Ariella is a PhD graduate from the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology at the Technion. Her dissertation is about aspects of flexible thinking and knowledge construction in collaborative learning. Ariella received her M.A. with honors from The Open University, Department of Learning Technologies (2010) and holds a B.A. in special education from Haifa University (1987). Ariella works in the education ministry, dealing with teacher professional development and ICT, and she is a lecturer in Gordon Academic College of Education.