1/6/20-3/31/22 PIs: Ivon Arroyo University of Massachusetts Amherst Award Details The role of embodiment (e.g., the use of both fine-grained and gross motor gestures) in mathematics learning for young students is well-established. With the recent success of mobile games, there is more public awareness of augmented reality – a real-time view of a physical, real-world […]
Category Archives: CAREER
CAREER: Dialogue Engagement for Educational Robots
6/1/20-5/31/25 PIs: Heather Pon-Barry Mount Holyoke College Award Details The activities in this Faculty Early Career Development project are rooted in a social educational robot that collaborates with students in STEM learning. The robot acts as a peer learner who asks students to teach them how to approach mathematics and computer science problems. The process […]
CAREER: Improving Adaptive Decision Making in Interactive Learning Environments
3/1/17-2/28/22 PIs: Min Chi North Carolina State University Award Details Interactive Learning Environments (ILEs) hold great promise for improving student performance in STEM education. While, traditionally, such systems have focused on teaching students subject matter, an equally important facet is to teach them how become better learners. The objective of this project is to develop […]
CAREER: Intelligent Representations: How to Blend Physical and Virtual Representations by Adapting to the Individual Student’s Needs in Real Time
7/1/17-6/30/22 PIs: Martina Rau University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details Adaptive educational technologies can much improve students’ learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) domains. A particular strength of these technologies is that they can provide interactive models that visualize complex concepts. Educational technologies typically use virtual models that students manipulate via mouse or keyboard. […]
CAREER: Designing a New Nexus: Examining the Social Construction of Electronics and Computing Toolkits to Broaden Participation and Deepen Learning
8/1/16-10/31/19 PI: Kylie Peppler Indiana University Award Details The persistently lopsided gender makeup of computer and information science programs in US universities and colleges suggests that the gender gap in computing education is still obstinately wide. Despite several national initiatives to diversify participation in STEM fields, the underlying culture of computing education remains relatively stagnant, […]
CAREER: Constructing Modern and Inclusive Trajectories for Computer Science Learning
PI: R. Benjamin Shapiro University of Colorado at Boulder Award Details Tufts University proposes a CAREER award that will investigate new ways of teaching computer science to middle- and high-school students. Many of the computing technologies that youth use every day are built using ideas and techniques from computer science that are well outside of […]
CAREER: DataSketch: Exploring Computational Data Visualization in the Middle Grades
7/01/2016-6/30/2019 PI: Michelle Wilkerson-Jerde Tufts University Award Details Increasingly, the data visualizations used in contemporary science and media move beyond conventional graphs or diagrams to use problem-specific imagery and computational techniques to reveal patterns of interest. K-12 students, however, do not have many opportunities to explore such data visualizations, or to author their own. The […]