Dr. Marcia Mardis, assistant professor at the School of Library & Information Studies, is guest editor of the Nov/Dec 2010 issue of Knowledge Quest, the official journal of the American Association of School Librarians. The issue theme is “STEM for Our Students” and features articles on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. Highlighted in the issue is the first annual National STEM Video Game Challenge, which aims to motivate interest in student learning by tapping into youth passion for playing and making video games.
About Knowledge Quest. Published bimonthly by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, Knowledge Quest is devoted to bringing substantive information to assist school librarians, supervisors, library educators, and other decision makers concerned with the development of school library programs and services. Articles address the integration of theory and practice in school librarianship and new developments in education, learning theory, and relevant disciplines.
About Dr. Marcia Mardis. Marcia A. Mardis, Assistant Professor, works primarily with school library media and children’s/youth services students at the School of Library & Information Studies. She is also the Associate Director for the Partnerships Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center.
Prior to joining the faculty at FSU, Dr. Mardis was an Asssistant Professor at Wayne State University, an Advanced Networking Researcher and Program Manager for the University of Michigan’s Merit Network; a lecturer for graduate-level information science, research methods, and educational technology courses at Eastern Michigan University’s College of Education and the University of Michigan’s School of Information; and the director of libraries and speech activities at The Keystone School for Science & Mathematics in Texas and two schools in Michigan.
In 2008, she was also a Fulbright Visiting Professor at the College of Education at the University of Alberta at Edmonton.
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