curriculum vitae

Matthew Curinga
Adelphi University
Ruth S. Ammon School of Education
Garden City, NY 11530-0701

mobile: 917.335.0829
mcuringa@adelphi.edu
http://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

Teachers College Columbia University

  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Introduction to computers, language, and literacy (with Jo Anne Kleifgen)
  • Data driven website development