Anna Keune received postdoctoral training at the University of California, Irvine, and the Ruhr-University Bochum with a focus on STEM equity in out-of-school settings and adaptive educational technologies. Prior to this, Anna graduated with a PhD in Learning Sciences from Indiana University in 2020. Her dissertation on fiber crafts as a context for computer science education won the prestigious Indiana University Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award. Anna also studied New Media Art and Design at Aalto University and was a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology. Anna is currently serving as a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and as co-chair of the Publications Committee of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).
Selected Awards
2021, ASEE Pre-College Engineering Education (PCEE) Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education
2020, University Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award, Indiana University
2020, Best Student Paper Award, AERA SIG Advanced Technologies for Learning & Learning Sciences (ALT/LS)
2019, Systers Pass It On Award, AnitaB.org
Research Interests
STEM and digital skills continue to face lopsided gender representation. Leveraging socio-material historicities for learning promises to foster sustainable and equitable STEM education. At the intersection of learning sciences and design scholarship, my research focuses on advancing the understanding of how materials can foster STEM domain understanding for all students, transform what counts as STEM participation, and widen who participates. Guided by constructionist and posthumanist theoretical commitments as well as participatory approaches to design, I investigate creative design technologies and computational crafts in school and out-of-school settings to advance understanding in the materiality of STEM learning, gender equity in STEM, and design technologies for inclusive STEM learning by leveraging creative tools and materials.
Selected Publications
Keune, A., Yankova, N., & Peppler, K. (2021). #quiltsforpulse: Connected and shared production-centered socio-political activism through craftivism. Learning, Media and Technology, 0(0), 1-17. Doi: 10.1080/17439884.2021.1961147.
Keune, A., Zambrano-Gutiérrez, J., Phonethibsavads, A., & Peppler, K. (2021). The unexamined influence: An object’s perceived gender on spatial reasoning skills in girls. In N. Rummel & U. Hoppe (Eds.), Reflecting the past and embracing the future: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting 2021 (pp. 629-632). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Keune, A., Yankova, N., & Peppler, K. (2021). Crafting human-material collaborative learning processes and technology advances. In N. Rummel & U. Hoppe (Eds.), Reflecting the past and embracing the future: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting 2021 (pp. 193-196). Bochum, Germany: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Keune, A. & Peppler, K., (2020). Tuning into the craft: Materials as a driver of learning computing. In M. Gresalfi & I. Horn (Eds.), The interdisciplinarity of the learning sciences: International conference of the learning sciences (ICLS) 2020 (pp. 769-770). Nashville, TN: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Keune, A., Peppler, K., & Wohlwend, K. (2019). Recognition in makerspaces: Supporting opportunities for women to “make” a STEM career. Computers and Human Behavior, 99, 368-380. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.013
Keune, A. & Peppler, K. (2019). Materials-to-develop-with: The making of a makerspace. The British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(1), 280-293. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12702
Peppler. K. & Keune, A. (2019). “It helps create and enhance a community”: Youth motivations for making portfolios. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 26(3), 234-248. doi: 10.1080/10749039.2019.1647546
Wohlwend, K., Peppler, K., Keune, A., & Thompson, N. (2017). Making sense and nonsense: Comparing mediated discourse and agential realist approaches to materiality in a preschool makerspace. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 17(3), 444-462. doi: 10.1177/1468798417712066
Leinonen, T., Keune, A., Veermans, M., & Toikkanen, T. (2016). Mobile apps for reflection in learning: A design research in K‐12 education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(1), 184-202. doi:10.1111/bjet.12224
Fischer, Frank; Sommerhoff, Daniel; Keune, Anna: Perspectives on learning from the learning sciences. In: International Encyclopedia of Education(Fourth Edition). Elsevier, 2023 mehr…BibTeX
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Hurtado, Santiago; Leinonen, Teemu; Keune, Anna: Personally Meaningful Design: Sound Making to Foster Engineering Practices with Artifacts from Home. Sustainability 15 (20), 2023, 14962 mehr…BibTeX
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Peppler, K., Keune, A., Bender, S., & Yankova, N.: Theorizing mathematical unitizing through fiber crafts. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023, 2023 In Blikstein, P., Van Aalst, J., Kizito, R., & Brennan, K. (Eds.), pp. 966-969 mehr…BibTeX
Saxena, P., Keune, A., Thompson, N., & Peppler, K.: To quilt is to math: Investigating the breadth and depth of mathematics in fiber crafts. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences - ICLS 2023, 2023In Blikstein, P., Van Aalst, J., Kizito, R., & Brennan, K. (Eds.), pp. 178-185 mehr…BibTeX
2022
Keune, A.: Performing algorithms: Weaving as promising context for computational learning. International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting 2022, ICLS, 2022C. Chinn, E. Tan, C. Chan, & Y. Kali (Eds.), pp. 957-960 mehr…BibTeX
Keune, A., Ruiz-Cabello, P., & Hurtado, S.: Exploring the Use of Fiber Crafts With Soft Robotics for Connected Engineering Learning. Proceedings of the 2022 Connected Learning Summit, 2022, pp. 50–58 mehr…BibTeX
Keune, A., Ruiz-Cabello, P., Peppler, K., Chappell, K., & Rowsell, J.: Mapping Posthuman Methodological Innovation in the Study of Learning. International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All: International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting 2022, 2022, pp. 113-116 mehr…BibTeX
Keune, A.; Peppler, K.; Dahn M.: Connected portfolios: open assessment practices for maker communities. Information and Learning Sciences, 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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Keune, Anna: Material syntonicity: Examining computational performance and its materiality through weaving and sewing crafts. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022, 1-32 mehr…BibTeX
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Letourneau, Susan M; Bennett, Dorothy T; Liu, ChangChia; Argudo, Yessenia; Peppler, Kylie; Keune, Anna; Dahn, Maggie; McMillan Culp, Katherine: Observing Empathy in Informal Engineering Activities with Girls Ages 7–14. Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER) 11 (2), 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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Peppler, Kylie; Keune, Anna; Thompson, Naomi; Saxena, Pooja: Craftland is Mathland: Mathematical insight and the generative role of fiber crafts in maker education. Frontiers in Education 7, 2022 mehr…BibTeX
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2021
Keune, Anna: Fabric-Based Computing: (Re)examining the Materiality of Computer Science Learning Through Fiber Crafts. KI - Künstliche Intelligenz 36 (1), 2021, 69-72 mehr…BibTeX
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Peppler, Kylie; Keune, Anna; Dahn, Maggie; Bennett, Dorothy; Letourneau, Susan M.: Designing for others: the roles of narrative and empathy in supporting girls’ engineering engagement. Information and Learning Sciences ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 2021 mehr…BibTeX
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