8/1/19-7/31/22 PIs: Ivon Arroyo, Gillian Smith, Erin Ottmar Worcester Polytechnic Institute Award Details Our nation’s economy is rapidly shifting. Both educators and business leaders recognize that computational thinking (CT) is a “new basic” knowledge necessary for economic opportunity and social mobility. All students should have the opportunity to learn computational thinking in school and be […]
Tag Archives: Computational thinking
EXP: Augmenting a Teachable Robot with Adaptive Cognitive and Social Support
8/19/19-7/31/21 PI: Winslow Burleson University of Arizona Award Details This proposal investigates robotic teachable agents, a type of cyberlearning technology that provides cognitive and affective feedback to support students’ learning. The Tangible Activities for Geometry system (TAG) is a robotic teachable agent platform for middle school mathematics and computational thinking. Students physically engage within a […]
Designing and Evaluating a Naturalistic Platform for Collaborative Learning About Spatial Reasonings
9/1/18-8/31/21 PIs: Marcelo Worsley, David Uttal Northwestern University Award Details Spatial reasoning and computational thinking are essential knowledge for future workers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Researchers in this project will design and study an intelligent multimodal interface to support elementary and middle school students to learn these cognitive skills on a collaborative […]
Synthesis and Design Workshop: Distributed Collaboration in STEM-Rich Project-Based Learning
9/1/18-8/31/19 PI: Eric Hamilton Pepperdine University Award Details This project will convene a synthesis and design workshop on next generation science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning. It envisions a two-tier timeline that looks three years and then ten years into the future. One primary workshop topic involves design considerations for “boundary-crossing” project-based learning, by […]
Synthesis and Design Workshop: Digital Science and Data Analytic Learning Environments at Small Liberal Arts Institutions
9/1/18-8/31/19 PIs: John Symms, Jane Hopp Carroll University Award Details This workshop is funded through the “Dear Colleague Letter: Principles for the Design of Digital Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Learning Environments (NSF 18-017).” Driven by rapid technological change, the United States is facing a critical workforce shortage in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics […]
EXP: Readily Available Learning Experiences: Turning the Entire Web into Progressive Examples to Bridge Conceptual Knowledge Gaps for Novice Web Developers
9/01/2017-8/31/2020 PI: Haoqi Zhang, Eleanor O’Rourke Northwestern University Award Details Computing is changing our world, and there is an urgent need to train large numbers of professional developers to meet the demands of our nation’s economy. While it is relatively easy to learn basic computing concepts, acquiring the conceptual knowledge and problem-solving skills of professional […]
EXP: Automatically Synthesizing Valid, Personalized, Formative Assessments of CS1 Concepts
9/01/2017-08/31/2020 PI: Andrew Ko University of Washington Award Details Millions of people worldwide are trying to learn to code in schools, colleges, universities, and online. To do so successfully, they need significant practice and meaningful feedback that responds to their specific confusions and builds upon the knowledge they already have. Unfortunately, good practice content is […]
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 […]
EAGER: Teaching Computational Thinking through Programming Wearable Devices as Finite State Machines
12/1/16-11/30/18 PIs: Ivon Arroyo, Kathryn Fisler, Erin Ottmar Worcester Polytechnic Institute Award Details This research project will use cell phone technology and SmartWatches to train middle school students in public schools in computational thinking and mathematics, by having children create such augmented reality games with math related challenges. This new genre of embodied technologies (mobile […]
EXP: Linking Eye Movements with Visual Attention to Enhance Cyberlearning
8/15/16-7/31/18 PIs: Daniel Levin, Adriane Seiffert, Gautam Biswas Vanderbilt University Award Details Although hardware and software solutions are rapidly advancing the ability to detect and track cyberlearners’ eye movements, the scientific understanding of the link between these eye movements and actual learning remains tentative. This issue is particularly important because research demonstrates surprising limits to […]