2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)最新文献

The effect of interactive digital storytelling gamification on microbiology classroom interactions 交互式数字故事游戏化对微生物学课堂互动的影响

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-04-19 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340493

A. Molnar

引用次数: 7

Integrating interactive computer simulations into K-12 earth and environmental science 将交互式计算机模拟整合到K-12地球和环境科学中

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340488

M. Zhu, N. Panorkou, P. Lal, Sowmith Etikyala, Erell Germia, Pricilla Iranah, B. Samanthula, Debasmita Basu

引用次数: 7

Bridging between electrochemistry and microbiology for a brighter future: Microbial fuel cells 连接电化学和微生物学，创造更美好的未来:微生物燃料电池

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340475

N. Ng

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引用次数: 0

The impact of an integrated Pre-K STEM curriculum on teachers' engineering content knowledge, self-efficacy, and teaching practices 综合学前STEM课程对教师工程内容知识、自我效能感和教学实践的影响

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340489

Bernadette Sibuma, Susmitha Wunnava, Melissa-Sue John, F. Anggoro, Mia Dubosarsky

{"title":"The impact of an integrated Pre-K STEM curriculum on teachers' engineering content knowledge, self-efficacy, and teaching practices","authors":"Bernadette Sibuma, Susmitha Wunnava, Melissa-Sue John, F. Anggoro, Mia Dubosarsky","doi":"10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340489","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a pilot study to determine the potential impact of an integrated STEM curriculum on Pre-K teachers' engineering content knowledge, self-efficacy and teaching practice. Using a randomized control trial design, researchers examined the impact of the curriculum in 17 Pre-K classrooms (8 intervention classrooms, 9 control classrooms) in central Massachusetts. Questionnaires measuring STEM and engineering content knowledge, self-efficacy and teaching practice were administered to participating Pre-K teachers (N=42; 21 intervention, 21 control) in Fall 2017 and again in Spring 2018. Baseline analysis showed no significant differences in engineering and STEM content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, or teaching self-efficacy at the start of the pilot study between intervention and comparison classroom teachers. Fidelity of implementation was measured using an observation instrument developed by the project team based on a published implementation science framework. We hypothesized that teachers who implement the integrated STEM curriculum will have significantly higher engineering pedagogical content knowledge and self-efficacy than teachers in the comparison group. As well the teachers who implement the integrated STEM curriculum will show significant gains in their engineering pedagogical content knowledge and self-efficacy in teaching engineering and STEM as a result of their participation.","PeriodicalId":186215,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123615932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 4

Serious games: Quality characteristics evaluation framework and case study 严肃游戏:质量特征评估框架与案例研究

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340460

A. J. Abdellatif, B. McCollum, P. McMullan

引用次数: 21

Inspiring high school students to engage with current issues in science and medicine with an interdisciplinary course entitled science and literature of disease 通过一门名为“疾病科学与文献”的跨学科课程，鼓励高中生参与科学和医学领域的当前问题

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340458

S. Kim, N. Stogdill

{"title":"Inspiring high school students to engage with current issues in science and medicine with an interdisciplinary course entitled science and literature of disease","authors":"S. Kim, N. Stogdill","doi":"10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340458","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340458","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a new interdisciplinary course entitled Science and Literature of Disease offered since 2015 for second-semester high school seniors at Polytechnic School, a college-preparatory school in Pasadena, CA. The course is taught by a physician and an English teacher who initiated this course to inspire the students to identify, understand, and analyze timely issues in science and medicine. Each year, approximately 15–20 students enroll and obtain credit for a science elective and AP English Literature. Students also receive credit toward receiving a Global Initiatives Certificate from Polytechnic School's Global Initiative Program (GIP). The course is student-driven and incorporates timely issues in science and disease identified by the instructors and students. Students respond positively to the course. Medical topics include the plague, tuberculosis, malaria, cancer, and AIDS. Students read Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, Leo Tolstoy's Death of Ivan Ilyich, Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, On Doctoring edited by Reynolds and Stone, Cameron Conway's Malaria Poems, Somerset Maugham's Sanatorium, and excerpts from Boccaccio's Decameron. Key lessons learned are presented. Feedback from the students seems to indicate that this environment fosters a sense that the students cherish the course and the contributions of their peers, and reasons are discussed.","PeriodicalId":186215,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125581415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Towards playful learning and computational thinking — Developing the educational robot BRICKO 走向有趣的学习和计算思维——开发教育机器人BRICKO

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340502

Bjarke Kristian Maigaard Kjær Pedersen, K. Andersen, Anders J⊘rgensen, Simon Köslich, Fardin Sherzai, Jacob Nielsen

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引用次数: 15

Using escape room-like puzzles to teach undergraduate students effective and efficient group process skills 利用密室逃脱式的谜题来教授本科生有效和高效的小组处理技巧

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340495

P. Williams

{"title":"Using escape room-like puzzles to teach undergraduate students effective and efficient group process skills","authors":"P. Williams","doi":"10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340495","url":null,"abstract":"Many jobs require the ability to collaborate effectively in teams, and STEM jobs are no exception. However, few curricula have been published that are explicitly designed to help undergraduates in STEM fields internalize the skills that are central to effective collaborative work. Students are typically assumed to be able to acquire these skills on their own. But when students without training are assigned to work in teams, they are no more likely to learn effective group process skills than if they were assigned a golf club and told to go figure out how to golf. In fact, without appropriate instruction and feedback, students typically develop counterproductive habits and attitudes, such as avoiding conflict, that undercut the effectiveness of a team. In this work-in-progress paper, I describe a curricular approach that has helped my students learn how to use teams in efficient, effective ways. It allows students to practice individual skills one at a time but also presents integrative team challenges that force them to decide how and when to apply specific group process skills and strategies. These challenges consist of 90-minute scavenger hunt or escape room-like puzzles that can only be completed within the time limit if students make efficient use of their assigned teams. Students describe these ungraded puzzles as anxiety-provoking but fun, and their progressive improvement over five once-a-week puzzles suggests that they internalize effective communication skills and learn ways of efficiently using teams to solve problems.","PeriodicalId":186215,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130331655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 19

Development of an embedded system course to teach the Internet-of-Things 开发一门嵌入式系统物联网课程

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340468

A. Ravishankar Rao, Daniel J. B. Clarke, Manthan Bhdiyadra, Siddharth Phadke

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引用次数: 14

Digital piracy, technology, the legal system and computing education 数字盗版、技术、法律体系和计算机教育

2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC) Pub Date : 2018-03-10 DOI: 10.1109/ISECON.2018.8340463

Bryan S. Passione, S. Robila

引用次数: 0