Deborah Silvis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at SUNY Cortland, where she teaches courses in the Childhood & Early Childhood Education program. Prior to that, she was a postdoc in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences at Utah State University. Deborah earned a PhD in Learning Sciences and Human Development at the University of Washington’s College of Education where she completed her dissertation “Doing Routine Maintenance: Families Designing for Learning at Home with New Media and Technology,” while earning an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in Science, Technology, and Society Studies (STSS).

Her research sits at the intersection of sociocultural and sociotechnical theories and concerns the relationship between technology development, child development, and social change. Her dissertation work won or was nominated for four Best Student Paper awards at the annual meetings of the American Education Research Association (AERA) and the International Society of Learning Sciences (ISLS). She has published work in International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning; Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Information & Learning Sciences; International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction; Learning, Culture, and Social Interaction; and Cognition & Instruction.