10/1/18-9/30/20 PIs: Robb Lindgren, Nathan Kimball, Emma Mercier, Jina Kang University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Award Details Augmented reality (AR) technologies are becoming increasingly accessible and there are promising opportunities to develop interactive virtual content that can be shared and worked on by multiple users. The Connections of Earth and Sky to Augmented Reality (CEASAR) […]
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Catalyzing Scientific Inquiry and Engineering through Wearable Intersubjective Sensation Devices
8/01/2017-7/31/2020 PI: R. Benjamin Shapiro University of Colorado at Boulder Award Details This project will investigate how to improve young people’s science skills, and to increase their perceptions of science as a pro-social field, through the design and enactment of a new science education approach that emphasizes curiosity about and investigation of animal perception and […]
Convergence HTF: Collaborative: Workshop on Convergence Research about Multimodal Human Learning Data during Human Machine Interactions
9/01/2017-8/31/2018 PI: Gautam Biswas Vanderbilt University Award Details Intelligent, interactive, and highly networked machines — with which people increasingly share their autonomy and agency — are a growing part of the landscape, particularly in regard to work. As automation today moves from the factory floor to knowledge and service occupations, insight and action are needed […]
The cognitive and neural mechanisms of computer programming in young children: storytelling or solving puzzles?
8/01/2017-7/31/2019 PIs: Marina Bers, Tufts University (Award Details) Evelina Fedorenko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Award Details) Research and policy changes over the recent years have brought a newfound focus on STEM for young children. Policy decisions regarding how and when to introduce computer science education would benefit from additional data. This project will investigate the […]
A Pedagogical Framework for Undergraduate Project-Based Engineering Design Courses
9/1/16-8/31/18 PI: Conor Walsh, Donal Holland, Krzysztof Gajos Harvard University Award Details Engineering courses involving design projects are increasingly of interest to educators setting curricula for undergraduate engineering programs. Design projects improve students’ problem solving abilities. However, much variation exists in how projects are implemented and existing guidelines are limited. This is due, in part, […]
Collaborative Research: An impact study to examine the efficacy of a mathematics professional development program for elementary teachers
9/1/15-8/31/19 PIs: Daniel Heck, Horizon Research Inc (Award Details) Paola Sztajn, North Carolina State University (Award Details) The project will develop and research the impact of an expanded model for mathematics professional development (PD) for elementary second and third grade teachers. It builds on the NSF-funded project, All Included in Mathematics (AIM). The PD is […]
Collaborative Research: Designing the Impact Studio — Dynamic Visualizations in the Write4Change Networked Community
10/1/16-9/30/18 PIs: Glynda Hull, University of California-Berkeley (Award Details) Amy Stornaiuolo, University of Pennsylvania (Award Details) The amount and variety of information generated and shared online requires young people to be adept at effectively producing, analyzing, assessing, using, visualizing, and circulating data. They must be data literate. This project investigates how adolescents develop data literacy […]
Track 2: CS10K: BJC-STARS: Scaling CS Principles through STARS community & leadership development
PI: Tiffany Barnes North Carolina State University Award Details North Carolina State University proposes BJC-STARS, a CS10K proposal to broaden access to computing education through engaging colleges and universities to prepare and support regional communities of high school teachers to teach the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) Computer Science Principles course. The effort leverages […]
Collaborative Research: Investigating How English Language Learners Use Dynamic Representational Technology to Participate in Middle School Mathematical Practices
PIs: Philip Vahey, Savitha Moorthy, Teresa Lara-Meloy, SRI International (Award Details) Tracey Noble, TERC Inc. (Award Details) The goal of the project is to bring together research about English-language learners with the use of dynamic representational technology for middle school quantitative reasoning. Dynamic representation technology allows learners to work with multiple representations of a problem […]
CRII: Cyberlearning: Teaching Intercultural Competence through Personal Informatics
PI: Amy Ogan Carnegie-Mellon University Award Details The need for intercultural competence has never been higher as technology makes it easier for people to engage in global communications, collaboration, and commerce. In higher education, the global and multicultural environment means that the challenges of intercultural communication exist within classrooms. This project would study how technology […]