Ronni Hayden

Ronni Hayden is a PhD student in Creative Technology and Design advised by Professor Ricarose Roque. She graduated from Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy with a degree in learning sciences and a concentration in the design of learning environments. As part of the Creative Communities research group, Ronni has supported qualitative research that draws on community-engaged, ethnographic, and design-based methods within two multi-institutional, collaborative research projects: the Family Creative Learning (FCL) program and the Facilitating Computational Tinkering (FCT) project. Hayden's dissertation research is focused on the role of infrastructures within learning ecologies and how we can effectively design educational interventions that enable equitable experiences with computing. Hayden's research has been published in peer-reviewed venues including the International Conference of the Learning Sciences, the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, and the Journal of Information and Learning Sciences. In addition to sharing work through academic venues, she has also connected and disseminated her work with educators and designers across museums, libraries, and school settings in the form of guides, zines, blog posts and workshops.

Publications

Hayden, R., Roque, R. 2024. “Lines of Infrastructuring: Revealing and Tracing Educators’ Infrastructuring Practices Across Design Implementations”. In: The 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2024). (Buffalo, NY, June 10-14, 2024).

Hayden, R., Roque, R. 2024. “Disrupting a Cycle of Disciplinary Harm: Confronting Ghosts in Creative Computing Endeavors with Out of School Educators”. In: The 18th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2024). (Buffalo, NY, June 10-14, 2024).

Roque, R., Hladik, S., Moreno, C., & Hayden, R. 2023. “Surfacing the complex conceptions of equity across making and tinkering spaces”. In: Information and Learning Sciences. (July 31, 2023).

Junnan Yu, Ronni Hayden, Ricarose Roque. 2023. “Exploring Computational Thinking with Physical Play through Design”. In: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '23). (Chicago, IL, June 19-23, 2023).

Hayden, R., Hladik, S., & Roque, R. 2023. “Expanding and focusing infrastructuring analysis for informal STEM education”. In: 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. (ICLS 2023). (Montreal, QC, June 10-15, 2023).

C. Moreno, S. Hladik, R. Roque, and R. Hayden. 2022. “Challenges in Facilitating Computational Experiences in Informal Learning Environments”. In: Connected Learning Summit 2022.  (Virtual, July 27-29, 2022).

Widman, S., Hayden, R., Stamatis, K., & Roque, R. 2022. “Disruptions, dissent, and discontinuities: What tensions in intergenerational learning dynamics reveal about learning design”. In: International Collaboration toward Educational Innovation for All: Overarching Research, Development, and Practices, 16th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2022). (Virtual, June 6-10, 2022).

Junnan Yu, Julisa Granados, Ronni Hayden, and Ricarose Roque. 2021. "Parental Facilitation of Young Children's Technology-based Learning Experiences from Nondominant Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic." In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. (October 2021).