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Technology for Literacy and Learning

August 22, 2014 – Professor Mark Warschauer has one foot firmly planted in the world of education and the other in information technology. In addition to academic appointments in both UC Irvine schools, he serves as associate dean of the School of Education and directs its Digit
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Technology and Autism

August 15, 2014 – Can technology benefit those with autism? UCI professor Gillian Hayes thinks it can and does. Hayes, whose primary academic appointment is in informatics (she also has appointments in education and pediatrics) told this week’s SURF-IT seminar series lunchtime a
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Practice Makes Perfect

August 01, 2014 – For some, it was a terrifying first experience; for others, the repetition of a task they’d faced before. But for all 10 of this year’s SURF-IT undergraduate students, who this week presented their research progress to-date, it was a practice session designed t
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Can iPads Enhance Medical Communication?

July 17, 2014 – The technology-in-medicine theme begun last week by Dr. Warren Wiechmann continued this week with Tuesday’s SURF-IT symposium, which featured Julie Youm, research director of instructional technologies at UCI’s School of Medicine. Youm is testing the school’s iMe
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