People

Dr. Amy Hutchison is passionate about using digital innovations to provide equitable learning opportunities for all students and prepare them for a future that is constantly changed by digital technologies. She has authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and books on these topics.

Dr. Hutchison was recently awarded the Digital Literacy Game Changer Award by the International Literacy Association, and has previously received research awards from the Literacy Research Association the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Iowa State University, and was the recipient of the Thomas N. Urban Award for outstanding scholarly contributions to education. Additionally, Dr. Hutchison has served in many leadership roles in organizations such as AERA and the Literacy Research Association.

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Dr. W. Boden Robertson is a Research Project Coordinator in the Digital, Computational, and Data Literacies (DCoaD) Lab at The University of Alabama. His work in the lab focuses on coordinating and supporting research projects related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, digital literacy, and K–12 teaching and learning, including large-scale, grant-funded initiatives that bring AI learning experiences to elementary classrooms.

Dr. Robertson is also a qualitative research methodologist whose scholarship focuses on teacher identity, subjectivity and reflexivity in qualitative research, and the methodological and ethical implications of generative AI. In addition to publishing scholarly work in these areas, he also teaches graduate-level qualitative research methods courses and has experience providing methodological consultation to researchers across a wide range of disciplines.

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