ETRA, KNPE to host graduate colloquia

Alison A. Carr-Chellman
Alison A. Carr-Chellman

Two graduate colloquia are planned in October in the departments of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment and Kinesiology and Physical Education.

Members of the ETRA Graduate Student Association will host “Boys, School Culture and Gaming” as a virtual event Monday, Oct. 11. The open forum is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. while the lecture begins at 5 p.m., both via Zoom.

Alison A. Carr-Chellman, professor and dean of the School of Education and Health Sciences at the University of Dayton, will review the status of boys in schools and will describe recent research that examines the potential impact of gaming in schools through the lens of teachers and boy-learners.

Carr-Chellman will share opportunities for gaming as a lever for changing school culture to encourage increased engagement among active learners.

Her research centers on system theories; diffusion of innovations; gender and gaming; instructional design; school change; negentropy; learning engineering; and online engineering. She has authored six books, more than 100 publications and has delivered more than 200 presentations, including international keynote addresses in France, Norway, China, Brazil and New Zealand.

For more information, contact Olha Ketsman at (815) 753-9687 or oketsman@niu.edu.

Steven J. Petruzzello
Steven J. Petruzzello

Steven J. Petruzzello, professor and associate head for Graduate Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will present “The Kids Are Alright—Right?” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in the Sky Room of the Holmes Student Center.

His talk will focus on physical activity and mental health with a particular focus on college-aged populations. It will also incorporate information about levels of physical activity in this group, with some discussion of how “exercise is medicine on campus” could be an important component of increasing physical activity and the concomitant influences that would have on mental health.

At UIUC, Petruzzello also directs the Exercise Psychophysiology Laboratory, where his research is aimed at a more complete understanding of the affective (including anxiety) and cognitive responses to physical activity and exercise, including the pre-to-post exercise, as well as the during-exercise, changes that take place along with individual differences that might lead to these changes.

His work has been funded by the NIMH and NIOSH. Media outlets featuring his work include the Associated Press, Health, Men’s Health, WebMD, Discovery Channel, Consumer Reports on Health and New Scientist. He has co-authored or co-edited three books and written numerous book chapters and refereed journal articles.

For more information, contact Emerson Sebastião at (815) 753-3656 or esebastiao@niu.edu.

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