nurture the scholarly work of others in the children’s literature field. She will be honored at the 2018 Children’s Literature Association Conference awards banquet this June in San Antonio, Texas.
The Children’s Literature Summer School in Antwerp, Belgium also invited Michelle Martin as its keynote speaker and tutor in July 2019.
Jevin West was invited to share his work in the following venues:
- Keynote speaker at the inaugural UW Data Science Summit.
- Invited talk at PARiS21 Conference on Truth in Numbers: The role of data in a world of fact, fiction and everything in between. The conference was sponsored by the Swiss Government and PARiS21, a global partnership on data and statistical capacity development hosted at the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
- Talk at the Seattle Rotary Club about misuses of statistics.
- Invited talk at the American Institute of Physics for its 2018 Assembly of Society Officers in Washington D.C. titled, “Combatting Misinformation in Science.”
- Guest on the King5 NW New Day Morning Show in a segment titled, Making Sense of the Facebook data mining scandal and how it affects you.
- Keynote speaker at the EBRC (Engineering Biology Research Consortium) Retreat where he discussed publication bias in science.
- Public lecturer for the Western Lecture Series, sponsored by Western Washington University, at Poulsbo City Hall on the topic of fake news and misinformation.
Adam Moore presented his work in the following venues:
- Microsoft’s Data Privacy Month: “Privacy: Its Meaning and Value (or . . .why you should love the GDPR).”
- Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) 43rd Annual Meeting at Caesars Palace, in Las Vegas, Nevada:
- “Privacy, Security, and Accountability.”
- “Intellectual Property and the Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Game Theoretic Justification of Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Secrets.”
- The Liberty Fund where he talked about “David Ricardo’s On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.”
Katie Davis was quoted in Chatelaine Magazine’s April 4th feature article titled, Being a Teen Girl on Social Media Is Like Having A High-Pressure, Full-Time (Unpaid!) Job. Chatelaine Magazine is the #1 magazine in Canada in paid circulation.
Liz Mills, Katie Campana, and Marianne Martens had a poster proposal accepted to the inaugural Connected Learning Summit at MIT Media Lab that will take place this August in Boston. The proposal, which will soon appear in its proceedings and will be published by Carnegie Mellon ETC Press (an open access publisher), is titled “Where the wired things are: A study of current technology use in public library programming for young children.”
Quinn DuPont’s first two (of five) eLearning modules of his Ethics of Blockchain Technology have been published on the IEEE website.
Last week the following members of TASCHA participated in UNESCO/ITU’s Mobile Learning Week 2018 in Paris:
- Chris Coward presented his invited talk titled, A dynamic approach to digital skills during Plenary #1: Defining and mainstreaming digital skills.
- Maria Garrido participated on the panel We can work it out: Building future skills for the digital economy.
- Maria Garrido and Stacey Wedlake delivered their presentation Mobile Information Literacy: Adaptable curricula for smartphone users in Myanmar and Kenya.