Service — MATT EASTERDAY

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & COMMUNITY

Conference Committees

Learning@scale program committee (2016)
NSF Cyberlearning program committee (2016)
Poster Chair, Artificial Intelligence in Education (2015)
Program Committee, Learning with MOOCS (2014).
Program Committee, Workshop of Graph-Based Educational Data Mining held in conjunction with the 7th International Conference on Educational Datamining (2014).
Program Committee, Artificial Intelligence in Education (2013). Received Outstanding reviewer award for “going above and beyond in reviewing papers.”
Program Committee, Artificial Intelligence in Education (2011)
Program Committee Member, Intelligent Tutoring Systems (2010)

Ad Hoc Reviewer

IJAIED International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2017)
TOCHI ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (2016)
IJLS International Journal of the Learning Sciences (2014)
ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (2014)
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2013)
Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Learning (2012)
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2012)
INTERACT (2011)
Intelligent Tutoring Systems Workshop on Ill-defined Domains, (2010)

Review Panels and Events

NSF STEM+C Review Panel (2017)
NSF Cyberlearning Envisioning the Future Meeting (June, 2013)
NSF Cyberlearning Program Review Panel (Feb, 2012)
NSF Cyberlearning Summit (Jan, 2012)

Committees and Advisory Boards

Segal Research Council Member, Northwestern University (2012-present)
Advise Northwestern University Segal Design Institute on research initiatives.
School of Education and Social Policy Technology Committee (2011-2014, Chair)
Advise School of Educational and Social Policy IT on departmental technology needs.
Northwestern Cognitive Science Committee (2012-present)
Represent the School of Educational and Social Policy in cognitive science program.
Learning Advisor, Design for America (2013-present)
Advise nation-wide network of student-led University design studios on development of education program and technology.
Roosevelt Network Midwest Advisory Board (2016-present)
Advise nation-wide network of student-led University policy analysis chapters on educational program and technology.
Founder of the Symposium public speaking club (2006-2008)
Started speaking club to prepare graduate students for departmental speaking requirements.
PIER Steering Committee Member (2006-2008)
Student representative for IES program on interdisciplinary educational research.
HCII Curriculum Committee Member (2005-2008)
Student representative for redesign and oversight of masters and PhD curricula.
HCII Graduate Peer Mentor (2005-2008)
Ombudsman for new graduate students in computer science.
Southwestern Pennsylvania Program for Deliberative Democracy Aﬃliate (2005-2008)
Helped to integrate argument mapping into materials for citizen discussions on policy.
Center for Appalachian Network Access project for rural communities (2005)
Mentored public policy masters students’ technology project in rural Appalachia.

INVITED TALKS

Easterday, M.W. (planned Feb 2, 2018). Digital Studios. Learning Sciences Research Institute Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Easterday, M.W. (April 19, 2017). Orchestrating in/formal communities of learners with Digital Studios. Cyberlearning 2017. Washington, D.C.: National Science Foundation
Easterday, M.W. (April 21, 2017). Building a Lesson Study Network. From Awareness to Acton: Realizing Equity and Excellence via Lesson Study, A Network Convening. Santa Rosa, CA: California Action Network for Mathematics Equity and Excellence.
Easterday, M.W. (April 10, 2017). DFA Coaching. Mentor Meetup, Evanston, IL: Design for America.
Easterday, M.W. (Mar 27, 2017). Digital Studios for Social Innovation. PIER Speaker Series. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University.
Easterday, M.W. (Jan. 14, 2014). Educational technology for civic innovation, University of Michigan.
Easterday, M.W. (Apr. 18, 2012). Cybercivics 101: Educational Technology for the New Civics. TEDx Evanston: Adventures in Learning, Evanston IL. Retrieved from: www.tedx-evanston.com
Easterday, M. W. (Jan 18, 2012). Cyber-Civics 101. In J. Roschelle & S. Hsi (Chair), Cyberlearning research summit. National Geographic Society, Washington, DC: National Science Foundation.
Easterday, M. W. (Oct 14, 2011). Designing educational technology to teach engaged citizens: Video games and the new civics. In J. Zagal (Chair), Research colloquium. Chicago, IL: DePaul University, College of Computing and Digital Media.
Easterday, M. W. (Oct 5, 2011). Designing educational technology to teach engaged citizens: Video games and the new civics. In S. Goldman (Chair), Cognitive brown bag. Chicago, IL: University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychology.
Easterday, M. W. (Oct 4, 2011). Video games and the new civics. In E. Gerber (Chair), Segal seminar series [Video file]. Evanston, IL: Segal Design Institute, Northwestern University. Retrieved from http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/videos/2011/oct/12/matt-easterday-video-games-and-new-civics

MEDIA

Easterday, M.W. (Dec 26, 2016) Teachable Moments: For America’s Colleges, the future of coaching is now: How project-based learning works in higher ed. The Hechinger Report. Retrieved from: http://hechingerreport.org/teachable-moments-americas-colleges-future-coaching-now/
Easterday, M.W. (Feb 20, 2017). The Japanese education system may solve the problems of US public education. The Hill. Retrieved from: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/education/320350-the-japanese-education-system-may-solve-the-problems-of-us
Easterday, M.W. (May 24, 2017). Why deliberative democracy makes better citizens. Truthout. Retrieved from: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/40697-why-deliberative-democracy-makes-better-citizens