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Thesis submitted for the MS Educational Psychology degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
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July 2005 - September 2005, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Visiting Scholar: Developed tools for classroom research. Analyzed data for studies on how children learn to read, and how novices and experts watch classroom video.
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Strictly speaking, this wasn’t a travel trip, as I never left Urbana-Champaign. But the pictures were too nice to pass up.
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Met up with Anurupa, who was studying at the Scuola Della Guaratelle in Napoli that summer. Fell in love with the soft doughy and incredibly flavourful Napolitan Pizzas. Pictures - ylog.org/2002trip
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One of the nicest things about studying in the US was that stopovers on the way home to India for vacations were so much fun. In March 2001, I stopped at Stockholm and met Bunti in Oxford before flying to Delhi for a surprise visit. In December, I travelled through Vienna with Abhilash and Mike, and went skiing on the Stubai Tal glacier near Innsbruck. Some pictures here.
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Spent a month at SECMOL - the Students Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh, as a mathematics resource person for their Primary Teacher Training Programme. Pictures - ylog.org/ladakh
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www.thefamilyindia.org - A WordPress powered site that acts as a content management system. Uses drop down menus and was set up in 24 hours.
www.familyvision.info - Simple HTML + CSS for the Delhi Chapter of The Family India
www.familyindiatsunamirelief.ylog.org - Set up in less than a day to show how The Family India’s Tsunami Relief efforts were progressing.
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www.oryx.com - The design brief was that the site must look like a solid, highly competent German technical firm. Uses only CSS to achieve a bottom aligned, three-column layout.
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November 2004 - August 2006, Centre for Research in Cognitive Systems, NIIT, New Delhi, India
Research Consultant: Studying emergent phenomena in computer and social systems.
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www.wiproeducation.com - A wordpress powered site that allows the Wipro Education team and its partner organizations to update content on their own. Allows multiple paths to the same content depending on how the visitor approaches the site.
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www.industrialtheatre.net - A strong, stark and simple design, using Cascading Style Sheets and a simple randomizer javascript to create a quirky ‘industrial’ effect.
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Kumar, S., & Miller, K. (May, 2005). Let SMIL be your umbrella: Software tools for transcribing, coding, and presenting digital video in behavioral research. Behavior Research Methods, 37(2), pp. 359-367. Download draft pdf More…
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Kumar, S., (2005, April 15). Presented an invited talk on “The Game of Life: An introduction to Cellular Automata” to the Dept of Physics at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. More…
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June 2004 - June 2005, NEEV, India
Senior Researcher: Curriculum mapping; qualitative video-based research on classroom processes.
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May 2005, British Council Library, New Delhi, India
Conducted a day-long Mathematics appreciation and enjoyment workshop for 12-14 year students, as part of the Newton’s Playground series of workshops.
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May 2004
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department of Educational Psychology (Division of Cognition, Language, Learning, Instruction and Culture)
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Kumar, S. (2004, April 22). Led discussion on ‘The Roots of Empathy: The Shared Manifold Hypothesis and the Neural Basis of Intersubjectivity‘ (Vittorio Gallese). Artificial Neural Networks and Computational Brain Theory Seminar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [www.anncbt.org]
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Kumar, S. & Correa, C. (2004, April 14). Out of order: Extracting patterns from sequences of lesson codes. In K.F. Miller (Chair), Making Lesson Structure Visible: Alternative Analysis Techniques Applied to a Large International Mathematics Data Set. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
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Correa, C. & Kumar, S. (2004, April 14). Charting the course: Navigating lesson data through visual representations. In K.F. Miller (Chair), Making Lesson Structure Visible: Alternative Analysis Techniques Applied to a Large International Mathematics Data Set. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
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Kumar, S. & Correa, C. (2004, April 12). Lightweight tools for working with digital video: Using SMIL to automate research tasks. Roundtable discussion at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
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Kumar, S. (2003, November 13). Led discussion on ‘The Spontaneous Self-Organization of an Adaptive Language‘ (Luc Steels). Artificial Neural Networks and Computational Brain Theory Seminar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [www.anncbt.org]
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Kumar, S. (2003). “I feel sad when you teach emotional intelligence”: A Critical View of Formal Emotional Learning Programmes in Schools. Open Schooling Association of the Commonwealth (OSAC) Journal of Open Schooling (2)2.
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Kumar, S., Correa, C. & Sims, L.M. (2003, April 21). First and Foremost: Examining lesson introductions by Chinese and American elementary school mathematics teachers. In K. F. Miller (Chair), Making Teaching Public: Studying Teacher Thinking Using Video Techniques. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago. More…
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Sims, L. M., & Kumar, S. (2002, April 4). Working with digital video: A guide for the perplexed. In K. F. Miller (Chair), Digital video records of classroom mathematics: How to make them and what we can learn from them. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. More…
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August 2002 - December 2003, Cognitive Development Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Designed and maintained two web sites:
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July 2002 - Current, Ask Dr. Math, Math Forum, Drexel University
Member of the team of Math doctors at www.mathforum.org/dr.math, an award winning online question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
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August 2001 - December, 2002, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Teaching Assistant for three semesters for ‘Computer Simulation in the Social Sciences,’ a graduate level methods course that uses the Mathematica programming language to simulate macro-level phenomena using agent-based interactions. The course was taught by Richard Gaylord.
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May 2001 - May 2004, Cognitive Development Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research programmer for several projects - with Kevin Miller [University of Michigan, Beckman Institute, TimelySnow]:
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September 2000 - May 2004, Cognitive Development Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Assistant - with Kevin Miller [University of Michigan, Beckman Institute, TimelySnow]:
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June 2000 - July 2000, SECMOL, Ladakh, India
Resource Person: Assisted a mathematics program for primary teachers organized by the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh.
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May 2000, Nirantar, Lucknow, India
Resource Person: Trained rural middle-school math teachers in the use of innovative math activities.
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March 2000 - May 2000, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Documentation Designer: Designed and implemented an SGML based documentation system for a dynamic information server developed for Kidata AG (Germany)
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November 1999 - May 2000, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, India
Research Assistant: Collected and analysed data, and drafted a report for a study on the policy implications of Operation Blackboard - a primary education resource initiative by the Government of India. The study was conducted by Dr AK Jalaluddin (former Jt Director NCERT, UNDP Consultant for Bangladesh Education, and Director, Directorate of Adult Education, India)
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May 1999 - September 1999, Centre for Research in Cognitive Systems, NIIT, New Delhi, India
Research Associate: Studied the impact of a project on ‘Minimally Invasive Education’ (MIE). Presented a paper on “Learning from Kiosks” at the F13 Conference at Dwarka, August, 1999. More…
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November 1999 - February 2000, NEEV, and Cambridge Primary School, New Delhi, India
Coordinated and implemented the math program at a learning improvement project for Grade III children conducted by Prof AK Jalaluddin.
June 1999, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, India
Illustrated course material for the distance education B.Ed Program.
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March 1999, National Commission for Women, New Delhi, India
Designed a poster on Sexual Harassment which was released on International Women’s Day and eventually used all over India.
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May 1999 - June 1999, NEEV, New Delhi, India
As a Co-organizer and Facilitator, I developed and implemented the Mathematics curriculum of a month-long creative learning workshop organized by Prof AK Jalaluddin
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April 1999, Army Public School, Udhampur (Army HQ, Northern Command), India
Conducted a week long Mathematics appreciation and enjoyment workshop for all Grade IX students.
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July 1998 - September 1999, Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi, India
Created innovations in mathematics education as a consultant for the middle school Mathematics program. I worked in conjunction with the regular mathematics teachers and, based on their requirements, designed and implemented games and activities in and out of the classroom that either introduced a new concept, developed mathematical skills or reinforced a particular idea. The primary objective was to make learning mathematics more interesting and fun.
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July 1998 - January 1999, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Software Engineer and Resource provider: Planned resources for projects, staffed and trained project teams, and studied new technologies.
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January 1998 - June 1998, AmSoft Systems, New Delhi, India
Trainee as part of the Practice School II program of BITS, Pilani: Designed and developed a template based TV and Web Information graphics production system.
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August 1995 - December 1997, BITS Pilani
Art editor for the college yearbooks published in 1995, 1996 and 1997
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Ahuja, R., Dangwal, R., Kumar, S. (1999, August 13). Learning from kiosks. Paper presented at the NIIT CRCS F13 Conference at Dwarka, India. [Learning-From-Kiosks.pdf]
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May 1996 - June 1998, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, India
Co-authored (with Jaya Narasimhan) and illustrated a series of three Mathematics textbooks for middle school published by a division of McGraw Hill. (ISBN 0-07-463294-9, 0-07-463295-7, 0-07-463297-3). The series has been acclaimed for its use of cartoons and puzzles.
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August 1996 - March 1997, BITS, Pilani
Designed and edited Cactus Flower, the college annual magazine. More…
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May 1996 - July 1996, The Hindustan Times, New Delhi, India
Wrote and illustrated features for the newspaper. I was a Trainee as part of the Practice School I program of BITS, Pilani
June 1995 - July 1995, R&D Center, National Institute of Information Technology (NIIT), New Delhi, India
Resource person for teaching animation to children of the age group 9 to 12, as part of a five day LEDA (Learning through Exploration and Development Activity) workshop.