Personal details
- Name
- Associate Professor Kate Thompson
- Position(s)
- Associate Professor of Digital Pedagogies
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership - Discipline *
- Curriculum and Pedagogy, Specialist Studies in Education
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 3283
- kate.j.thompson@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Doctor of Philosphy (University of Sydney)
- Keywords
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digital learning, digital pedagogy, sustainability education, community education, informal learning environments, learning spaces, learning analytics, design for learning, design based learning, STEM education
Biography
I give priority to researching the processes of learning and teaching, particularly with technology. Technology can play a central role in learning and teaching in all subjects, but particularly those in which the complexity of the learning materials could benefit from the use of tools (such as immersive technologies, simulation models, virtual worlds, mobile devices, eBooks, physical and online learning environments) that enable students to understand, create or investigate a particular topic and that support teachers in their pedagogical practice.
Digital pedagogies, understanding complex socio-environmental systems, collaborative learning, the learning sciences more generally, and the development of innovative methods to inform design for learning in complex learning environments are important themes of my research. I take a systems view of learning, and consider the activity of both learners and instructors to be as important as the learning outcomes themselves. My main contribution in this area has been the development of methodological tools to generate actionable knowledge for teachers, learners and the designers of learning. Over the last ten years, I have co-developed a method of scaffolding teachers to include learning analytics in their teaching as well as identifying indicators of successful collaboration and progress towards the completion of a task that can be used to provide feedback to learners, instructors, designers and researchers.
I also do research about how scientists learn to do interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, the design and use of physical and digital learning environments, entrepreneurship education, makerspaces, and environmental education.
Teaching
In 2020 I’ve been responsible for teaching:
EUB101: Supporting Innovative Pedagogy with Digital Technologies
EUB012: Learning STEM through Teaching
EUN636: Designing for Connected STEM Understanding
Publications
- Thompson K, Chapman S, Kanasa H, (2020) Tools to mediate learning and self-assessment in a STEAM unit of work, Challenges and Opportunities for Transforming from STEM to STEAM Education p24-50
- Knight S, Thompson K, (2020) Developing a text-integration task for investigating and teaching interdisciplinarity in science teams, Research in Science Education
- Gosselin D, Thompson K, Pennington D, Vincent S, (2020) Learning to be an interdisciplinary researcher: incorporating training about dispositional and epistemological differences into graduate student environmental science teams, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences p310-326
- Howard S, Thompson K, Yang J, Ma J, (2019) Working the system: Development of a system model of technology integration to inform learning task design, British Journal of Educational Technology p326-341
- Flynn P, Thompson K, Goodyear P, (2018) Designing, using and evaluating learning spaces: The generation of actionable knowledge, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology pi-v
- Muñoz-Cristóbal J, Hernández-Leo D, Carvalho L, Martinez-Maldonado R, Thompson K, Wardak D, Goodyear P, (2018) 4FAD: A framework for mapping the evolution of artefacts in the learning design process, Australasian Journal of Educational Technology p16-34
- Lodge J, Thompson K, Horvath J, De Barba P, Blumenstein M, (2018) Learning analytics in the classroom, ASCILITE 2018 Conference Proceedings: Open Oceans: Learning Without Borders - 35th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education p559-561
- Martinez-Maldonado R, Goodyear P, Carvalho L, Thompson K, Hernandez-Leo D, Dimitriadis Y, Prieto L, Wardak D, (2017) Supporting collaborative design activity in a multi-user digital design ecology, Computers in Human Behavior p327-342
- Alhadad S, Thompson K, (2017) Understanding the mediating role of teacher inquiry when connecting learning analytics with design for learning, Interaction Design and Architecture(s) p54-74
- Pennington D, Bammer G, Danielson A, Gosselin D, Gouvea J, Habron G, Hawthorne D, Parnell R, Thompson K, Vincent S, Wei C, (2016) The EMBeRS project: Employing model-based reasoning in socio-environmental synthesis, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences p278-286
Supervision
Current supervisions
- The Emergency Remote Learning (ERL) Experience of Equity Groups in Higher Education: When Change Becomes Necessary
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Naomi Barnes - Application of ICT-Platform-Involved Contingency Strategy for Education Continuity during Pandemic
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Andy Yeh - Engaging Experienced Teachers with Continuous Professional Development: Using the TPACK Model to Enhance ICT Self-Efficacy and Pedagogy
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Michelle Mukherjee - Enhancing the capabilities and self-efficacy of Australian pre-service primary
teachers with design thinking.
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Natalie Wright