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Reed Stevens is Professor of Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. As an ethnographer of everyday experience, he studies the organization of learning, thinking and joint action in range of cultural settings that spans classrooms, workplaces, homes and museums. Stevens’ prior research has focused on STEM learning in and out school, designing by young people and by professionals, learning in families, and media practices among children, including video game play, television viewing and use of mobile devices. His work has helped inform designs of new learning technologies and learning experiences, both in and out of schools.

Stevens is principal investigator for FUSE, a project funded by the Macarthur and National Science Foundations that designs challenge-based activities that engage youth in interest-driven STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts/design, Math) activities. He has co-led two NSF Centers, one focused on engineering learning (CAEE) and one focused on learning in and out of schools (LIFE).