Xiuwen Wu
Rank:
Assistant Professor, Special Education, Diversity in Learning and Development Department
Office Location:
National-Louis University
5202 Old Orchard Road, Skokie, IL, 60077
Office Phone Number:
(224) 233-2774, Extension 2774
Office Fax Number:
(224) 233-2112
Email Address:
xwu@nl.edu
EDUCATION
2003: Ph. D. Special Education, Michigan State University
PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT
Education can be defined as a highly spirited process in which all participants are actively and eagerly involved. To make this happen, teachers and students take turns to be the center of the “stage” to demonstrate the act of teaching and learning. All students have unique roles to play.
CURRENT COURSES I TAUGHT
SPE 500: Introduction to Exceptional Children and Adolescents
SPE 545: Assistive Technology
SPE 509: Clinical Literacy
SPE 508: Critical Literacy
PUBLICATIONS
• Wu, X. (2006). Social studies for all learners: Universal design and visual literacy. Vol. 66. Journal of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies.
• Wu, X. and Zilla, K. (2005). Building community in an assistive technology course: the transaction of technology and pedagogy. Journal of US-China Education Review. Vol.2, No. 9.
• Englert, C. S., Wu, X., & Zhao, Y. (2005). Cognitive Tools for Writing: Scaffolding the Performance of Students through Technology. Learning Disabilities Research and Practice. Vol. 20, Issue 3
GRANTS
• The Illinois Association of Teacher Educators (IATE) Research Mini-Grant, 2006-2007—Use Visual Texts to Improve Reading Comprehension for All Learners in Social Studies
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• Wu, X. (2006, April) Interaction Dynamics in a Computer-supported Writing Project: Considerations about participants, technology, and other artifacts in a cooperative activity setting—Paper presented at 87th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco, CA.
• Wu, X., Newman, M., & Spirou, C. (2006, October) Chicago Stories: Using pictures to promote visual literacy. Illinois Council of Social Studies, Lisle, IL
• Wu, X. (2006, June) Using Visual Strategies to Enhance Content-area Reading in Social Studies. The National Network of Pathways Scholars’ Fourth Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
• Wu, X. (2005, July) Building community in an assistive technology course: the transaction of technology and pedagogy—Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Beijing, P.R. China
• Wu, X. (2005, April) Implementing Technology in a Resource Room: Lessons learned from a classroom-based writing design experiment—Paper presented at 86th Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal, Canada.
• Wu, X. (2004, March) An Resource Room Teacher’s Implementation of Technology: Lessons Learned from a Writing Design—Paper presented at 15th Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) in Atlanta, Georgia.
WORK IN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY
• Chicago Academy, a CPS public school—Technology Project in Inclusion Classroom
• Curriculum Council, NLU
• National College of Education Technology Committee, NLU
• Chinese Culture Speaker
• Consult parents on special education issues
RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Socio-cultural factors affecting language learning and literacy events in a person’s life.
• Various discourse styles of children and how the differences affect the individual children’s opportunities for learning in the classrooms
• Social identity and language
• Enabling (positive) participation frameworks
• Instructional and assistive technology
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Conference presentations in China (Beijing and Hong Kong)
PERSONAL INTERESTS
• Game of Go
• Traditional Culture (Chinese operas, calligraphy, etc.)
• Technology/Computer
