[Colloquium] Thursday, 5/2 | Teachers in Social Media Project at the Computational Social Science Workshop

Mon Apr 29 07:51:21 CDT 2019

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSKAITLIN TORPHY, KEN
FRANK, AND HAMID KARIMITEACHERS IN SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECTMICHIGAN STATE
UNIVERSITY

The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:

TEACHERS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN THE FIFTH ESTATE
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi>

Summary: Dr. Kaitlin Torphy, Dr. Ken Frank, and Hamid Karimi will join us
from the Teachers in Social Media Project at Michigan State University to
speak about an emergent phenomenon, social media in education. The talk
will present the notion of a Fifth Estate within the digital age,
redefining network influence. As power and influence are negotiated across
executive, judicial, and legislative enterprises, media—the Fourth Estate,
and networks of influence amongst individuals within the Fifth Estate,
present a new form of educational professionalism. Here, educators,
researchers, and the community may engage directly in virtual space.
Dr. Frank will present the importance of curation within social media and
what we can learn from teachers’ digital traces. Dr. Torphy will present
research regarding teachers’ engagement within Pinterest, a prevalent
social media platform amongst teachers nationwide. Using both quantitative
descriptive and causal estimation approaches, she will present
entrepreneurial behaviors within education—the teacherpreneur— and their
response to the Common Core State Standards, a federal education reform.
Finally, Hamid Karimi will present early efforts to extend characterization
of instructional quality at scale using computer science approaches in
machine learning. For more information on additional work ongoing in the
Teachers in Social Media project, visit www.TeachersInSocialMedia.org
<http://www.teachersinsocialmedia.org/>.

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THURSDAY, 5/2/201911:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120

A light lunch will be provided by Good Earth Catering Company.

Ken Frank received his Ph.D. in measurement, evaluation and statistical
analysis from the School of Education at the University of Chicago in 1993.
He is MSU Foundation professor of Sociometrics, professor in Counseling,
Educational Psychology and Special Education; and adjunct (by courtesy) in
Fisheries and Wildlife and Sociology at Michigan State University. His
substantive interests include the study of schools as organizations, social
structures of students and teachers and school decision-making, and social
capital. His substantive areas are linked to several methodological
interests: social network analysis, sensitivity analysis and causal
inference (http://konfound-it.com), and multi-level models. His
publications include quantitative methods for representing relations among
actors in a social network, robustness indices for sensitivity analysis for
causal inferences, and the effects of social capital in schools, natural
resource management, and other social contexts. Dr. Frank’s current
projects include how beginning teachers’ networks affect their response to
the Common Core; how schools respond to increases in core curricular
requirements; school governance; teachers’ use of social media
https://www.teachersinsocialmedia.com/); implementation of the Carbon-Time
science curriculum (http://carbontime.bscs.org/); epistemic network
analysis (http://www.epistemicnetwork.org/); social network intervention in
natural resources and construction management; complex decision-making in
health care; and the diffusion of knowledge about climate change.

Kaitlin Torphy Ph.D. is the Lead Researcher and Founder of the Teachers in
Social Media Project at Michigan State University. This project considers
the intersection of cloud to class, nature of resources within virtual
resource pools, and implications for equity as educational spaces grow
increasingly connected. Dr. Torphy conceptualizes the emergence of a
teacherpreneurial guild in which teachers turn to one another for
instructional content and resources. She has expertise in teachers’
engagement across virtual platforms, teachers’ physical and virtual social
networks, and education policy reform. Dr. Torphy was a co-PI and presenter
for an American Education Research Association conference convened in
October 2018 at Michigan State University on social media and education.
She has published work on charter school impacts, curricular reform,
teachers’ social networks, and presented work regarding teachers’
engagement within social media at the national and international level. Her
other work examines diffusion of sustainable practices across social
networks within The Nature Conservancy. Dr. Torphy earned a Ph.D. in
education policy, a specialization in the economics of education from
Michigan State University in 2014 and is a Teach for America alumni and
former Chicago Public Schools teacher.

Hamid Karimi is a fourth-year Ph.D. student of Computer Science at the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Michigan State
University (MSU) and a member of the Data Science and Engineering (DSE)
lab. He obtained his B.S. (2010) in Computer Engineering from the
University of Isfahan and his M.S. (2012) in Information Technology from
Urmia University. His Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Jiliang Tang – an assistant
professor of Computer Science and Engineering. His research interests are
in machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, social
network analysis, and misinformation detection. He is an active member of
the Teachers in Social Media Project at MSU where he develops data mining
and machine learning models and algorithms to characterize instructional
resources in online social media. Mr. Karimi has published several papers
in the top conferences and journals on networking, social network analysis,
big data, and machine learning, and has several other papers under review.
He received several awards including the best paper award for his paper
presented at 2018 IEEE-ACM International Conference on Advances in Social
Networks Analysis and Mining, which is one of the top conferences in social
network analysis; the MSU Engineering Leadership Fellowship for directing
undergraduate summer research and education in the College of Engineering
at MSU; the best Student Service Award from the CSE department at MSU; and
the best poster award in the MSU Engineering Symposium 2019. For more
information about Mr. Karimi’s professional activities, please refer his
web-page at http://cse.msu.edu/~karimiha/

Some suggested background:

   - Attached in Repository: Teachers Turning to Teachers:
   Teacherpreneurial Behaviors in Social Media
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi/blob/master/Teachers_Turning_To_Teachers_Sep18_Clean.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: Educational Research in the 21st Century:
   Leveraging Big Data within Educational Research to Explore Teachers’
   Professional Behavior and Educational Resources Accessed within Pinterest
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi/blob/master/Educational_Research_in_the_21st_Century_082418.pdf>
   - Attached in Repository: Educators Meet the Fifth Estate: The Role of
   Social Media in Teacher Training
   <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi/blob/master/fifthestate_TorphyDrake_041119_clean.pdf>

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The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/torphy_frank_karimi> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>
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