Biography
Dr. Heath (she/her/hers) is the Education Specialties Department Chair and an Associate Professor of Learning Design & Technology at 51短视频. Prior to her work in higher education, Dr. Heath taught high school social studies in Baltimore County Public Schools. Her teaching experiences influenced her research, which focuses on the intersection of education, civic engagement, and technology in order to foster social change.
Dr. Heath is the co-editor of the鈥�痡ournal, co-founder and co-executive director of the鈥�痯roject, and past chair of the Social Studies SIG and the Critical Theory in Teaching and Technolgy (CTTT) SIG for SITE. Dr. Heath is a Faculty Associate at the鈥�Center for Research and Evaluation.
Research Interest
Dr. Heath鈥檚 scholarship interrogates schools and technologies as current sites of encoded oppression, and labors to advance more just technological and educational futures. Working at the intersection of critical theory and media study approaches, Dr. Heath鈥檚 research interrogates technologies in schools and society to answer the question, as digital technologies continue encroaching in our lives, how can we advance technology education for just futures? As a scholar working toward social justice, Dr. Heath is committed to powerful public scholarship while maintaining productive and traditional avenues of scholarly impact.
Dr. Heath has published articles on technoskepticism, AI, technology, justice, equity, and education. She has an in-press book co-authored with friend and colleague , , with Harvard Education Press. She has also published policy reports on AI and Education through and to the , via the Special Rapporteur on the right to education.
Dr. Heath has published in prestigious and rigorous journals including Computers & Education; Education, Research, Technology & Development; Learning, Media & Technology, and the Journal of Teacher Education. She has won numerous awards including the 2023 The National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI) Fellowship Award (CUFA), the 2023 Best Paper Award in the Technology as Agent of Change (TACTL) SIG at the American
Recent Publications
Smith Budhai, S. & Heath, M. K., (In press, 2026). . Harvard Education Press.
Warr, M. & Heath, M.K. (2025). . Journal of Teacher Education. Online First.
Pleasants, J., Gui, X., Krutka, D. G., Logan, C., & Heath, M. K. (2024). . Learning, Media and Technology, 1-14.**
Heath, M. K., & Moore, S. (2024). . Computers and Education Open, 100204.
Heath, M.K., Krutka, D.G., Gleason, B. (2024). . Information and Learning Sciences. Online first.
Heath, M.K., Krutka, D.G., Jarke, J., Macgilchrist, F. (2024). . Postdigital Science and Education, 6(1), 369-382.