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Standards in K-12 Tech Literacy & Engineering: Implications for Design & Research (Schunn)

Author/Presenter

Christian Schunn

Year
2009
Short Description

Join the panelists from the plenary presentation to continue conversations about common
standards in each of the STEM disciplines.

Resource(s)

Situated Assessments Using Virtual Environments : The SAVE Science Project

Author/Presenter

Uma Natarajan

Diane Jass Ketelhut

Catherine Schifter

Brian Nelson

Angela Shelton

Year
2010
Short Description

This is the final poster that was presented at the PI conference in Washington, DC. it was part of the DRK 12 Sims & Games session proposal of 12 posters.

Situated assessment using virtual environments for science content and inquiry (Ketelhut, Nelson, Schifter)

Author/Presenter

Diane Ketelhut

Brian Nelson

Catherine Schifter

Year
2009
Short Description

In this session, the presenters discuss findings and experiences regarding technology-embedded assessment and how to support teachers in using it effectively.

ScratchEd: Working with Teachers to Develop Design-Based Learning Approaches to the Cultivation of Computational Thinking

Author/Presenter

Karen Brennan

Mitch Resnick

Year
2010
Short Description

In this poster, we describe the goals of our research, our proposed model for professional development, our framing of design-based approaches to learning, and our framing of computational thinking.

SciJourner Volume 1, Issue 4

The fourth print edition from summer 2009 of our science news publication, in pdf format. The articles in this edition, unlike the others, are written by high school teachers who participated in our summer PD.

Author/Presenter

SciJourners

Year
2009
Short Description

The fourth print edition from summer 2009 of our science news publication, in pdf format. The articles in this edition, unlike the others, are written by high school teachers who participated in our summer PD.

Research on Student Understanding of Data Organization

Author/Presenter

Cliff Konold

Vishakha Parvate

William Finzer

Year
2010
Short Description

As part of the Data Games project, we are researching how students record and organize multivariate data. This research is informing the design of new software interfaces for Fathom and TinkerPlots that will allow students to explore and understand data that live in other than "flat" data structures — the structures that most software tools currently limit themselves to.
We have designed the Traffic Problem to explore the following questions:
1. What methods do novices and experts use to sytematically record data with multiple attributes?
2. In recording data, do students employ a recognizable notion of “case?"

Refining a Vision of Ambitious Mathematics Instruction to Address Issues of Equity

Note: A previous version of this paper was presented at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Research Pre-Session in San Diego (April 2010) and the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Denver (April 2010).

Author/Presenter

Jackson, Kara

Cobb, Paul

Year
2010