Daniel Ritchie
Daniel Ritchie
Researcher ~ Educator ~ Programmer
Researcher ~ Educator ~ Programmer
I am a PhD Student in Education at the University of California, Irvine, with a specialization in Digital Media. My research focus is interactive educational technology and technology education, and I work with Dr. Mark Warschauer, Dr. Ying Xu, and other amazing scholars at the UCI Digital Learning Lab.
My upcoming dissertation work will involve co-designing, engineering, and then testing both a curriculum and a web-based tool to teach gamified data literacy and artificial intelligence literacy to middle school students.
My hobbies and interests include playing video games, Dungeons and Dragons, soccer, and keeping up-to-date on Marvel movies.
Projects
Capturing Online Instructor Practices using LMS Data
Mapping data collected about course design from Canvas to instructor behavior.
Experience
May 2023 - Present
Vice-Chair
- Coordinating efforts of researchers and practitioners across the state of California to support AI education
- Designing and delivering professional development experiences to K-12 teachers to foster AI literacy
July 2021 - Present
Graduate Student Researcher
Digital Learning Lab, UC Irvine
- Managing project teams to accomplish objectives
- Designing research studies and protocols
- Collecting and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
June 2020 - September 2020
Software Engineering Intern
Polar
- Developed features and prototypes for web app
- React, MaterialUI
- Customer support
June 2019 - June 2020
Web Development Intern
Center for Regional Change, UC Davis
- Developed a front-end, static website
- Integrated interactive navigation features
June 2019 - August 2019
Educational Technology Intern
ThoughtSTEM
- Developed curricula and technology for students learning to program games in Racket
Publications
Xu, Y., Wang, D., Yu, M., Ritchie, D., Yao, B., Wu, T., Zhang, Z., Li, T., Bradford, N., Sun, B., Hoang, T., Sang, Y., Hou, Y., Ma, X., Yang, D., Peng, N., Yu, Z., & Warschauer, M. (2022). Fantastic questions and where to find them: FairytaleQA— An authentic dataset for narrative comprehension. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL ‘22).
Zhang, Z., Xu, Y., Wang Y., Yao, B., Ritchie, D., Wu, T., Yu, M., Wang, D., & Li, T. (2022). Storybuddy: A human-AI collaborative agent for parent-child interactive storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘22).
Ritchie, D. (2020). Review of existing video games for computer science education. Prized Writing, 31, 187-197.
Education
2026 (Expected)
Ph.D. in Education, Digital Media Specialization
University of California, Irvine
2021