Fall 2016 Newsletter

News from DR K-12 Projects & Awardees

• Evaluating and Understanding STEM Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood
  Blog | In her post on SRI International's blog, Ximena Dominguez discusses early STEM teaching, learning and evaluation.
• Modeling in Science: K-2
  Blog | In their post on the Teaching Channel's Tcher Voice blog, Jessica Thompson and Jen Richards provide and discuss a series of videos examples of scientific modeling in K-2 classrooms.
• 50 Years Ago, One Report Introduced Americans to the Black-White Achievement Gap. Here's What We've Learned Since.
  In the Press | In Chalkbeat, Heather Hill discusses the Coleman report and its effect on education research.
• App of the Week: Free Science and Math Simulations for All Ages
  In the Press | PhetSims was featured as the eSchool News App of the Week.
• Can All Students Succeed at Science and Tech High Schools? 
  In the Press | U.S. News & World Report discusses the work of Sharon Lynch and Barbara Means on STEM high schools.
• The Importance of Getting Things Wrong
  In the Press | In August, nprEd featured Philip Sadler's work on teacher knowledge of common student misconceptions.
• Meet the New Math, Unlike the Old Math 
  In the Press | Daniel Damelin, Joseph Krajcik, and Alan Schoenfeld are quoted in a Quanta Magazine article on issues surrounding implementation of the Common Core and NGSS standards.
• Research in Action: Dr. Todd Campbell on Managing Large Research Grants
  In the Press | In episode 28 of Oregon State's Research in Action podcast, Todd Campbell offers advice on applying for large research grants and managing the project.
• Students 'Intern' as Engineers 
  In the Press | DIMEs: Immersing Teachers and Students in Virtual Engineering Internships was featured in an NSF post for its work enabling students to 'intern' as engineers.
• AERA Knowledge Forum
  Presentation | Watch Ed-Talk videos or read fact sheets from AERA Knowledge Forum scholars, including DR K-12 project members Sharon Nelson-Barber, William Penuel, and Barbara Schneider.
• A Framework for Understanding the Characteristics of Complexity in Biology
  Publication | Former CADRE Fellow (2012-13), Jenny Dauer, co-wrote this article describing a framework to explore student reasoning about complex biological systems.
• Achieving Liftoff
  Publication | Todd Campbell provides a video introduction to his Science Teacher article of the same name, in which he and two high school teachers explore teaching and learning using a storyline approach.
• Creating a Hybrid Immersive Mathematics Experience
  Publication | This NCTM article focuses on the Electronic Communities for Mathematics Instruction (e-CMI) professional development program, that aims to develop teachers knowledge of mathematics and support a manner of teaching that embeds habits of mind. 
• Designing Disruptions for Productive Hybridity: The Case of Walking Scale Geometry
  Publication | Jasmine Ma explores an alternative strategy for designing hybrid instructional environments in the Journal of the Learning Sciences.
• Facilitating Teacher Learning When Using Different Representations of Practice
  Publication | Gloriana Gonzalez Rivera and Lisa Skultety (2015 CADRE FEllow) co-author this article about their study investigating facilitation of professional development to promote teacher learning using animation and video.
• Instructional Scaffolding in STEM Education: Strategies and Efficacy Evidence
  Publication | In this book, Brian Belland examines the extent to which study quality, assessment type, and scaffolding characteristics (strategy, intended outcome, fading schedule, scaffolding intervention, and paired intervention) influence cognitive student outcomes.
• Scholars in the Digital Age: Social Scholarship and Practices
  Publication | In this article, Christine Greenhow and her colleagues discuss the conceptualization of social scholarship.
• STEM 2026 A Vision for Innovation in STEM Education
  Publication | The Department of Education mentioned EcoMUVE and EcoMOBILE as exemplary tools in their report on resources that may be helpful in reaching a vision for the future of STEM education.
• Teaching Children Mathematics
  Publication | The October issue of NCTM's Teaching Children Mathematics includes articles written by a number of current and former DR K-12 project members, including Amy Brodesky, E. Paul Goldenberg, Elham Kazemi, Kristen Reed, and Cheryl Tobey.
• ERGO Database
  Resource | Developing Principles for Mathematics Curriculum Design and Use in the Common Core Era has created a database of ~1000 data artifacts around teachers' understanding and use of curriculum materials in relation to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM). To access the database, complete a 5 minute survey around your research interests.
• Next Generation Science Storylines
  Resource | Brian Reiser and his colleagues are developing coherent 3-dimensional storylines for K-12 classrooms.

  Email cadre@edc.org to share news from your project.

• CAISE Guide to Resources for Broadening Participation in STEM
  In August, the Association of Science-Technology Centers and CAISE convened a Digital Resource Curation Workshop where participants identified projects relevant to broadening participation in the informalscience.org database. The resulting guide is intended to provide a starting point for those aiming to broaden participation in STEM.
• CIRCL Primer: Computational Thinking
  Satabdi Basu, Eni Mustafara, and Katie Rich provide key lessons from computational thinking definitions, frameworks, and research; a summary of issues related to computational thinking; and information on projects working in this area. The primer also includes resources and readings suggested by the Cyberlearning 2017 Working Group. 
• MSP News: Access and Barriers in CS
  Earlier this month, MSPnet shared a collection of resources and information related to learning and teaching computer science, including websites, publications, and project information.
• STEM Career Education Outcomes
  STELAR recently highlighted the ITEST program's role in preparing youth to participate in today's STEM workforce and offered an extensive collection of resources related to STEM career education outcomes.

See our Upcoming NSF Network Events page for CIRCL, CAISE, STELAR, MSPnet, or CS for All events that may be of interest to you.

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Upcoming Opportunities

• December 5, 2016 (Proposal) - Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK12)
• February 10, 2017 (Proposal) - Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies (Cyberlearning)
• March 14, 2017 (Proposal) - STEM + Computing Partnerships (STEM+C)