Matthew Curinga
Adelphi University
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education
Garden City, NY 11530-0701
mobile: 917.335.0829
mcuringa@adelphi.eduhttp://matt.curinga.com
education
Summer 2010
Teachers College Columbia University, New York, NY
Ed.D 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
1991-92
University College Cork, Cork City, Ireland
Year Abroad
academic work (full time)
2010-present
Adelphi University
Assistant Professor in Department of Curriculum & Instruction
Program Director, Program in Educational Technology
academic work (part time)
2009-2010
Intel. Strategy, Research and Assessment Team
Research Consultant, Technology in Education
2007-2010
StudyPlace Wiki, Columbia Center for New Media, Teaching, and Learning, New York, NY
Graduate Research Assistant
2001, 2007-08
Teachers College Columbia University
Adjunct Instructor
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
professional software development experience
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
K-12 teaching and schools
1996-1997
Computer Curriculum Corporation (now Pearson Education), New York, NY
Educational 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
1993-1996
Grady Public Schools, Grady, AR Bilingual/ESL Teacher, Migrant Education Coordinator
publications
book reviews
Curinga, M. (2011). [Review of the book Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia]. Teachers College Record.
refereed papers and presentations
Curinga, M. (paper presentation accepted, 14 Oct 2011). Building the learning commons: education as the work of producing open learning materials. Paper to be presented at Mobility shifts: an international future of learning summit. The New School, New York, October 10-16, 2011.
Curinga, M. (2011). [Discussant] Fusing Technology With Instruction: Finding Ways to Make Technology Effective for Learning. Symposium at the AERA Annual Meeting 2011. New Orleans.
Curinga, M. and Saravanos, A. (2010) Lessons learned from using a wiki as a course management system. Poster presentation at The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. Milwaukee, WI, USA, March 10-13, 2010.
Curinga, M. (2009) Wikipedia and Jacques Rancière’s philosophy of radical equality. Paper presentation at Wikimania 2009, academic track. Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 26-28, 2009.
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. Paper presentation at the 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. Paper presentation at the AERA Annual Meeting 2007. Chicago.
Kinzer, C. and Curinga, M. (2007) STEPS+G: A Framework for Multiple Perspectives to Enrich Latino Students’ Academic Writing. Paper presentation at the AERA Annual Meeting 2007. 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. Presentation at the Association of Latin American Scholars (ALAS) 4th Annual Education Across the Americas Graduate Student Conference. Teachers College, March 31 &; April 1, 2006.
non-refereed papers and presentations
Curinga, M. (2011). Teaching the Foundations of Open Education. Wikipedia Day 10th Birthday Celebration and Mini-Conference, New York University, NY, 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. (2010). [panelist] Pedagogical freedom. DebConf10: Debian, Free Software, and Education. New York, August 1-7, 2010.
invited talks
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.
works in progress
Curinga, M. (paper presentation in review). To know is not important: Ivan Illich and Jacques Rancière’s relational pedagogy. Paper under review for presentation at the AERA Annual Meeting 2012, Chicago.
grants
$62,500 (submitted to funder, under review)
Collaboratively produced multimedia materials in ESOL instruction
Google Research Awards, under review Aug. 1, 2011. Expected decision November 2011
$1,380
Robotics for Programming
Adelphi University Instructional Technology Grant, granted Feb. 21, 2011
$3,440
Wikiotics Design Research
Adelphi University Faculty Development Grant, granted Feb. 2, 2011
professional & community service
2007-present
Teunis G. Bergen Public School 9, Brooklyn, NY
Technology Advisor & Volunteer Programmer
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
Playing2Win Community Technology Center, Harlem, NY
Volunteer Teacher: Computer Programming and New Media Development
1993-1995
First Baptist Church, Grady, AR
Volunteer Adult ESL Instructor
Adelphi University service
School of Education Technology Committee
- co-chair, Spring 2011-present
Continuous Improvemet Advisory Team (CIA)
- member, 2010-present
- chair: Jane Ashdown
Senate Committee on Academic Information Technology (SCAIT)
- member Fall 2010-present
- chairs: Susan Eichenholtz & Marilyn Klainberg
Interactive Media Group
- member, Spring 2011-present
- chair: Linda Romano, Promotion & Outreach
courses
Adelphi University
- Learning with video games
- Community Schools and Society
- Technology & Instruction
Teachers College Columbia University
- Object Oriented Programming
- Introduction to computers, language, and literacy (with Jo Anne Kleifgen)
- Data driven website development