Personal Information
 

                                                  calla@media.mit.edu

Education

University

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Massachusetts
PhD candidate in Media Arts and Sciences - Media Laboratory

• Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts
M.Ed. Educational Media and Technology - School of Education

• EAFIT University

Medellín, Colombia
B.S. in Computer Science, June 1993. Thesis: "Design of an Information System to Help a Non-Profit Organization with the Primary Care of Homeless Children (PAN)"

High School & Elementary School

• Colegio Palermo de San Jose.

Medellín, Colombia (1974-1985)

Other Studies
 

• Art History and Creativity. Michelangelo Academy Medellín, Colombia. (1977-1979)

• Drawing. Rozo Arts Academy Medellín, Colombia. (1980-1988) 

Research Experience

The Future of Learning Group (1996-present).

• Learning in Rural Communities project

• One teacher school project

• Learning Hubs

• Con-science Project

• Project Unwired (LINCOS) in Costa Rica

• Project Lighthouse in Thailand

• Computer Clubhouse project

Center For Educational Computer Initiatives (1994-1998)

• Project Athena Muse 2

 Center for Education Computing, EAFIT University, Colombia (August 1994 – 1998)

• Conexiones Project 

Teaching Experience

• “A Model for Constructionist Development” In collaboration with Bakhtiar Mikhak and Eleonora Badilla-Saxe. INCAE (Spring, 2002)

• The Built-It-Yourself Lab (1996 - 1998) 

• Build your own science instrument Museum Explora, Colombia (Summer, 1999)

• Robotics workshop (rural community children) EAFIT University

• Constructing Knowledge workshop (Summer, 1997)

• ADL programming language for undergraduate students, TA (1995-1996)

Publications

• Urrea, Claudia. (2003) Social Change. Published at Communications Initiative: News about communications and devlopment. 

  Issue No. 49 May, 2003. 

• Urrea, Claudia. (2002). “Rethinking and Redefining the Development of Teachers as Generators of Change”.   VI Colombian Conference on Educational Technology - RIBIE (Iberoamerican Network on Educational Technology) EAFIT University Medellín, Colombia, July 10, 2002 [download Spanish]  [download English]

• Urrea, Claudia. (2002). “The Reflective Practice within a Constructionist Environment.” Siglo Digital. No. 6 and 7. Mexico, Junio – Julio 2002. 

• Urrea, Claudia. (2001). “Designing Robotic Artifacts: Rural School-Community Collaboration for Learning.” Thinkcycle workshop. Boston, August 2001. A Spanish version of the same paper was published at the EDUTEKA http://www.eduteka.org/ Cali - Colombia, October 2001 [download]

• Urrea, Claudia (2001) “Learning, Robotics and Culture: A proposal for rural development.” International Conference in Technology and Education (ICTE) Tallahassee, 2001.

• Bers, M. & Urrea, C. (2000) “Technological Prayers: Parents and Children Working with Robotics and Values.” In Robots for Kids: Exploring New Technologies for Learning Experiences. Edited by A. Druin & J. Hendler. [download]

• Zea, C.M., Trujillo, J., Atuesta, M. del R., Urrea, C. M. and Sanin, S. M. (1996) “Conexiones: An interactive learning environment.” ED-MEDIA 96--World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia and ED-TELECOM 96--World Conference on Educational Telecommunications. Boston, June 1996.

• Urrea, Claudia. (1995) “ADL: A Scripting Language for the Development of Multimedia Applications.” Educational Computing Memo, Universidad EAFIT. Medellín, Colombia. June 1995.

• Urrea, Claudia and Orrego, Jaime. (1993) “Design of an Information System to Help a Non-Profit Organization with the Primary Care of Homeless Children.” In Revista Universidad EAFIT, No. 93. Medellín, Colombia. November 1993.

• Urrea, Claudia and Orrego, Jaime. (1993) “An Information System for PAN, a Non-Profit Organization.” B.S. Computer Science Thesis, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia. May 1993.

Presentations/Invited Talks

• Urrea, Claudia. “Rethinking and Redefining Teacher’s development as Generators of Change”. VI Congreso de Informatica Educativa. Medellìn , Colombia. July 11, 2002.

• Urrea, Claudia. “Design of Robotic Artifacts to Enhance Different Learning Environments.” Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning Conference. Puerto Rico, December 2001

• Urrea, Claudia. “Robotics to support learning within Rural Communities.” Tecnoeduca – Guatemala City – Guatemala, November 2000.        Tecnoeduca – San Salvador - El Salvador, September 2000.

• Resnick, M., Martin, F., Berg, R., Borovoy, R., Colella, V., Eisenberg, M., Kramer, K., Mikhak, B. Silverman, B., and Urrea, C. (1998). “Digital Manipulatives.” The ICLS’98 conference, Atlanta, December 1998.

• Urrea, Claudia. Innovations in Educational Technology. Colciecias, Bogotá - Colombia, March 1999.

Volunteer Work

• The Computer Clubhouse at The Computer Museum. Massachusetts. (1996 – 1999)

• The Built-It-Yourself Lab. (1996 - 1998)

• Santa Ana Asylum. Medellín, Colombia. (1990-1992)

Mail to (Claudia Urrea): calla@media.mit.edu

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