Hi there…
…and thanks for visiting my digital workspace! Grab your favorite cozy beverage and take look around.
About Ada
Ada Ren-Mitchell’s work focuses on bridging time-tested and innovative ideas in education to bring communities together.
In the past decade, Ada designed informal STEM education experiences for librarians, graduate students, faculty, educators, youth, and families to connect as cozy communities. In these spaces, she supports learners’ confidence and curiosity to inspire more connected communities.
Ada’s expertise in education is also drawn from over 15 years of multimodal gesture research, and a lifelong interest in multimedia design and communication.
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Ada is currently running the MIT Public Library Innovation Exchange (PLIX), integrating STEM equity with creative learning pedagogy, and supporting her local arts community as a board member of the Somerville Arts Council.
Projects
Below are a selection of Ada’s professional work and projects over the years.
Capacity-building for library professionals to grow STEM expertise through education pedagogies, in public libraries across the U.S.
Directing and videography to showcase an NSF project on the experiences of Native STEM students and professionals, highlighting the supports and barriers to their STEM identities. This video won a Presenter’s Choice Award. 🏅
This online education program trains early- and mid-career researchers on the whys and hows of a novel multimodal gesture annotation systems.
The Institute for Meta-Synthesis provides a variety of entry points for graduate students and faculty interested in qualitative meta-synthesis research
Low-tech STEAM activities and web design for supporting math and computer science learning at home
A guided museum experience for middle schoolers to develop systems thinking and data literacy
Using a combination of programming languages and design tools, these exploratory data visualizations help test hypotheses in multimodal gesture research
These visual notes support memory recall of discussion topics and ideas from a 2-day brainstorming workshop
This educational resource supports educators and learners to create gears from free Inkscape software, a desktop CNC machine, and hand-on skills, supporting low-cost STEM making and learning
Educational support for educators and high school students for finding data, avoiding graph pitfall, and growing visual literacy skills to tell narratives through infographics.
Craft Projects
Check out this selection of Ada’s fabric and paper crafts and their intersections. From garment design and construction, to bookbinding, to designing new ideas for note-taking, Ada experiments sustainable and human-centered design throughout a product’s life cycle.
