Colin Dixon
Concord Consortium Educator & Researcher
Oakland, CA
Colin Dixon is a Research Associate on the InSPECT, Paper Mechatronics, and Learning Everywhere projects at the Concord Consortium. He received his PhD from UC Davis working with the Beta Lab and the Center for Community and Citizen Science at the University of California, Davis. He has researched the development of STEM practices and agency among young people creating things to use and share with the world. He has written about equity and identity in making and engineering, the role of community in science learning, and how youth leverage their interests and experiences within STEM education. Colin works to build and research tools and learning environments that foster learning wherever it happens—in and out of schools—and that merge new technologies into more traditional tools and communities of practice, from arts to advocacy, bike mechanics to scientific research.