June Ahn

June Ahn

@ahnjune.bsky.social

Learning Sciences, HCI, design, technology, research practice partnerships, improvement science, practical measures, analytics, data use. Director of https://www.daplab.education.uci.edu

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June Ahn
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For the last 3 years, I have co-organized an AI & Education Conference that brings together about 1000 educators to talk about the latest in K-12 education with AI. This year's focus is on educator/student/community led innovation with AI: centering community voice. web.cvent.com/event/396882...

web.cvent.comOverview - Student & Community Voice AI Summit 2026. Online registration by CventThe guiding vision for the 2026 Student and Community Voice AI Summit is that humans are irreplaceable in schools and communities.
June Ahn
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I've enjoyed bringing co-design and partnership methods to the Playful Learning Landscapes project. Here's a new article, on how it's inspiring the field of developmental psychology: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... HT to Annelise Pesch for lead authoring this piece!

bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.comBritish Journal of Developmental Psychology | Wiley Online LibraryLeveraging community science to encourage a more inclusive and culturally representative developmental science.
June Ahn
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So proud of my daplab team. Looking forward to seeing folks at AERA 2026. www.linkedin.com/posts/daplab...

linkedin.comThe daplab got 5 of 7 proposals accepted to AERA 2026! Please come see us present about how educators enact sensemaking with generative AI produced data; how to codesign playful learning that… | Desig...The daplab got 5 of 7 proposals accepted to AERA 2026! Please come see us present about how educators enact sensemaking with generative AI produced data; how to codesign playful learning that incorpor...

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Jaweed Kaleem
@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social

Trump wants UCLA to pay $1.2 billion to settle allegations it violated civil rights law. I took a look at the more than 7,300-word proposed UCLA settlement. Here's the detailed breakdown of Trump's plan to remake one of the nation's top public campuses: www.latimes.com/california/s...

latimes.comHere are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative imageThe Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.
June Ahn
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Big congrats to Dr. John Lopez on a successful dissertation defense; a great exploration of students’ epistemological beliefs in data science. He’ll be moving to a postdoc position at UC Berkeley in data science education! The best part of my job is seeing student growth and success ❤️

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-- Huge shout out to our lead author Rachael Zehrung for bringing this manuscript together, our larger grad student team for their work in the RPP and data analysis, and my fellow colleagues Yunan Chen and Richard Arum who provided invaluable expertise, collaboration and... 6/7

June Ahn
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... intellectual guidance to the team. -- I love it when funders, community, practice, mentorship and scholarship all come together. It takes a while to get to the published paper, but the journey reaps so many benefits. 7/7

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-- Then I had the pleasure of mentoring some great PhD students at UCI, to analyze our data and frame the issue of coordination to: "identify the key activities and infrastructural work performed by practitioners to support housing insecure and foster youth in light of... 4/7

June Ahn
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... social, technical, and institutional constraints. Based on our findings, we shed light on stigma management at an organizational level and the role of human infrastructure in responding to time-sensitive needs in highly institutionalized contexts." 5/7

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-- This is an example of a research-practice partnership with a whole network of support providers in a county, where we worked collectively for multiple years, to understand how to coordinate better services for housing insecure & foster youth. 2/7

June Ahn
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This slow, collaborative practice work was made possible by funding from the Spencer Foundation. -- While we were doing the practice work, we were able to also structure studies to understand the issues at play for our partners. 3/7

June Ahn
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Here's an annual celebration of the graduating students and alumni from my research lab. I'm always amazed at their growth and endeavors. One of the best parts of my job. www.daplab.education.uci.edu/post/celebra...

daplab.education.uci.eduCelebrating Our 2025 Daplab CohortThis year's graduating cohort of students in the Daplab was epic. We'd like to celebrate the great news for our alumni and graduating students!Dr. Dejay Hodge (UCI '24) started a tenure-track, Assista...
June Ahn
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Excited to share this writeup of my work with the Anaheim where we've been designing AI systems to accelerate their systems change efforts to prioritize and value students' holistic array of skills. TY to Carnegie Corporation for awarding our partnership. www.carnegie.org/our-work/art...

carnegie.orgAnaheim Collaborative: New Ways to Measure Students’ Progress | Future of Learning & Work | Carnegie Corporation of New YorkAnaheim public schools embrace projects that reflect creativity, critical thinking, and a sense of purpose
June Ahn
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So cool to see this. I also “made my own major” as an Independent Concentration, while an undergrad at Brown. Seeing new students develop their passions and agency warms my heart. www.brown.edu/news/2025-05...

brown.eduAt Brown, independent concentrators pursue academic paths as unique as their ambitionsIn this Q&A, four Brown students reflect on the experience of designing their own concentrations that defy conventional categories, from empathy in practice to computational neuroscience.
June Ahn
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So proud of this year’s cohort of students in my research lab (the Design and Partnership Lab). We have nearly 15 undergrads, masters and PhD students graduating this year. We gave out daplab stoles early, so they can take their graduation pictures and wear them for commencement.

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Beth Tipton
@statstipton.bsky.social

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

brookings.eduCutting research funding would make education less effective and efficientPresidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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Kate Starbird
@katestarbird.bsky.social

100% to this. It’s been clear to anyone watching closely that there is a multi-pronged attack on U.S. universities & the playbooks we are using to address this attack are not up to the challenge of the moment. (That said, some have been better than others, and at least UW let my team fight.)

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gelbach
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I suspect the calculation for admins was, "If we oppose the DEI attack, they'll come for our grant funding." I suspect the calculation now is, "If we oppose the grant cuts too loudly, they'll come for student finaid." Well, they'll do that anyway. Word to the wise.

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June Ahn
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Some good reading on what may be allowable in terms of indirect cost rate changes. TLDR: it's likely unlawful for NIH to reduce everything down 15%. But there is some interesting history in this post as well. I have not vetted this, but just sharing: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

goodscience.substack.comIndirect Costs at NIH . . .I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
June Ahn
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End of quarter lab festivities for the daplab. We had a great “secret Santa” gift exchange and a field trip to do some photo shenanigans. Happy holidays from the daplab to you!

June Ahn
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Today was a little, humble milestone. I broke my shoulder and had surgery to put it back together in early August. It’s been a slow recovery, and I can lift my arm only just about shoulder height. Andres Bustamante and @ericdearing.bsky.social called me to go out for a surf this AM.

June Ahn
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I was nervous as my shoulder is still weak. But I figured I’d at least see if I can paddle. But I paddled into a wave today! And popped up as well. It’s still many months of rehab on deck, but today was a good day.

June Ahn
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Huge congratulations to Dr. Socorro Cambero who successfully defended her dissertation, designing affinity spaces for teacher candidates to develop social justice identities and practices. I’m a proud advisor.