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Professional Development Supports for Teaching Bioinformatics through Mobile Learning

Principal Investigator:
Susan Yoon
Bioinformatics is an emerging area of research that develops new knowledge through computational analysis of vast biological data. This project investigates the professional development (PD) supports needed for teaching bioinformatics at the high school. Building from a robust literature in PD design research, project team worked with science teachers to co-design instructional modules to engage students with core bioinformatics concepts and data literacies, by focusing on local community health issues supported through mobile learning activities.
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Discipline/Topic:
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Educational Technology
Professional Development
Target Audience:
High School

PBS News Hour Student Reporting Labs StoryMaker: STEM-Integrated Student Journalism

Principal Investigator:
Leah Clapman
Sneak peek at StoryMaker, a video storytelling platform /educator co-learning community supporting students to produce videos about STEM projects.
PI: Leah Clapman, PBS NewsHour
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Discipline/Topic:
Science
Technology
Broadening Participation
Classroom Practice
Curriculum
Educational Technology
Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Target Audience:
Middle School
High School

Online Practice Suite: Practice Spaces, Simulations and Virtual Reality Environments for Preservice Teachers to Learn to Facilitate Argumentation Discussions in Math and Science

Principal Investigator:
Jamie Mikeska

This poster provides an overview of our three-year project where researchers are using a design-based research approach to develop, pilot, and refine a set of coordinated and complementary practice-based activities that teacher education programs can deploy to provide practice-based learning opportunities for preservice teachers. The goal is to help the preservice teachers to engage in authentic, purposeful, and scaffolded approximations of practice as they develop their ability to facilitate argumentation-focused discussions in mathematics and science.

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Discipline/Topic:
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Assessment
Curriculum
Educational Technology
Target Audience:
Post-secondary

Assessing College-Ready Computational Thinking (Collaborative Research: Brown and Wilson)

Principal Investigator:
Mark Wilson

This project seeks to develop and validate learning progressions and items with dynamic features to generate machine-scorable student responses for assessing computational thinking, in a test of college-ready critical reasoning skills, and to integrate these items into an existing online assessment system, the Berkeley Assessment System Software (BASS). This assessment is intended to be useful for formative and summative purposes in high-school and introductory college-level STEM classes, including mathematics and computer science courses.

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Discipline/Topic:
Computer Science
Technology
Assessment
Educational Technology
Target Audience:
High School
Post-secondary

Anchoring High School Students in Real-Life Issues that Integrate STEM Content and Literacy

Principal Investigator:
Amy Lannin

Through the integration of STEM content and literacy, this project studies the ways teachers implement literacy practices in the STEM classroom. Teachers will facilitate instruction using scenarios that present students with STEM-related issues, presented as scenarios. After reading and engaging with math and science content, students write a source-based argument in which they state a claim, support the claim with evidence from the texts, and explain the multiple perspectives on the issue.

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Discipline/Topic:
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Assessment
Curriculum
Target Audience:
Middle School
High School

“Zooming In” on Robotics during COVID-19: A Preservice Teacher, an Engineering Student, and a 5th Grader Engineer Robotic Flowers via Zoom

Engineering
Technology
Educational Technology
Elementary
Undergraduate
Graduate

The COVID-19 induced school shutdown dramatically decreased students’ hands-on STEM learning opportunities. An NSF-funded program partnering preservice teachers and undergraduate engineering students to teach robotics to fifth graders was adapted to a virtual format via Zoom. A case study intimately explored one team’s experience as they engineered bio-inspired robots over five weekly sessions. Zoom recordings, written reflections, and lesson slides were analyzed to describe how the virtual context shaped the lesson and influenced the preservice teacher’s experience.

Author/Presenter

Jennifer Kidd

Krishna Kaipa

Kristie Gutierrez

Pilar Pazos

Orlando Ayala

Stacie Ringleb

Lead Organization(s)
Old Dominion University (ODU)
Year
2020
Short Description

An NSF-funded program partnering preservice teachers and undergraduate engineering students to teach robotics to fifth graders was adapted to a virtual format via Zoom. A case study intimately explored one team’s experience as they engineered bio-inspired robots over five weekly sessions.

Resource(s)
___Zooming_In____on_Robotics_during_COVID_19__A_Preservice_Teacher__an_Engineering_Student__and_a_5t.pdf

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program) Full Proposal Deadline

Event Date
Sponsoring Organization
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505512&org=EHR&sel_org….

Discipline/Topic
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Event Type
Funding Opportunity

Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Full Proposal Deadline

Event Date
Sponsoring Organization
National Science Foundation (NSF)

Institutional and Community Transformation Capacity-Building Proposals
Engaged Student Learning and Institutional and Community Transformation Level 1 Proposals

Learn more at https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505082&org=EHR&sel_org….

Discipline/Topic
Engineering
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Event Type
Funding Opportunity

CHALK Coaching Website

Technology
Classroom Practice
Pre-K

The CHALK tool is a progressive web application that guides educators to improve instructional quality in early education settings. CHALK provides targeted observation tools that allow instructional coaches to easily track key classroom practices on their digital devices in real-time. This tool instantly transforms observation data into user-friendly visualizations for coaches and teachers to engage in data-driven coaching conversations for professional growth.

Access Link
https://chalkcoaching.com/
Author/Presenter

CHALK Project Team

Year
2020
Short Description

The CHALK tool is a progressive web application that guides educators to improve instructional quality in early education settings. CHALK provides targeted observation tools that allow instructional coaches to easily track key classroom practices on their digital devices in real-time.

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