Sheri Vasinda

Sheri Vasinda is passionate about supporting readers and writers who find literacy difficult through purposeful pairings of new technology tools with strong evidence-based literacy strategies to amplify the effects of both. This work is often conceptualized and studied in OSU's Randall and Carol Reading and Mathematics Center. She continues to discover ways that technology mediates traditional literacies and affords authentic self-assessment opportunities. She explores frameworks of thinking about the technology integration and pedagogy as well as new literacies. She is developing new lines of research exploring teacher educator's technology integration for 21st century teaching and learning supported by the Alice Phillips Endowed Professorship in Elementary Education. She is also exploring how new and traditional literacies support content areas and STEM as principal investigator for One Community, One Challenge Pop-up STEAM Studios, an NFS funded project exploring digital documentation of community-based STEAM challenges. She is a co-author of Integrating Technology in Literacy Instruction: Frameworks for All Learners. Her work has also been published in journals and books such as Reading Research Quarterly, The Reading Teacher, Reading Horizons, Journal of Literacy & Technology, and Using Technology to Enhance Reading: Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction. She is a co-PI of the Concepts of Online Text and Research project, funded by an ILA Elva Knight Research Grant and a team member of the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age.

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Sheri Vasinda is passionate about supporting readers and writers who find literacy difficult through purposeful pairings of new technology tools with strong traditional literacy strategies to amplify the effects of both, which is often conceptualized and studied in OSU's Randall and Carol Reading and Mathematics Center. She continues to discover ways that technology mediates traditional literacies and affords authentic self-assessment opportunities. She explores frameworks of thinking about the technology integration and pedagogy as well as new literacies. She is developing new lines of research exploring teacher educator's technology integration for 21st century teaching and learning supported by the Alice Phillips Endowed Professorship in Elementary Education. She is also exploring how new and traditional literacies support content areas and STEM as principal investigator for One Community, One Challenge Pop-up STEAM Studios, an NFS funded project. She is a co-author of Integrating Technology in Literacy Instruction: Frameworks for All Learners. Her work has also been published in journals and books such as The Reading Teacher, Reading Horizons, Journal of Literacy & Technology, and Using Technology to Enhance Reading: Innovative Approaches to Literacy Instruction. She is a co-PI of the Concepts of Online Text and Research project, funded by an ILA Elva Knight Research Grant and a team member of the Initiative for Literacy in a Digital Age. She has received several teaching and research awards including the Regents Distinguished Teaching Award and the OSU President's Fellows Faculty Research Award.