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Joe Sanchez

City University of New York - Queens College

United States of America - New York

Interested in a human-centered computational thinking that integrates everyday life (storytelling etc) rather than a computer science framework. My scholarship is built around the idea that humans and the technologies they build are bound together and any analysis of one must consider the other.

Biography

Dr. Joe Sanchez is a researcher and educator in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at City University of New York (CUNY). He studies the information worlds of Mexican-American high school students, Computational Thinking, and Undergraduate research experiences for underrepresented students. He is a Mellon Fellow and a Google/ALA fellow in the Libraries Ready to Code Program and a founder of the iSchool Inclusion Institute (i3).

After working as an Instructional Designer for ten years, Dr. Joe Sanchez pursued a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. His early work asks the question, What can early adopters of technology teach us about learning?

While faculty at Rutgers University, he created an Undergraduate specialization in Game Production and Innovation and helped to create an award winning Markerspace. In 2012 he was named as International Teaching Fellow at the University of Applied Arts and Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, where he worked closely with graduate researchers to design collaborative virtual work environments.

Dr. Sanchez has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, ABC News, USA Today, and Texas Monthly. His research bridges the areas of social and community informatics, new media, and learning while focusing on information practices in a social setting.