education

Summer 2010

Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY

EdD Instructional Technology & Media

Dissertation: Social software and the struggle for freedom

Sponsor: Robbie McClintock

Spring 1999

MA Computing and Education

Spring 1993

Colby College, Waterville, ME

BA English

AY 1991-1992

University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland

Year Abroad

full time academic work

2010-present

Adelphi University

Assistant Professor, Educational Technology, RSA School of Education

Program Director, 2011-present

refereed articles & proceedings

Curinga, M. (in review). Critical analysis of interactive media with software affordances. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies.

Curinga, M. (in review) Ignorance, emancipation, and education in the information age. Educational Philosophy & Theory.

Sullivan, I., Garrison, J. R., & Curinga, M. (2011). Wikiotics: the interactive language instruction Wiki. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (pp. 223–224).

Curinga, M. (2009) Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière’s philosophy of radical equality. Proceedings of Wikimania 2009, academic track.

refereed conference papers & presentations

Curinga, M. (2013). The MOOC and the Multitude. The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, April 27 – May 1, 2013.

Curinga, M. (2012). Hacking Education, in Symposium Technology to Change Society: What Not to Do. Hackers On Planet Earth: Hope 9, New York City, July 13-15, 2012.

Curinga, M. (2012). To know is not important: Ivan Illich and Jacques Rancière’s relational pedagogy. Presented at The 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

Curinga, M. (2011). Building the learning commons: education as the work of producing open learning materials. Mobility shifts: an international future of learning summit. The New School, New York, October 10-16, 2011.

Hoffman, D., Saravanos, A., Hung, A. C. Y. and Curinga, M. (2011). Examining the importance of spatial contiguity and implicit learning in educational game design. Presented at Games+Learning+Society (GLS) 7.0, Madison, WI, June 15-17.

Saravanos, A., Curinga, M., Saravanos, A., Richards, R., Paek, S., and Kinzer, C. K. (2010). Examining the effects of instructor errors in asynchronous video. The 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, Denver, CO.

Curinga, M. and Hung, A. C. Y. (2009). Wikipedia and the emancipatory pedagogy of Jacques Rancière. TCETC Conference: Technology, Media and Designs for Learning. Columbia University, New York, May 10-11.

Kleifgen, J., Curinga, M., and Kaun, K. (2008) STEPS to literacy for emergent bilinguals: integrating web-based and curricular support for Latino middle-school writers. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2008. San Francisco.

Kleifgen, J., Curinga, M., and Kaun, K. (2007) Multimodal Resources for Writing: Students Taking First STEPS+G. The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association. Chicago.

Kinzer, C. and Curinga, M. (2007) STEPS+G: A Framework for Multiple Perspectives to Enrich Latino Students’ Academic Writing. The 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association. Chicago.

Arora, P., Curinga, M., and Kaun, K. (2006) STEPS to Literacy: Using First Language to Facilitate Second Language Writing through an Innovative Literacy Software Tool. Association of Latin American Scholars (ALAS) 4th Annual Education Across the Americas Graduate Student Conference. Teachers College, March 31 &; April 1, 2006.

Book Reviews

Curinga, M. (2011). [Review of the book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia]. Teachers College Record.

Invited Talks & Papers

Curinga, M. [symposium chair] (2013). The Poverty of Cognitive Capitalism. The 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, April 27 – May 1, 2013.

Curinga, M. (2013, accepted). Learning Management Systems: Moodle and Beyond. The Adelphi University 2013 Teaching, Learning and Technology Conference, April 10, New York.

Curinga, M. & Crowley, J. (2013) [invited speaker]. Encouraging Learner Agency. Hybrid and Online Teaching & Learning Seminar, Adelphi University, New York, January 10 – 17, 2013.

Curinga, M. [panel chair] (2012). The Occupy Movement: Youth Activism and Social Media. Adelphi University Seventh Annual Conference for Peace and Human Rights, Adelphi University, New York, March 29-30.

Curinga, M. [discussant] (2011). Fusing Technology With Instruction: Finding Ways to Make Technology Effective for Learning. Symposium at the AERA Annual Meeting 2011. New Orleans.

Curinga, M. (2011). Teaching the Foundations of Open Education. Wikipedia Day 10th Birthday Celebration and Mini-Conference, New York University, New York, January 15, 2011.

Sullivan, I. and Curinga, M. (2010). Wikiotics language lesson assembly studio. Mozilla Drumbeat Festival: learning, freedom and the web. Barcelona, Spain, November 3-5, 2010.

Curinga, M. [panelist] (2010). Pedagogical freedom. DebConf10: Debian, Free Software, and Education. New York, August 1-7, 2010.

Curinga, M. (2009). Education – Software – Freedom. Invited lecture, EdLab Seminar, Columbia University, New York. May 13, 2009.

Curinga, M. (2006). The STEPS+G and CTELL technical architectures: possibilities for building interactive language software. Paper presentation at the Second International Roundtable on Digital Language Learning. Tamkang University, Taiwan, December 12-13, 2006.

Curinga, M. (2001). [panelist] Wireless Stimulants: BREW and Wireless Java. CTIA Wireless & Internet Conference, San Diego, September 10, 2001.

White papers, working papers, technical reports, etc

Curinga, M. and Timlaris, L. (2010). Technology and Education Transformation. Technical report prepared for the Intel Strategy, Research and Assessment Team.

Curinga, M. (2010). Mobile Learning. Technical report prepared for the Intel Strategy, Research and Assessment Team.

Curinga, M. (2010). Education and the Semantic Web. Technical report prepared for the Intel Strategy, Research and Assessment Team.

Curinga, M. (2009). Web 2.0 and Learning: a review of literature. Technical report prepared for the Intel Strategy, Research and Assessment Team.

refereed articles in preparation

Curinga, M. The MOOC and the Multitude. Target Journal: New Media & Society.

book chapters in preparation

Curinga, M. (proposal accepted). Responsive web design for mobile learning. In D. Mentor (Ed.), Leveraging mobile phones and tablets in different learning contexts. New York: Teachers College Press.

Grants & Funded Research

2013

Mobile Cases for Peer-to-peer learning

$1,500,000, prepared for April 2013 submission

(Proposed) Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator of a federal Institute of Education Sciences (IES) funded study to develop and implement an annotated online video system to support peer-to-peer learning among novice Math teachers in New York City.

2011-2012

Robotics for Programming

$1,380, granted Feb. 21, 2011

Principal Investigator, Adelphi University Instructional Technology Grant

2011

Collaboratively produced multimedia materials in ESOL instruction

$62,500, unfunded Google Research Awards

2011

Wikiotics Design Research

$3,440, granted Feb. 2, 2011

Principal Investigator, Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant

2007-2010

StudyPlace Wiki: Explorations in Education, Communications, & Culture, Columbia Center for New Media, Teaching, and Learning, New York, NY

Graduate Research Assistant

2005-2007

Steps To Literacy, Teachers College, New York, NY

Software Developer & Graduate Research Assistant

2006-2007

CTELL: Case Technologies to Enhance Literacy Learning, Teachers College, New York, NY

Software Developer

courses taught

professional software development

2009-2010

Brainscape, New York, NY

Lead Software Developer

2002-2008

Nielsen IAG, New York, NY

Software Development Consultant, 2005-2008

Lead Programmer, Web Applications, 2002-2005

1999-2002

Crisp Wireless, New York, NY

Co-founder, Chief Technical Officer

1997-1999

Sohonet (now RunTime Technologies), New York, NY

Software Engineer

Adelphi University service

2011-present

Director, Program in Educational Technology

2010-present

School of Education Technology Committee

co-chair, Spring 2011-present

2010-present

Senate Committee on Academic Information Technology (SCAIT)

2010-present

School of Education Continuous Improvement Advisory Team (CIA)

Spring 2011

Interactive Media Group

professional & community service

2013-present

JCEPS: Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Advisory Board (member)

2012-present

Wikiotics Foundation, Board of Directors (member)

2011-present

Edu4, Technology Working Group (facilitator)

2007-present

Teunis G. Bergen Public School 9, Brooklyn, NY

Bilingual Education & Technology Advisor

2008-2010

spaces e-journal of arts and humanities, Teachers College, New York, NY

Editorial Board

2004-2005

ContentBank, The Children’s Partnership, New York, NY

Technology Advisor

1998-2000

Playing2Win Community Technology Center, Harlem, NY

Volunteer Teacher: Computer Programming and New Media Production

1993-1995

First Baptist Church, Grady, AR

Volunteer Adult ESL Instructor

k-12 teaching and schools

1996-1997

Computer Curriculum Corporation (now Pearson Education), New York, NY

Educational Technology Consultant, Public School District 32, Brooklyn

Fall 1996

Alternative Education Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala

ESL Teacher (grades 9-12)

1993-1996

Teach For America, Los Angeles, Houston, Arkansas

Corps Member, Curriculum Consultant and Instructor for Summer Institute

1993-1995

Grady Public Schools, Grady, AR

Bilingual/ESL Teacher, Migrant Education Coordinator

skills

computer

Python, Android, Java, SQL, HTML5/Javascript, PHP, LISP

languages

English, Spanish, intermediate Italian