| Sherry's
interests lie at the intersection of learning, design,
and technology. Her research focuses on understanding
how to design social contexts for learning, facilitation,
and deeper reflection mediated by new media and networked
technologies. In particular, she is interested in design-based
research, collaborative learning, online pedagogy, and
media design. At the Exploratorium, she is studying
how mobile web content, handhelds, and wireless technologies
can be instructionally-designed to scaffold the process
of explanation and nomadic inquiry. In 2003, she was
awarded a grant from the NSF National Science Digital
Library program to create inquiry-based metadata and
an exhibit-based learning and teaching digital library
at the Exploratorium.
Before joining the Exploratorium, Sherry was a post-doc
scholar with the NSF-funded Center for Innovative Learning
Technologies (1998-2000) in the area of ubiquitous computing
with Robert Tinker of the Concord Consortium and Robert
Broderson at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
She studied the use of Palm computers and probeware
by students in a synergy research project on the topic
of water quality developed using the Web-based Inquiry
Science Environment.
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