Ximena Domínguez, PhD, is Director of Early STEM Research at Digital Promise. Her research examines factors and processes that influence young children’s STEM learning and school readiness, with the goal of informing early childhood education practices at home and school. Her work involves close partnerships with public school educators and families from culturally and linguistically diverse communities. To conduct her work, she draws on her expertise in early childhood education, STEM readiness, design-based research, assessment development, and mixed method research design. Her portfolio of work includes research and development projects that aim to co-design resources in collaboration with preschool teachers and families; evaluation efforts to examine how innovations are implemented and under what conditions they lead to expected outcomes; and assessment development initiatives with a focus on STEM and Dual Language Learners. In all projects she explores the unique affordances of developmentally appropriate technology and media for early teaching, learning and assessment. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), and local foundations. Ximena earned an M.S.Ed. in education from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology from the University of Miami.
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Events
Technology & Equity in Early Childhood
Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 5:15pm
CERAS 101 & Lobby
The topic of technology for early childhood is a controversial one. What do we know about the role technology can or should play in children’s early learning? How can early childhood educators guide families in understanding whether and how to use technology with their children? This session will approach this topic from an equity perspective, focusing on these issues as related to supporting under-served children and families.
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Ximena Dominguez
Director of Early STEM Research, Digital Promise
Maria O. Alvarez
Vice President, Common Sense Latino
Maria Alvarez is currently the Vice-president of Common Sense Latino at Common Sense Media. She created the program that offers culturally relevant content for Latino families, responding to their media and technology needs and interests. Maria is a seasoned media professional, story teller and content creator with over 20 years of experience working in the US, Central and South America. She is a lifelong learner who lives in Berkeley with her two bilingual boys and her husband.
Mark Bailey
Professor & Director of the Child Learning and Development Center, Pacific University
Dr. Mark Bailey is a Distinguished University Professor of Education at Pacific University in Oregon. Dr. Bailey has spent decades exploring the use of pedagogically powerful technological tools to support learning in classrooms ranging from preschool through graduate school. His work includes numerous federal and private grants supporting explorations of collaborative and project-based learning tools, and examinations of the appropriate use of technology with young children. Mark founded a school for young children that utilizes an intentional integration of best practices, and which incorporates innovative applications of technology to support the explorations of its digital-age students. He currently serves as an Early Childhood curriculum specialist overseeing the preparation of Masters in Teaching candidates, and as Director of the Pacific University Child Learning and Development Center.
Michelle Sioson Hyman
Deputy Director, Center for Early Learning, Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Michelle Sioson Hyman is Deputy Director at SVCF’s Center for Early Learning. This position designs and directs the Center’s high profile regional strategies, research and convenings. Michelle is also responsible for many aspects of the Center’s development, strategic partnerships and internal operations. Prior to joining SVCF, Michelle worked as Program Manager for Raising A Reader National and Program Officer for First 5 Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties. Her experience is varied- from executing large-scale convenings, developing RFP processes, writing multi-million dollar grant proposals, establishing MOUs with strategic partners, creating training curriculums, designing collaborative community research studies, to managing a national affiliate model. However, the variety of experience is also fairly focused, with over fifteen years of her professional career dedicated to improving the lives of children and families. Michelle has a master’s in public health from Yale University. She is also a board member for GirlVentures, a certified yoga instructor and a birth support doula.
