Stornaiuolo to study digital discourse in secondary English classrooms

Amy Stornaiuolo has been awarded $2.49 million from the McDonnel Foundation for her project, “Facilitating Digital Discourse: Teachers as Learners in a Digital Age.” In the project, Stornaiuolo and her team will examine how secondary English teachers learn to facilitate digital discourse in their classrooms, specifically focusing on online discussions. Stornaiuolo will work with Penn GSE's Ebony Elizabeth Thomas as well as colleagues at the National Writing Project, the Philadelphia Writing Project, the Denver Writing Project, the Institute of Cognitive Science, and Stanford University to execute the research.