Everyday Science:

# Children come to understand the living world through a complex interplay of informal and formal educational experiences. We are developing synthetic accounts of children’s development of biological understanding from their activities in and out of school (cf., folk biology). Also, because children encounter highly discrepant images of science across their activities, we are studying how children come to understand the nature and purposes of scientific inquiry and knowledge (cf., folk epistemology).
# Digital Technologies in Youth Culture: Pervasive digital technologies—like instant messaging, videogames, and cell phones—are being increasingly interwoven into children’s everyday activities. We are documenting how such devices are influencing their social practices and development in order to better understand how children learn with and about these digital technologies.
# Everyday Argumentation: We are documenting how children engage in and attend to argument across the settings and activities of their lives. This allows us to understand the various forms and purposes for that argumentation as well as understanding the social and cognitive competencies children demonstrate in different contexts. By examining the processes and products of everyday argument, we hope to ultimately inform how children can develop scientific argumentation practices