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I am a currently an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in the Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology. I am also a comic artist and illustrator.

Full CV
Research

 

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

2023-present

 

Education

 

University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
PhD in Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
2017 - 2023

University of Nevada - Las Vegas
MEd in Curriculum and Instruction (Secondary Science Education)
2012 - 2014

Stanford University
BAH in Human Biology (Adolescent Development)
2008-2012 

Teaching

NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

2023-present

eenSHARP 

Instructor 

2019 - 2021

Techbridge Girls

Program Coordinator 

2014 - 2017

Teach For America: Las Vegas

8th Grade Science Teacher

2012 - 2014

 

Fellowships & Awards 

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

2022 - 2023

Curriculum Inquiry Writing Fellowship and Writing Retreat

Summer 2022

Spelman College COE-MWS Care and Create 2022 Working Retreat

Spring 2022


Lucas Education Research Student Voice in PBL Fellowship

2017 - 2018

Featured Publications 

Shaw, M. S., Coleman, J. J., Thomas, E. E., & Kafai, Y. B. (2023). Recoding Black Girls’ Futures: Using Womanist Quilting Methodologies to Reimagine Dominant Social Codes in Computing Education. Journal of the Learning Sciences,  DOI: 10.1080/10508406.2023.2179847

Fields, D. A., Lui, D., Kafai, Y. B., Jayathirtha, G., Walker, J. T., & Shaw, M.S. (2021). Communicating about computational thinking: understanding affordances of portfolios for assessing high school students’ computational thinking and participation practices. Computer Science Education, 31(2), 224-258.

Shaw, M. S., Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2020). Leveraging Local Resources and Contexts for Inclusive Computer Science Classrooms: Reflections from Experienced High School Teachers Implementing Electronic Textiles. Computer Science Education, 30(3), 313-336.

Shaw, M. S., Fields, D. A., & Kafai, Y. B. (2019). Connecting with Computer Science: Electronic Textile Portfolios as Ideational Identity Resources for High School Students. International Journal of Multicultural Education, 21(1). 

Illustrations 

Mozfest Spelman College "Black Women’s Experiences with Algorithmic Microaggressions" Black paper with Dr. Jaye Nias

2022

PBS Kids Equity and Computational Thinking Presentation with Dr. Amon Milner

2021

PACE Equity Summit presentation with Dr. Deborah Fields

2021

Book chapter and illustrations in Drs. Katie Pak and Sharon Ravitch's "Critical Leadership Praxis for Educational and Social Change"

Featured Proceedings

Shaw, M. S., Ji, G., Zhang, Y., & Kafai, Y.B. (2021). Promoting socio-political identification with computer science: How high school youth restory their identities through electronic textile quilts. Proceedings of RESPECT 2021. Available at http://respect2021.stcbp.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/001_Research_10_paper_81_Updated.pdf

Shaw, M. S., Kafai, Y.B., Zhang, Y., Ji, G., Russo, R., & Aftab, A. (2021). Connecting with Computer Science: Two Case Studies of Restorying CS Identity with Electronic Textile Quilts. In E. de Vries, J. Ahn, & Y. Hod (Eds.), 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences – ICLS 2021 (pp. 697-700). International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2021.

Shaw, M. S. (2020). Restorying through Computational Quilts: A Critical Approach Towards Reimagining Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 344–345. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3372782.3407114

Shaw, M. S., & Kafai, Y. B. (2020). Charting the Identity Turn in K-12 Computer Science Education: Developing More Inclusive Learning Pathways for Identities. In Gresalfi, M. and Horn, I. S. (Eds.), The Interdisciplinarity of the Learning Sciences, 14th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2020, Volume 1 (pp. 114-121). Nashville, Tennessee: International Society of the Learning Sciences.

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