Technology can enhance how students learn when they work with all the students in their classroom to investigate a topic. In commonplace use of web technology, teachers and students share information and may respond to requests for help.
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Linking Superheroes and Technology to STEM Aspirations
This project demonstrates how making these connections during early adolescence helps to spark aspirations to pursue STEM-related interests and academic pursuits.
Support for Young Researchers to attend the 2014 Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference
PI: Beverly Woolf University of Massachusetts Amherst Award Details The United States has historically been the global leader in the field of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, or ways to use computerized […]
CAP: CSCL 2015 Doctoral Consortium and Early Career Workshop
PI: Jianwei Zhang SUNY at Albany Award Details The Learning Sciences is an interdisciplinary field that draws on multiple theoretical perspectives and research paradigms, with the goal of advancing knowledge […]
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 […]
Virtual Environment Interactions: Exploring Grounded Embodied Pedagogy in Support of Computational Thinking
PIs: Shaundra Daily, Sabarish Babu, Sophie Joerg, Alison Leonard Clemson University Award Details This INSPIRE award is partially funded by the CE21 Program in the Division of Computer & Network […]
RAPID: Learning in the Making: Leveraging Technologies for Impact
PIs: Erica Halverson, Kimberly Sheridan University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details The practices of critique and portfolio creation are crucial to successful learning from design and making. Critique involves carefully describing […]
INDP: Collaborative Research: Coding for All: Interest-Driven Trajectories to Computational Fluency
PIs: Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, MIT (Award Details) Mizuko Ito, University of California-Irvine (Award Details) Urs Gasser, Harvard University (Award Details) This Cyberlearning Integration and Deployment (INDP) project brings together […]
Synergistic Teaching of Computational Thinking and Scientific Modeling
CTSiM implements a visual mode of programming to enable students to represent phenomena computationally without having to learn the syntax of a programming language.
Badge-Based STEM Assessment: Current Terrain and the Road Ahead
PIs: Michelle Riconscente, Margaret Honey New York Hall of Science Award Details The New York Hall of Science proposes a two-pronged workshop project that will: (1) conduct a study of […]