Marie K. Heath, Ed.D.

Dr. Marie K. Heath (she/her) is not a robot, but sometimes she busts out her awkward robot dance, much to her children’s dismay. She currently works as an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at Loyola University Maryland. Prior to her work in higher education, Marie taught high school social studies in Baltimore County Public Schools. Her scholarship interrogates schools and technologies as current sites of encoded oppression, and labors to advance more just technological and educational futures.

Since earning her doctorate in 2016, Marie has published over 50 scholarly articles on AI, technology, justice, equity, and education, which have been cited nearly 700 times. She has an in-press book co-authored with friend and colleague Dr. Stephanie Smith Budhai, Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Joy and Justice, with Harvard Education Press. She has also published policy reports on AI and Education through NORRAG and to the United Nations General Assembly, via the Special Rapporteur on the right to education.

Marie 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 Education Research Association (AERA), and the 2017 Innovation in Teaching Award for the Towson University College of Education. Her media appearances include The Washington Post on teaching about divisive elections and impeachment; conversations with Dr. Punya Mishra’s vodcast on Silver Linings for Learning; and on Dr. Neil Selwyn’s podcast, Meet the Educator.

In Marie’s teaching, she works alongside students to technoskeptically inquire into the effects of technologies on our educational and social lives in order to work toward more just and democratic futures.

She is co-editor of the Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) Social Studies Journal, co-founder of the Civics of Technology project, a faculty fellow at the Center for Leadership and Social Justice Education at Loyola University Maryland, and an Advisory Board Member to the Kapor Foundation for Responsible AI and Tech Justice.

If you ask generative AI a question about Marie, she likes to say it replies with the Mariah Carey “I don’t know her” meme. But the truth is, it just takes this copy, moves some words around, and spits it back out with (frustratingly) better jokes.