Dr. Christine Greenhow is an educational researcher and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Minnesota.  She is also a visiting fellow in the Information & Society Project at Yale University, currently working on a book about education and social media. Christine earned her doctorate from Harvard University where she was a Larson Fellow. She is the recipient of the University of Minnesota’s 2008-2009 Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award for extraordinary scholarly achievement.  Her research focuses on learning in social media contexts such as online social networks, from learning sciences, new literacy studies, and learning technologies perspectives and always with the goal of improving theory, practice and policy. She is the Principal Investigator on the Youth and Social Media research & development project funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Founding Chair of the Social Networks Research Collaborative, an interdisciplinary research group funded by the Institute for Advanced Study. Her work has been featured in local, national and international news media. She has been active in national educational reform and policy efforts and is the co-founder of an award-winning educational non-profit. For more information please see the links at left.

NEW! Press release and related interview on our research on American Public Media’s Future Tense

NEW! Guest editor of the Journal of Educational Computing Research – Special Issue on Youth, Learning and Social Media

NEW! Web 2.0 and classroom research: What path should we take now? (2009). Educational Researcher

NEW! Old communication, new literacies: Social network sites as social learning resources. (2009). Journal of Computer-mediated Communication