Katie Headrick Taylor

I study and teach about youth mobility as the process and content of learning. By nature, this research occurs at the intersection of mobile and geospatial technologies, the learning sciences, youth studies, and processes of civic engagement.

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I created this for my Interaction Analysis graduate seminar. If using, please cite as:

Taylor, K.H. (2022). How to process video data: So it’s safe for consumption. College of Education, University of Washington. [this url]

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Thanks for this story, UW News!

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Commentary on Big Data

How to teach and parent better in the age of big data in The Conversation.

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If you haven’t yet checked out our project website, please do so!

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Some photos from our Mobile SensEscape in the University District with University of Washington students!

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MCS Study Terrain

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Families are getting happier and healthier through "telemedicine" — apps that are designed to build empathy and awareness and encourage exercise and healthy eating.

I have some closing remarks to make about the “re-mediation” of keeping in touch with loved ones or sparking new friendships. Have a read, and let me know if you use any of these apps for your own health.

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The potential and dark side of Pokemon Go, enter Mobile City Science!

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Getting ready for our training next week! Looking forward to being with the whole team.

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New Cyberlearning and Future Technologies project with UW, Digital Youth Network, and New York Hall of Science!

Please take a look at our project that designs and studies youth mobility and mapping practices within their communities. We start in Seattle and travel to Chicago and New York!

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AERA Highlight: Connecting learning with place, space and personal experience

http://education.uw.edu/news/aera-highlight-connecting-learning-place-space-and-personal-experience

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A nice shout out on the co-authored design guide from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.

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“Representational competence” required

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Sticking with the theme of comics’ descriptions of life with technology.

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A “modern” trope on technology’s role in social isolation from xkcd

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Class trip to library

My graduate seminar visited the downtown/central location of Seattle's public library this morning. Several interesting points were made about the role of technology in processes of teaching and learning. Here’s a highlighted list:

I was most impressed by a staff comment about technology's role in personalizing learning rather than standardizing it. I found this purpose for technology to be counter to the industrial purpose of “innovation” to replace humans or make the work we do more standard and efficient. Are these uses actually opposite or just nuances in a wide array of tech?

I was also interested to hear about the library’s stance on mobility and "exploding the container" model of teaching and learning. Libraries, and this one is no exception, find ambitious ways of extending their reach so that access to information doesn't rely on a person being physically present in the building. This work -- an expansive model of teaching and learning -- requires a lot of community engagement and being responsive to a variety of needs that come from working with diverse publics.

Finally, the aesthetic qualities of learning are not just visible in the library space, but tangible as well. As a space for learning, the library is impressive and creates a sense of place that promotes self-respect and attention to being better than ones self. The design of the space provokes a sense of improvement. The attention to and pride in the aesthetic quality of a learning environment was in sharp contrast to the physical structures, especially internally, of some public schools that are unable to pay attention to this aspect of the learning experience.