Biography
Marie Heath (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Learning Design and Technology at Loyola University Maryland; Co-Founder and Executive Director of Civics of Technology, an organization with international reach that empowers students and educators to critically inquire into the effects of technologies on their individual and collective lives; Co-Editor of the CITE Social Studies Journal; and Faculty Associate at Loyola's Center for Research and Evaluation. She recently co-authored an award-winning book, Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Joy and Justice. Prior to her work in higher education, Marie taught high school social studies in Baltimore County Public Schools. Her scholarship has won awards for its influence on teacher education, social studies education, and technology education, as well as for public reach and community engagement. She is a sought-after public speaker, award-winning teacher, and advocate for technological futures rooted in justice, joy, and democracy.
Research Interest
Dr. Heath's scholarship interrogates schools and technologies as current sites of encoded oppression, and labors to advance more just technological and educational futures. Marie has published over 50 scholarly articles, book chapters, and proceedings on AI, technology, justice, equity, and education. Her award-winning 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, was recently published 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 The 2026 Martin Haberman Outstanding Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) Article Award for her work on bias in AI; the 2026 Loyola University of Maryland Faculty Excellence Award in Community Engaged Scholarship; the 2025 Scholar of the Year at Loyola University Maryland; 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.
Recent Publications
Smith Budhai, S. & Heath, M. K., (2026). Critical AI in K-12 classrooms: A practical guide for cultivating joy and justice. Harvard Education Press.
Warr, M. & Heath, M.K. (2025). Uncovering the hidden curriculum in Generative AI: A reflective technology audit for teacher educators. Journal of Teacher Education. 76(3), 245-261.
Krutka D. G. & Heath, M.K. (2025). A technoskeptical approach to generative AI in social studies. In C. Clark & C. van Kessel (Eds.), AI in Social Education: Tools for Thoughtful Practice with Generative Artificial Intelligence. Teachers College Press.
Krutka, D. G., Heath, M. K., & Pleasants, J. (2024). Technoskepticism in social studies education. In B. Varga & E. Adams (Eds.), The Theory-Story Reader for Social Studies. Teachers College Press.
Smith, K. L., Shade, L. R., Grant, L., Kumar, P. C., Zaffaroni, L. G., Amadori, G., Mascheroni, G., Heath, M.K., Krutka, D.G., Pangrazio, L. and Selwyn, N.& Jarke, J. (2024). Children as Data Subjects: Families, Schools, and Everyday Lives. In Dialogues in Data Power (pp. 31-51). Bristol University Press.
Mishra, P., & Heath, M. K. (2024). The (Neil) postman always rings twice: 5 questions on AI and education. M. Searson, L, Langran, J. Trumble (Eds.) Generative AI in Teacher Education: Opportunities, Challenges and Visions for the Future. AACE.
Pleasants, J., Gui, X., Krutka, D. G., Logan, C., & Heath, M. K. (2024). Coming to critical technology consciousness: a phenomenological study of educators. Learning, Media and Technology, 1-14.
Heath, M. K., & Moore, S. (2024). Locating TPACK XK Between Theory and Practice: Reflective Practice, Applied Ethics, and Technoskeptical Dispositions. Computers and Education Open, 100204.