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DAVID J. DELIEMA
Graduate School of Education
University of California, Berkeley
deliema [at] berkeley [dot] edu
EDUCATION
2015
Ph.D., Human Development & Psychology
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2008
B.A., Communication Studies; Minor, Spanish
University of California, Los Angeles
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2016 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education
2015 – 2016
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
AWARDS & HONORS
2016 — Participant, Early Career Workshop at ICLS 2016
2011 - 2014 — Recipient, 3-year NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship
2014 — Participant, ICLS Doctoral Consortium
2013 — Nominated, CSCL Best Design Paper (with Noel Enyedy and Joshua Danish)
2010 & 2011 (summer) — Recipient, UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
DeLiema, D., Enyedy, N., & Danish, J. A. (submitted). How play and games structure learning in different ways: A comparison of two collaborative, mixed-reality learning environments.
DeLiema. D. (2017). Co-constructed failure narratives in mathematics tutoring. Instructional Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11251-017-9424-2. (link to full article)
DeLiema, D., Lee, V., Danish, J., Enyedy, N., & Brown, N. (2015). A microlatitudinal/microlongitudinal analysis of speech, gesture, and representation use in a student’s repeated scientific explanations of phase change. In A. A. diSessa, M. Levin, & N. J. S. Brown (Eds.). Knowing and learning in interaction. New York, NY: Routledge.
Enyedy, N., Danish, J. A., DeLiema, D. (2015). Constructing liminal blends in a collaborative augmented-reality learning environment. Int'l. Journal of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, 10(1), 7-34.
Kawsaki, J., DeLiema, D., Sandoval, W. (2014). The influence of non-epistemic features of settings on epistemic cognition. Canadian Journal of Science, Math, and Technology Education, 14(2), 207-221.
DeLiema, D. & Steen, F. F. (2014). Thinking with the body: conceptual integration through gesture in multiviewpoint model construction. In M. Borkent, B. Dancygier, Hinnell, J. (Ed.) Language and the Creative Mind (pp. 275-294). Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
DeLiema, D., Saleh, A., Lee, C., Enyedy, N., Danish, J. A., Illum, R., Dahn, M., Humburg, M., & Mahoney, C. (2016). Blending play and inquiry in augmented reality: A comparison of playing a video game to playing within a participatory model. In C-K. Looi, J. Polman, U. Cress, & P. Reimann (Eds.) Proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (pp. 450-457). Singapore: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
DeLiema, D. (2016). The social organization of play, embodied cognition, and failure in STEM education. For ICLS Early Career Workshop. In proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Singapore.
DeLiema, D. (2014, June). Attributions and epistemology in conversation: How math tutors
and students co-construct accounts of failure and knowledge. For ICLS Doctoral Consortium. In proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Boulder, Colorado.
Enyedy, N., Danish, J. A., DeLiema, D. (2013, June). Constructing and deconstructing materially-anchored conceptual blends in an augmented reality collaborative learning environment. In proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Madison, Wisconsin.
DeLiema, D., Kawasaki, J., & Sandoval, W. A. (2012, July). High school students’ epistemic engagement in producing documentaries about public science concerns. In proceedings of the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Sydney, Australia.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
DeLiema, D. & Sweetser, E. (2016). Rethinking gestural viewpoint as multidimensional rather than a dichotomy. Paper presented at the International Society of Gesture Studies conference, Paris, France.
Lee, C., DeLiema, D., & Enyedy, N. (2016). Learning through physical action and gestural reflection in a first-person augmented reality science simulation. Paper presented at the International Society of Gesture Studies conference, Paris, France.
Enyedy, N., Danish, J. A., Lee, C., DeLiema, D., Saleh, A., Dahn, M., Illum, R. (2016). Learning about states of matter through multiple correspondences among the body, abstractions, and reality. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Washington, D.C.
Enyedy, N., Danish, J., DeLiema, D., Lee, C., Illum, R., et al. (2015). Science through technology enhanced play. Paper presented at the CREST Conference 2015, Redondo Beach, California.
DeLiema, D., Smith, M., Goodwin, C. (2015). Sources of knowledge in interaction: How geology and math students laminate resources in the process of knowing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Steen, F., Turner, M. and DeLiema, D. (2014, Novermber). Extending blended viewpoint in multimodal communication. Paper presented at the Twelfth Conceptual Structures and Discourse in Language conference, Santa Barbara, California.
DeLiema, D., Gravell, J., Johnson, N., Lee, U., McMillan, B., Tanskley, T., Eynedy, N. (2014). Deficit thinking as a potential mediator of social justice ideology in classroom praxis. Poster presented at the UCLA Research and Inquiry Conference.
DeLiema, D. (2014, July). Teachers and students’ collaborative work to render pointing gestures intelligible. In C. Goodwin, The intelligibility of gesture as a situated accomplishment. Symposium conducted at the International Society of Gesture Studies conference, San Diego, California.
DeLiema, D. (May, 2013). How Do You Know You're Bad at Math? Epistemic Dialogues at an After-School Program. Talk given at the UCLA symposium on Global Transformative Learning: Building Institutions and Changing Minds.
DeLiema, D., Enyedy, N., Steen, F. F., & Hoyer, D. (2012, July). Learning science by being you, being it, being both. In D. Abrahamson, You’re It! Body, Action, and Object in STEM Learning. Symposium conducted at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Sydney, Australia.
DeLiema, D., & Steen, F. F. (2012, April). The evolution of gestural blends around learning a new technical system. Paper presented at the Eleventh Conceptual Structures and Discourse in Language conference, Vancouver, Canada.
DeLiema, D., Steen, F. F., & Turner, M. (2012, April). Language, gesture, and audiovisual communication: a massive online database for researching multimodal constructions. Workshop conducted at the Eleventh Conceptual Structures and Discourse in Language conference, Vancouver, Canada.
DeLiema, D. (2012, April). A study of the live evolution of mental models through gesture. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.
Kawasaki, J., DeLiema, D., & Sandoval, W. (2012, April). Using media production as a lever for critical source evaluation. In C. Chinn, Learning from Others: Advancing Theory and Research on Learning from Sources. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.
Brown, N. J. S., Danish, J., DeLiema, D., Engle, R. A., Enyedy, N., Lee, V. R., & Parnafes, O. (2012, April). Representations, Interlocutors, and Their Influences on Apparent Knowledgeability. In M. Levin, Integrating Issues of Knowledge and Interaction in Analyses of Cognition and Learning. Symposium conducted at the meeting of The American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
DeLiema, D. (2016). Debugging failure. Invited presentation, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education Colloquium. October 17, 2016.
DeLiema, D. (2015). Failure and epistemic cognition. Invited presentation, Research Lab of Judit Moschkovich, University of California, Santa Cruz. January 14, 2016.
DeLiema, D. (2015). Modeling-play and game-play in participatory simulations. Invited presentation, Embodied Design Research Laboratory (D. Abrahamson, Director), University of California, Berkeley. December 1, 2015.
DeLiema, D. (2015). Failure storytelling. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission’s Project of Children's Basic Competencies of Learning and Innovation. Shanghai, China, September 23rd.
DeLiema, D. (2015). Fostering a modeling practice in school. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission’s Project of Children's Basic Competencies of Learning and Innovation. Shanghai, China, September 22nd.
Steen, F. F., DeLiema, D., Treynor, W. (2009). On being certain: Believing you are right even when you’re not. Krishnamurti Foundation America, Ojai, CA, November 14.
Steen, F. F., Treynor, W., DeLiema, D., & Jeong, D. (2009). Participatory knowledge and transformative understanding: Bridging some gaps between the sciences and the humanities. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, October 19.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2014 - 2015
Graduate Student Researcher for Noel Enyedy, Ph.D., Urban Schooling (Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies), UCLA
2013 - 2014
Teaching, Learning, and Knowing in Field-based Geology Studies
Research Assistant to Charles Goodwin, Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, UCLA.
2011 - 2013
Neuroscience of Role-mediated Learning
Research Assistant to Marco Iacoboni, M.D., Ph.D., Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA; Francis F. Steen, Ph.D., Communication Studies, UCLA; Noel Enyedy, Ph.D., Urban Schooling (Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), UCLA.
2010 - present
Berkeley/UCLA Gesture Group
Participant in bimonthly data analysis sessions advancing gesture theory.
2009 - 2010
Semiotic Pivots and Activity Spaces for Elementary Science
Research Assistant to Noel Enyedy, Ph.D., Urban Schooling (Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), UCLA
2008 - 2011
Image-Text Parsing for Understanding Social and Political News Events
Research Assistant to Song-Chun Zhu, Ph.D., Statistics and Computer Science, UCLA; Francis Steen, Ph.D., Communication Studies, UCLA.
2007 - 2009
Research Assistant to Francis Steen, Ph.D., Communication Studies, UCLA
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Summer 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 & 2011
Instructor – Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course title: COMMST 183 – Media and Mind
Summer 2015
Instructor – Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course title: COMMST 128 – Play and Entertainment
Spring 2014 & Winter 2013
Teaching Assistant – Graduate School of Education & Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course title: Educational Psychology
2011 - present
Volunteer Tutor (weekly), grant writer, and education consultant
9 Dots, Los Angeles, CA – Urban after-school STEM nonprofit (3rd-8th grade)
Winter 2014
Co-instructor – Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course title: COMMST 19 - Mindful Learning: Exploring Your Own Perceptions, Emotions, and Thinking
Spring 2013
Teaching Assistant – Department of Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course titles: The Gaming Mind; Social Communication & New Technology
Summer 2010
Guest Lecturer – Rishi Valley Education Centre & Center for Learning
Krishnamurti Foundation India
Co-organized psychology and cognitive science workshops
2008 - 2009
Curriculum Designer and Guest Lecturer – Communication Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Course titles: COMMST 128 & 129 – Entertainment as Implicit Pedagogy & The Gaming Mind
2007 - 2008
Course grader – Communication Studies, UCLA
Course titles: COMMST 162 & COMMST 128 – Presidential
Communication (Professor Tim Groeling) & Entertainment as Implicit Pedagogy (Professor Francis Steen)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2016 - Reviewer for Journal of the Learning Sciences
2014 - 2016 - Reviewer for the International Conference of the Learning Sciences
2015 - Reviewer for Cognition and Instruction
2015 - Host of Mark Turner’s talk on creativity at UCLA’s Marschak Colloquium
2014 & 2015 - Reviewer for the GSE&IS Research and Inquiry Conference
2014 — UCLA faculty search committee for GSE&IS
2013 - 2014 — UCLA Learning Sciences student representative
2009 - 2011 — Co-organizer (with Eve Sweetser) of the Berkeley/UCLA Gesture Group
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2011 - present — Volunteer at 9 Dots – Urban after-school STEM nonprofit (4th - 6th grade)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
AERA, Special Interest Group – Learning Sciences
International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)