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Four USC Rossier Faculty Win First Weintraub Prize
By Andrea Bennett on November 22, 2011 8:08 AM
Four faculty members from the USC Rossier School of Education Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program comprise the winning team of the first Weintraub Faculty Prize for innovative use of technology for learning.
The team of Anthony Maddox, Althea Nixon, John Pascarella and Brendesha Tynes worked on the Technology in Education Collaborative Hub (TECH), an archive of teaching and learning tools and resources centered around the latest innovations and uses of technology and media in education.
TECH, which initially will focus on science, technology, engineering and math content, eventually will provide a Teacher Learning Community for faculty to design, create and critique digital content.
The $10,000 prize was established this year by Los Angeles-based educational entrepreneur Roberta Weintraub. A member of the Los Angeles Board of Education for 14 years and president for three years, Weintraub was instrumental in instituting many forward-looking educational programs, including the successful Magnet school program now embraced by more than 160 school sites.
Among the early advocates of technology in education, she also was the founder and executive director of High Tech High L.A.
Weintraub also has established the Weintraub Student Prize for Innovative Technology and Teaching, a $5,000 gift that will award up to three USC Rossier MAT students who submit the best multimedia literacy based projects. Those winners will be announced in December.
USC Rossier’s MAT program has grown from an 80-student on-campus cohort three years ago to enrollment of nearly 1,600 with the 2009 launch of the online MAT@USC. The internationally recognized program now has students in 43 states and 25 countries.
The selection committee for the Weintraub Faculty Prize included USC Rossier faculty members Morgan Polikoff, Darline Robles and Alan Green, as well as Management Information Systems director Pixie Boyden, director of instructional technology Ryan Best and MAT program director Erika Klein.
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