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Elementary education is the discipline I have chosen. There is a specific researcher that I can work with here at Penn State Abington. Her name is Ann Martinelli. Ann is teaching professor here at Penn State Abington and she has an Ed. D in reading leadership: Widner, 2016 she also has M.Ed. Educational Administration: Temple University, 2001 and B. A Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education: Temple University, 1998. Some of her research interests and concepts in early childhood education include: 

• sharing  knowledge regarding the reading process with colleagues and pre-service teachers in the college classroom
• sharing educational instruction with fellow educators who desire to move forward with teaching the reading process to learners
• She is well versed in offering professional development sessions to support teachers’ knowledge of reading practices

And the core area of her research  is on the development of the lifelong learner and how we as people maintain a high level of engagement through the effective use of technology

I find it inturing that Martinelli studies the development of the lifelong learner and how through technology we maintain a high level engagement and I am looking forward to looking more into what that means and doing my own research about it. If I had to devote a long time to studying something in this field I would definitely look more into how we maintain focus with having technology all around us. I would also look into how we learn the way we do and what drives us to learn. I would also like to study why some people need to learn in different ways then others because sometimes the way you learn is not the way someone else may be able to comprehend the same information.