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Dani Herro
Office: 101 Gantt Circle; 2nd flo
Phone: 262-337-0205
Email: dherro@clemson.edu
Vita: Click Here
Website: https://www.clemson.edu/education/programs/labs/clear.html
Educational Background
PhD Curriculum & Instruction
University of Wisconsin - Madison 2010
MA Administrative Leadership and Supervision
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1998
BS Elementary Education
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee 1990
Profile
Dani is the Co-director of the Digital Media and Learning Labs in the College of Education. She is currently a Watt Fellow at Clemson, investigating the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in education. From 2013-2016 she was an Edmund W. Gordon/MacArthur Foundation Fellow for 21st Century Learning and Assessment. Dani's research and teaching interests focus on helping advance digital media and learning in schools. She focuses her research on youth out-of-school practices with technology as a bridge between informal and formal learning, collaborative problem solving in makerspaces and technology-enabled environments, and exploring how STEAM education can promote equitable learning opportunities for students. Prior to her work at Clemson, she spent 20 years in public education as a classroom teacher, technology resource teacher and District administrator, writing two curricula for high school students focused on teaching computational thinking practices through games and App development. She served on Wisconsin's Department of Instruction Curriculum Digital Advisory Committee and at the national level worked with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Leading Edge Schools Cadre.
Her research-based STEAM book can be found here: https://www.tcpress.com/an-educator-s-guide-to-steam-9780807761380
Courses Taught
EDF - 315, Technology Skills for Learning
EDF - 425, Instructional Technology Strategies
EDF - 4800, Foundations of Digital Media and Learning
ED - 8380, Digital Media and Learning - taught in conjunction with Project-based Learning
ED - 8720, STEAM Transdisciplinary Teaching
ED - 8730, STEAM Assessment
EDF - 9050, A Critical Look at Social Media, Games and Emerging Technologies
EDF - 9110, Theoretical Foundations of Games for Learning
EDF - 9010 - Learning Sciences Seminar I
Research Interests
Game play and game design in the classroom
Youth practices with digital media
In-school practices with emerging technologies and effective professional development
Integrating STEAM in K-12 Classrooms
Collaborative problem solving