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Sofia Tancredi
@sofiasensory.bsky.social
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Design-based education researcher. Embodied cognition in math learning, sensory neurodiversity, & multimodal education technologies. Postdoc at UW-Madison. She/her
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Thanks #PlayMakeLearn!
Pamphlet that says “Data Gems” and a bracelet and keychain with moveable charms used to physically track personally meaningful data. Cardboard structures: an icosohedron (20 triangular faces) and structure where each face of the icosohedron holds a triangle-base pyramid Sock puppet with pink yarn hair, googley eyes, and red heart-shaped glasses made of pipe cleaner Balance Board Marh demo: two people rock seated on wooden balance boards. In front of them on a projected display, graphs appear.
August 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Hey #PlayMakeLearn! come play with functions tomorrow (Thursday) during playful demos, 4:45–5:45pm
Two women rock dynamically on wooden balance boards, generating realtime graphs on a projected display in front of them
August 20, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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It was special to catch Do Ho Suh’s “Walk the House” Exhibition on my way back from Europe, home for me as an adolescent, to my home in the US- a gorgeous reflection on the beauty and longing of carrying different homes with us and the nature of memory.
Artist Do Ho Suh's piece "Perfect Home". Exact replicas of plugs, doorknobs and latches rendered with translucent fabric affixed to the wall of a translucent fabric room. Each item is a different color: an ornate yellow doorknob, a chunky navy door latch and thermostat, red, blue, and green plugs overlaying a green round doorknob. The items are from different homes artist Do Ho Suh has lived in at their measured exact heights. Do Ho Suh's "Staircase": a framed curved and crumpled red form on a white background showing a 3d staircase made of thread and gelatine paper collapsed into two dimensions.
June 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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The #ISLS2025 program is out! Hope to see you in-person and virtually at our hybrid symposium on #neurodiversity & #STEM education on Thursday June 12th from 3-4:30pm
Simple yellow flyer with abstract light blue scribble designs surrounding the title, timing, presenter headshots, and presentation titles for a conference symposium. At the top, in a dark blue box, it specifies 'hybrid symposium',below which the title states 'Charting the Learning Sciences Neuroverse: Theorizing and Building Neurodiversity-Affirming STEM Education.' Under that, the presentation titles are: 1. Reframing Neurodiversity through Community Cultural Wealth: Enactments and Expansions, Dr.Crystal Menzies, UC–Berkeley. 2. Neurodiversity as a Challenge to Neurotypical Mathematical Assumptions Dr.s Rachel Lambert, Edmund Harriss, UC–Santa Barbara. 3. Creative Potential of Neurodiverse Engineering Students: Insights from the Engineering Creativity Assessment Tool (ECAT), Dr.s Zeynep G Akdemir-Beveridge, Arash Esmaili Zaghi, & Connie Syharat, University of Connecticut, 4. Ecosystems of Belonging: Teaching Assistants’ Influence on Neurodivergent Computer Science Students’ Sense of Belonging, Dr.Rachel Bonnette, University at Buffalo, and 5. Neurodivergent Embodied STEM Learning: Stimming as an Epistemic and Interactional Resource, Dr. Sofia Tancredi, UW–Madison. In the bottom left corner, there is a photo of discussant Katherine Lewis from the University of Washington. In the bottom right corner, it lists the date and time of the event as June 12, 3-4:30pm in Helsinki, Finland at the International Society for the Learning Sciences conference. The event will also be accessible via zoom.
May 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Why aren’t you in class? You look like someone who needs some absurdist sock puppet skits today: tinyurl.com/wayic
Screenshot of a sock puppet with googley eyes, blue and black striped sweater, and lanyard speaking into a microphone. The same image is shown upside down in miniature in the top right hand corner.
April 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Anyone at #AERA2025 through the end of Sunday? I'll be giving a talk on some findings about gesture and dynamic graphing in a #SIG-RME session on algebraic reasoning across grades (1:30-3:00pm MDT). Hope to see you there! :) #math #embodiment #gesture
Title slide of a talk titled "Becoming the graph: changes in children's gestures following dynamic, whole-body graphing activities." Two blue-background images of graphs line the right side of the white slide: the top one shows a dashed yellow wavy graph line and a solid blue wavy line overlapping. The bottom one shows a wavy dashed line with large green stars at each peak and trough. Authors names are shown in white inside a navy box at the bottom: Sofia Tancredi at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Johnny Serrano at University of California-Berkeley.
April 13, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Just got back from a workshop at Georgia Tech organized by Abigale Stangl convening experts in engineering, design, accessibility tech, HCI, CS, tactile graphics, tactile art, and STEM ed to talk Tactile & Embodied Learning. Excited for where such interdisciplinary dialogue can take the field!
Photograph of a tactile version of a museum artwork poster of a humanoid bird creature standing in tall grass. The bird woman has long human legs, wings, and a beak, and she is shown in profile. The different layers of the image are shown with layered paper, and the details are embroidered onto the paper with different types of stitchwork: courser feather-like stitches on her body, and long lines in the grass. The tactile version of this artwork is by Stefanie Koseff. Photograph of a set of three 3d printed manipulatives showing different stages in embryo development. Photograph of a circuit making kit showing foam blocks with conductive tape that connect magnetically. The blocks have things like a soft cat or clock adhered to the sides and can activate vibration motors, fans, and other features.
February 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Next Tuesday 9/10, 4-6pm. Please email or DM me if you or a high schooler you know would like to join us!
#neurodiversity #codesign #inclusion
Event flyer. Title: Co-Design Day for Neurodiversity-Inclusive Learning. Description: An opportunity for neurodiverse high school students to collaborate with researchers at UC Berkeley to create new learning tools and technologies that make high school learning more inclusive for neurodiverse students. Event details: September 10, 2024, 4-6pm. Embodied Design Research Lab, UC Berkeley, To RSVP please email sofiatancredi@berkeley.edu. The flyer features a rainbow infinity symbol as well as a pink frame with images of a brain, cogs inside a head form, a light bulb, a book, charts, a scribble, and a puzzle.
September 6, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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So long lovely #Toronto! Thanks for hosting this year's Jean Piaget Society meeting. #JPS2024
Photograph of the sun setting behind Toronto's CN tower framed between two tall buildings, with a bustling crowd in the foreground.
June 3, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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If you want to try out and build on these designs, a tutorial and code repository can be found here open-access courtesy of Julia Wang: tinyurl.com/BBM-Balance-Graphing
Screenshot of a landing page for Balance Board Math activities. There are 6 colorful images of graphs and shapes (for example, a series of green stars on a dotted line, and a black and white grid). A toggle at the top selects one-player or two-player. Buttons at the bottom say "home". "connect P1", connect P2", and "settings."
April 7, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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My design snapshot on how technology can enable new ways of thinking and learning using the sense of balance is out in Digital Experiences in Mathematics Education. Concepts explored include the number line, trig functions, function addition, the unit circle, & calculus doi.org/10.1007/s407...
Diagram of a a technology set-up with a projected digital display connected to a computer, which is connected to two rocking balance boards (shown in blue and orange). The display shows a cartesian grid with three graphed lines: an orange, a blue, and a black line.
April 7, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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Excited to share I will be co-chairing a hybrid-format symposium on intersectional dimensions of embodied learning at #ISLS2024 this June. Hope to see you there, virtually or in-person!
Navy blue flyer with white font showing the title, abstract, and participant list for a conference symposium. There is a decorative graphic of colorful intersecting organic circular shapes in top right. Title: Learning for Every Body: Intersectional Dimensions of Embodied Learning. Abstract: As embodiment research gains popularity within the learning sciences, this symposium both leverages and critiques embodiment perspectives as they reveal the learning of marginalized students. We highlight the manifold ways in which bodies that do not conform, subscribe, or satisfy the imagined, normative ‘ideal’ standard in educational settings—be they racialized, gendered, disabled, indigenous, multilingual, queer, and/or politicized—construct and are constructed within explicitly embodied learning settings. Co-chairs: Sofia Tancredi (UC Berkeley & SFSU) & Morgan Vickery (Indiana University. Discussant: Shirin Vossoughi (Northwestern University). 14 presenters also listed.
February 21, 2024 at 1:00 AM