Sharin Jacob
Ph.D. Student
School of Education
Email: sharinj@uci.edu
Website: https://sharinjacob.weebly.com/
Ph.D. Student
School of Education
Email: sharinj@uci.edu
Website: https://sharinjacob.weebly.com/
Biography
Sharin Jacob is a PhD in Education Student at the University of California Irvine. She received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with distinction from California State University, Los Angeles. Sharin has four years experience teaching high school English as a Second Language to multilingual students, including at a New Arrivals Center in which she taught sheltered math and science to newcomers.
Her research interests are interdisciplinary, bringing theory from the learning sciences, computer science education, and applied linguistics to study the teaching and learning of computing and computational thinking to multilingual students.
Sharin is currently a graduate student researcher on CONECTAR: Collaborative Network of Educators for Computational Thinking for All Research: a National Science Foundation Computer Science for All initiative designed to promote computational thinking for multilingual upper elementary students.
November 2019
Sharin Jacob is a PhD in Education Student at the University of California Irvine. She received her M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages with distinction from California State University, Los Angeles. Sharin has four years experience teaching high school English as a Second Language to multilingual students, including at a New Arrivals Center in which she taught sheltered math and science to newcomers.
Her research interests are interdisciplinary, bringing theory from the learning sciences, computer science education, and applied linguistics to study the teaching and learning of computing and computational thinking to multilingual students.
Sharin is currently a graduate student researcher on CONECTAR: Collaborative Network of Educators for Computational Thinking for All Research: a National Science Foundation Computer Science for All initiative designed to promote computational thinking for multilingual upper elementary students.
November 2019
