Learning Sciences & Technologies · Penn GSE
Learning with wonder. Creating with the world.
I’m Bodong Chen, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. I study how people learn and create together, and design the pedagogies, technologies, and analytics that support them do it.
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Collaborative knowledge building
Classrooms where students take collective responsibility for advancing ideas of value to their communities.
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Infrastructuring innovation
Frameworks and partnerships for sustaining educational innovations long after the pilot ends.
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AI & epistemic agency
How learners and teachers keep ownership of their ideas, and grow their capacity to act on them, as AI enters classrooms.
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Networks & learning
Network methods for seeing how people and ideas connect, from classroom discourse to professional communities.
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Pedagogy of the Prompt Substack
Reading the instruction files behind Claude for Teachers.
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Promised, Provisioned, Functional? Substack
What it takes to make AI infrastructure work in education
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Announcing Wonderbits Substack
After a long journey of design, testing, research, and many conversations with students and educators, I’m excited to share Wonderbits.
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2026
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2026
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2026
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2025
05 Community
Lab & service
Groups I direct
- Penn GSE Wonder Lab: design-based research on learning, knowledge building, and AI.
- Penn Knowledge Building Innovation Network: a network of educators and researchers advancing Knowledge Building.
Editorial & professional
- Associate Editor, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
- Editorial boards, Journal of the Learning Sciences, Journal of Learning Analytics
- Co-chair, CSCL Conference 2022 & 2025
06 Get in touch
Collaborations, prospective students, and speaking invitations.
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