Dr. Yotam Hod
I am currently a lecturer (Asst. Professor) within the University of Haifa, Faculty of Education. I direct the 'Future Learning Spaces' center, which is housed within the Faculty of Education and is part of the LINKS I-CORE Center. I am a co-PI on grant sponsored by the Israeli Science Foundation and Ministry of Education entitled "Taking Citizen Science to School". I am spending the 2018-2019 academic year at SUNY Albany as a visiting scholar (Marie Curie Global Fellowship from the European Commission).
My research interests focus on two important aspects of human life: statistical reasoning and technology-enhanced learning. The first refers to the kind of thinking involved in creating and evaluating data-based claims that are used ubiquitously as means of forming credible arguments and of making decisions under uncertainty. All citizens need nowadays to be able to engage in this kind of thinking processes and have basic statistical literacy and numeracy skills. It should therefore be a standard ingredient of every learner's education. The second aspect, technology, is rapidly transforming the way people communicate and collaborate, consume information and create knowledge, learn and teach. Educational technologies can mediate and facilitate thinking about complex domains – such as statistics, mathematics or science, making them more accessible to all learners.
Yael Kali, together with the TEL-Design Team members, explores learning and teaching with Information Communication Technologies (ICT), at various levels, from junior high school to higher education. Her work focuses on the role of design principles for supporting Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL). Kali serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Instructional Science.