John Cano Barrios of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School was named the recipient of the 2020 James D. and Carol N. Fellowship. This fellowship supports MA or Ph.D. students with a focus on reading studies and/or the broader field of literacy studies. There is a selection preference for Department of Education students who are involved in McEnroe Reading & Language Arts Clinic activities.
Carol Dixon is a Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment Emeritus in the Department of Education, where she worked from 1973 to 2009. During her tenure Dixon served as Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Education and co-director of the South Coast Writing Project (SCWriP). As part of her work with SCWriP, she was co-director of a three year Literature Institute for Teachers (LIT), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1987-1990. In addition, she had been the co-director of an advanced institute funded by the California Writing Project, the Advanced Professional Leadership Institute for Teachers of Linguistically Diverse Students in 1993-1994, and of the Advanced Institute on Literacy in 1996-1998. In 1990, Dixon was co-founder of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group, a research collaborative of university faculty, graduate student researchers, and classroom teacher/researchers within the greater Santa Barbara area.
John Cano Barrios is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education in his third year working along with his advisors: Dr. Arya and Dr. Chun. He is from Colombia, where he used to teach and research in the areas of educational technology, online education, and intercultural education. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Education with an emphasis in Educational Technology at Universidad del Norte (Colombia), where he taught undergraduate and graduate students in face-to-face, blended and online environments. He is currently working as the instructional technology coordinator at the McEnroe Reading Clinic, where he supports and promotes technology integration in different community-based afterschool projects (K-8). He also is the coordinator of the afterschool program “Club Proteo” (Digital Literacy and Digital Storytelling project). His interests are technology integration in different contexts (especially higher education) and how such integration and uses can enhance the teaching and learning process by creating meaningful experiences for students.