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G. Michael Barnett

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G. Michael Barnett

Ph.D.

Contact

Campion Hall Room 123

Telephone: 617-552-0658

Email: george.barnett@bc.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Instructional Systems Technology with emphasis in Science Education, Indiana University, Bloomington
  • M.S., Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

Courses

Teaching about the Natural World

Research Interests

Urban science education, educational technology, trust-building in university-school partnerships

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Expertise

  • STEM Teaching and Learning
  • Urban Education
Curriculum Vitae

Department

TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society

Publications

  • Zhang, H., Barnett, G. M., Jackson, D., Kiel, J., Beal, K., & DePamphilis, D. (2024). Moving beyond Hierarchies: Building and Sustaining Equity-Focused Collaborative Partnership over Time. In Boundary Spanning in School-University Partnerships. Information Age Publishing.听
  • Zhang, H., Hira, A., Phatak, J., Barnett, G. M., & Shah, S. A. (2024). Growing STEM Leaders: High School Youth as Teachers and Mentors through Teaching Physical Computing. In 艦. Orakc谋 (Ed.), Redesigning the Future of Education in the Light of New Theories, Teaching Methods, Learning, and Researches. Information Age Publishing. P. 168-182.听
  • Beheshti, M., Shah, S. A., Zhang, H., Barnett, M., & Hira, A. (2024). Affordances of Technology for Sustainability-Oriented K鈥�12 Informal Engineering Education. Sustainability, 16(16), 6719. https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/16/6719听
  • Konowitz, L., - Terese, - Lincoln, B., - Reed, M., - Liang, B., - Barnett, M., & - Blustein, D. (2022). Changemakers: Influences on Engagement in STEM Curricula Among Underrepresented Youth. European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, volume-5-2022(volume-5-issue-2-december-2022), 103-113. https://doi.org/10.12973/ejper.5.2.103听
  • Shah, A., Park, J. H., Raphael, D., Beheshti, M., Phatak, J. U., Sun, C., Hira, A., Zhang, H., & Barnett, M. (2024). Dynamics of Interest and Competency Belief in Coding among Middle-schoolers. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences-ICLS 2024, pp. 1586-1589听
  • Phatak, J. U., Hira, A., Zhang, H., Shah, A., & Barnett, M. (2024). Understanding the Peer Mentoring Experiences of High School Students in an Out-of-School STEM Camp: An Exploratory Study. In Lindgren, R., Asino, T. I., Kyza, E. A., Looi, C. K., Keifert, D. T., & Su谩rez, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2024 (pp. 1830-1833). International Society of the Learning Sciences
  • Shah, S. A., Phatak, J. U., Hira, A., Zhang, H., & Barnet, M. (2024). Smart Greenhouse: Bridging Physical Computing, Plant Science, and Data Literacy Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 2, Portland, OR, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635433听
  • Jackson, D. W., Zhang, H., Anderson, E., Barnett, M., Chao, J., Connor, C., Lee, H., Lee, I., Lore, C., Perret, B., Pallant, A., Phatak, J., Proctor, C., Shah, A., Wagh, A., & Grover, S. (2023). Computation within and beyond disciplinary communities: Learnings from K-12 in-school-time studies. In Blikstein, P., Van Aalst, J., Kizito, R., & Brennan, K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023 (pp. 1686-1695). International Society of the Learning Sciences.听
  • McKinley-Hicks, M. Suchow, A, Bennet, K., Cox, L., Faulkner, G., Hill, M., Barnett, M., & Zhang, H (2022). It鈥檚 Okay that you add your touch: Fostering imagining and creating through STEAM education. Connected Science Learning. 4(5). https://www.nsta.org/connected-science-learning/connected-science-learning-september-october-2022/its-okay-you-add-your听
  • Deoksoon, Kim, So Lim Kim, & Barnett, M (2021). That makes sense now! Bicultural middle school students鈥� learning in a culturally relevant science classroom. International Journal of Multicultural education, 23(2), 145-172.

External Funded Grants

  • Principal Investigator (Avneet Hira, Helen Zhang, Ruth Kermish, Shenqua Za, Co-PIs). Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses, National Science Foundation, $3,000,000, 10/01/24 鈥� 09/30/27.
  • Principal Investigator (Claudia Rinaldi, Maureen Kenny, Avneet Hira, Helen Zhang, CO-PIs). Building a youth-led learning community through automating hydroponic grow systems. National Science Foundation, 1,414,733. #204899, June 2021 鈥� June 2024
  • Principal Investigator (Helen Zhang, Co-Pi). Enabling opportunities for interest: Building capacity in youth for post-secondary success. Anonymous Family Foundation, $200,000, Sept 2020 鈥� August 2022
  • Principal Investigator: Building a pathway for urban youth to college, Linde Family Foundation, $160,000 Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang, Mr. Rajeev Rupani. Sept. 1 2018 鈥� August 30, 2020.
  • Principal Investigator: Change Makers: Urban Youth Food Justice Ambassadors, $1,997,930 National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang (艾可直播 College), Dr. David Blustein (艾可直播 College), Dr. Belle Liang (艾可直播 College). Sept. 1 2017 鈥� August 30, 2022.听
  • Principal Investigator: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Computational Environmental Science, $1,515,000. National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang (艾可直播 College), Dr. Ben Shapiro (University of Colorado-Boulder), Dr. Ludovico Cademartiri (Iowa State), Dr. David Blustein (艾可直播 College). Sept. 1 2018 鈥� August 30, 2023.听
  • Co-Principal Investigator: Broadening Participation by Middle-School Students in STEM via Integrating Hands-on Experiences in Science Learning, $299,621. National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator: Meghan Hill (Mosesian Center for the Arts), Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang (艾可直播 College), Dr. Belle Liang (艾可直播 College). 2018-2021听
  • Principal Investigator: Strategies: Seeding the Future of STEM researchers through emerging agricultural technologies, $1,198,658. National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang (艾可直播 College), Dr. Ludovico Cademartiri (Iowa State), Dr. David Blustein (艾可直播 College). 2016-2021听
  • Principal Investigator: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching Computational Environmental Science, $1,515,000. National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators, Dr. Helen Zhang (艾可直播 College), Dr. Ben Shapiro (University of Colorado-Boulder), Dr. Ludovico Cademartiri (Iowa State), Dr. David Blustein (艾可直播 College). 2016-2021

Honors

2024 Finalist Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics an Engineering Mentoring, National Science Foundation and the White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy.

2012 CASE/Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Massachusetts Professor of the Year.

Recent Media Stories



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Book Chapters

  • Debay, D., Haley, J., & Mark, S., Barnett, M., Anderson, A., Strauss, E., Cotter-Hayes, L., Blustein, D., & Wong, C. (2012). Engaging youth in visualizing sustainable urban plans for their neighborhoods using geographic information systems coupled with computer visualization (p. 477-496). Wals, A., & Corcoran, P. (eds). Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change. Springer, NY.
  • Barnett, M., MaKinster, J., Trautmann, N., Houle. M., & Mark, S. (2012). Geospatial technologies: The present and future roles of emerging technologies in environmental education (p. 327-344). Stevenson, R., Brody, M. Dillon, J., and Walls, A. (eds). International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. American Educational Research Association, Washington D.C.

Curriculum Materials and Textbooks

Connolly, K. Jarvin, L, Barnett, M., Rogers, C., Wendell, K. Wright, C., & Marulcu, I (2001) Science through LEGO engineering design: A series of modules.

  • McNeill, K., Strauss, E., Barnett, M., & Reece, F. (2011). Urban Ecolab.
  • Link to all modules which is one year of instructional materials:
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