Publications

  • “Toggling Between ‘Participant’ and ‘Observer’ @ HarvardX.” In Anthropology in and of MOOCs, published by American Anthropologist.  DOI 10.1111/aman.12143, September, 2014
  • “Bit by Bit: Innovating at the Periphery to Extend Harvard’s Core.” (with Henry Leitner)    Continuing Education Review, Vol. 72, 2008
  • “Evaluation of the Distance Education Program at the Harvard Extension School 2001 and restudy in 2008 (with Trisha Craig)
  • “Gathering Strength Through Teknannajii,” proposal prepared with Dr. Brian King.  June, 2002
  • “La tecnología al Servicio de la Informatica Educativa”  (Information Technology at the Service of Educational Reform) With A. Carrazco 2001
  • “Enseñando para la comprensión con tecnología informática- estudios de caso”   (Teaching for Understanding with Information technology-case studies) With A.Carrasco 2001
  • “Diagnostic Evaluation of the District of Bogota’s Technology Program (PIE)” with K. Bielaczyc and H. Hua 2000, HIID report submitted to the District of Bogotá, Colombia
  • Cybercy, an Emerging Performance Style,” presented at the Fourth Congress of the Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory, 2001  (in preparation for publication)
  • “Building School-Community Relationships,” with M. Goldman, Journal in Computing and Higher Education, Spring Vol. 9 (2), 44-70, 1998
  • “Designing Spectacle Island: A Case of Multi-media and Networking in Community Action,” with L. Pattison-Gordon. SIGCUE OUTLOOK Vol. 25 #3 July 1997
  • “The Role of the Internet in the Appropriation of Computer Modeling as Legitimate High School Science.” with B. Barowy. Journal of Science Education and Technology  Vol 6, No. 1, 1997
  • Reflections on the Use of Ethnography in Co-NECT, a Fast-Track Re-structuring Effort.”  Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 1994
  • “Developing Historical Imagination in Students,” a paper written for the Teaching for Understanding project at Harvard’s Project Zero, January 1994
  • “Teaching and Learning in and Out of School: The Case of the San Juan Peasant Children of Southern Colombia.”  Paper presented at the AAA Conference, San Francisco, December 1992.
  • “Learning in Developing Countries: Reconceptualizing the Educational Process,” With LeVine R.A., Bidell T., and Fuller B.  Report submitted to UNESCO and the World Bank. 1991
  • “Lessons in Milking and Lessons in Math” in Through the Looking Glass,  V. Bergum and J. Ross, editors.  Canadian Public Health Association, 1990.
  • “Embedded and formal education in San Juan, an Indian, Peasant Community in the South of Colombia,” unpublished doctoral dissertation for Cambridge University. 1988.  In preparation for publication.
  • “Inventive Thinking,” (With D. Perkins) a lesson sequence in Odyssey: A Curriculum for Thinking.  Watertown, MA:  Mastery Education. 1986.
  • “Etude du compartement aggressif d’un groupe des Maccaques vis a vis l’image spéculaire”  (Aggressive behavior of a group of Rhesus monkeys vis a vis a mirror image).  Final report on a series of ethological observations. Paris, 1977.