Mimi Ko Cruz is director of communications for the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. She was part of the Connected Learning Alliance from 2014-2018, serving as communications manager for the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub, which was run by the UC Humanities Research Institute, based at UCI. Mimi has more than two decades of experience in communications, having worked as a journalist, including 14 years at the Los Angeles Times, and as a higher education public information officer. Her work in journalism and public relations has earned a number of awards over the years. Email: mkcruz@uci.edu
Mimi Ko Cruz
Articles
June 7, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Collaboration is Key to Learning Innovation
The importance of mentors, equity in education and how art helps us see the world differently, were the topics of the first three “Learning Innovation Conversation” series, hosted by the ExCITe (Expressive...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityMay 31, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Challenge Calls on Kids to Design Math Games
The objective of “Get That Pi,” a board game designed by a trio of students from a New Jersey intermediate school, is to earn money by correctly answering circumference or area questions...
Category: EdtechMay 24, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: How Video Games Amplify Learning
As a leading scholar of video games, game culture and game player behavior, Constance Steinkuehler argues that games amplify learning and academics. In fact, video games and esports “leverage and require an...
Categories: Edtech, ResearchMay 17, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Playing with Realities
The new Bloomsbury book, “Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay,” prompted its editors Antero Garcia and Greg Niemeyer to offer a symposium about augmented reality games and how they...
Category: New TrendsMay 10, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Free Online Class Features Art of Being Human
On what he thought would be a cool class lecture, Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch set out on a 41-mile run, while at the same time, controlling a video camera in...
Categories: Digital Learning, Educational PracticeMay 3, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Listen to Youth to Improve Education
Christopher Emdin, associate professor of science education at Columbia University, Teachers College, opened his keynote address at this year’s SXSWedu (South by Southwest Education) Conference with a little history of the Dinka...
Categories: Connected Learning, EquityApril 26, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: Apply to Present at DML2017 by May 1
Got an innovative program or research project dealing with connected learning or digital media and learning? We want to hear about it at this year’s Digital Media and Learning Conference, and the...
Categories: Digital Learning, EquityApril 19, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: How AI Will Transform Medical Practice
Armed with reams of data, a patient’s father convinced Dr. Anthony C. Chang, his daughter’s pediatric cardiologist, to proceed with her surgery. “A data scientist, the father of one of my congenital...
Category: New TrendsApril 12, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: UCI Dreamers Take a Stand, Help Each Other
As a junior computer science major at the University of California, Irvine, she felt “hopeless” watching fellow classmates landing scholarships, federal financial aid and paid internships. “I could not do the same...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Connected Learning, EquityApril 5, 2017
Watchworthy Wednesday: How You Could Win $250,000 for Being Disobedient
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words — “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” — open MIT’s Media Lab video, inviting nominations for its Rewarding Disobedience Award. The award, which comes...
Categories: Civic Engagement, Equity