Biography
Dr. Hall writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between, innovation and equity, epistemic knowledge and power, cognition and culture. Dr. Hall views urban education and urban communities as important sites of cultural identity formation, resistance, and epistemic knowledge. His scholarly interests have involved extensive field research and teaching at universities in the United States as well as internationally in Accra, Ghana, Lagos, Nigeria and Hangzhou, China.
Education:
- Learning, Technology and Culture, Michigan State University, 2005
Courses:
EDUC - W520 Planning for Technology Infrastructure
Expert:
- Critical Pedagogy
- Educational Technology
- Cognition and Culture
- Africana Studies
- Community Engagement
- Colonial Studies
Interests:
- Critical Pedagogy
- Decolonial Praxis
- Community Engagement
- Technology
- Cognition and Culture
- Critical Literacy
- AfroDigital/Africana Studies
Projects:
Dr. Hall is a Co-Pi on the Digital Education Hub. The Digital Education Hub provides sustainable and rigorous support of K-12 students through resources, learning opportunities, and networking. By collaborating with communities, families, and educators, they cultivate equity and inclusion in lifelong learning with technology, focusing especially on learners representing structurally marginalized identities and communities.
Grants and Funding:
- Co-Principal Investigator. “It Takes a Village: Student Resilience Learning Plan.” Student Learning Recovery Grant. Award: $1,132,590. Project Period: June1, 2021 - August 31, 2023.
- Co-Principal Investigator. Digital Education Hub (DEH) for Rigorous Remote Learning with Communities. Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Grant. Award: $1,179,000. Project Period: September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2022.
- Indiana University, School of Education, Makerspace Grant, $10,000 - 2015-2017
- Indiana University, School of Education, Summer Faculty Fellowship, $10,000 - 2012-2013
- Indiana University, School of Education, Technology Online, $20,000 - 2009-2011
Professional Associations:
- American Educational Studies Association
- American Educational Research Association
- Division G: Social Context of Education
- SIGs: Critical Educational Technology
- Program teaching in Urban Education Studies