Very proud and happy to announce that PhD students Meirav Levin and Dina Jonas are the new  recipients of the prestigeous, 3-year long Zalman Aran scholarship for outstanding PhD students awarded by the Ministry of Education Chief Scientist's office. Meirav's PhD focuses on teacher learning of and about academically productive clasroom dialogue. Dina's PhD focused on low achieving children in elementary school classroom discussion activities.  

Report in the Jerusalem Post

On the innovation website NoCamels

On Mako.co.il

Our work on actual and inflated depression rates among Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers was featured in the May/June issue of the Observer, published by the Association of Psychological Science (APS). Here is a link to the feature titled "MTurk workers are more depressed - but bots and demographics inflate the data"

On January 14 2020, I presented our work on "Productive pedagogical discourse for teacher learning in professional learning communities" in a keynote talk at the I Congreso Internacional de Argumentación, Aprendizaje y Educación, at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago de Chile. The 2-day conference was organized by Prof. Antonia Larrain, and included presentations on argumentation, diaogue and learning from Brasil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, the UK and Israel. The talk has been made available on Youtube here