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Technology makes it possible for students to do things they could never do before, says David Williamson Shaffer, an assistant professor of learning science at UW-Madison. A key question in Shaffer's research is: can new technologies be used to promote learning in new and more powerful ways?

To answer this question, Shaffer's Epistemology of Practice research group in the Department of Educational Psychology develops and studies innovative after school, weekend, and summer programs in which students learn about mathematics, science, and civics by working as architects, mediators, engineers, urban planners, and journalists. For more information, see http://coweb.wcer.wisc.edu/eop/.