Professor Kimberly Gomez, from Professor of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, USA delivered a keynote speech at 5th Annual International Conference GIMAR – 2019 Japan

Kimberley Gomez’, Professor of Education and Information Studies, centers her work in examining teachers’ and students’ development and use of literate practices in formal and informal contexts. She employs the design and study of literate practices to enhance learning in mathematics, science, and technology use with an aim of informing theoretical and practical understandings. Gomez received the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1994. She served as a post-doctoral fellow and a research associate in the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) NSF-funded study at Northwestern, in Northwestern University’s, Learning Sciences program. Gomez is currently a tenured Professor of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is jointly appointed in the Information Studies department at UCLA. In 2018 she received the Bobbie and Mark Greenfield Faculty Award for Applied Research in Learning and Achievement from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and in 2017, she received the Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA’s Graduate School of Education. She is an Osher Fellowship recipient (awarded by the Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA). She is a Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media fellow (2013-14) and received the Harold A. and Lois Haytin Faculty Award, from Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA for her collaborative work with teacher practitioners. She is the author of over 50 refereed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceeding articles. Her speech at GIMAR 2019 would be great contribution to participant’s knowledge.