Cynthia Carter Ching

Cynthia Carter Ching is Associate Professor of Learning and Mind Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on how people across the lifespan and within particular sociohistorical contexts make meaning with and about the technologies in their lives. In 2007 she won the American Educational Research Association's Division C Jan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies for her study of digital photo journals in early...See more

Cynthia Carter Ching is Associate Professor of Learning and Mind Sciences at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on how people across the lifespan and within particular sociohistorical contexts make meaning with and about the technologies in their lives. In 2007 she won the American Educational Research Association's Division C Jan Hawkins Early Career Award for Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies for her study of digital photo journals in early childhood education. She has also served as an Associate Editor at The Journal of the Learning Sciences. Her work has appeared in Teachers College Record, Urban Education, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Computers and Education, Early Education and Development, and E-learning and Digital Media. She has previously worked at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and received her PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. See less