UM Partners

Adolescent Literacy Development

School of Education

The purpose of this study, funded by the National Institutes of Child Health and Development (NICHD), is to understand the complex relationship between the cognitive and linguistic demands posed by increasingly advanced content area reading and writing tasks and the motivational demands posed by adolescents’ development and exploration of many different pathways to adulthood.

BioKIDS: Kids' Inquiry of Diverse Species

School of Education

The mission of the BioKIDS project is to create innovative, inquiry-based K-12 science curricula that utilize current technologies such as CD-ROMs, PDAs and the World Wide Web for interactive study. We design and support six-week and eight-week programs centered around environmental science themes for students in urban districts like Detroit Public Schools. All our programs run during set time periods so individuals worldwide can coordinate their learning with many other participants.

hi-ce

School of Education

Hi-ce, the Center for Highly Interactive Classrooms, Curricula & Computing in Education, is an interdisciplinary group from the University of Michigan, including educators, computer scientists, psychologists, scientists and learning specialists. We are dedicated to educational reform through inquiry-based curricula, learner-centered technologies, comprehensive professional development, and administrative and organizational models. Hi-ce has been working to promote change in teaching and learning for over a decade with schools in Detroit and around the world. We help schools and teachers change through the infusion of innovative curriculum materials and cutting-edge technologies. Our intensive research efforts help us to constantly refine and adapt our products to meet the diverse needs of schools, teachers, and students.