TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-11-01Epub Date: 2020-04-22DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7
Jay Bhuyan, Fan Wu, Cassandra Thomas, Kai Koong, Jung Won Hur, Chih-Hsuan Wang
{"title":"Aerial Drone: an Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Minority High School Students in the U.S.","authors":"Jay Bhuyan, Fan Wu, Cassandra Thomas, Kai Koong, Jung Won Hur, Chih-Hsuan Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes the design, implementation, and results of an NSF funded Summer Academy from 2016 to 2018, which engaged, on an annual basis, 30 to 60 rising 10th and 11th grade high school science students in an innovative, technology-enriched Project Based Learning (PBL) environment. This Academy emphasized how tech gadgets work and the impact that technology can have on improving communities by immersing students in the exploration of one such device that is a growing phenomenon, the \"aerial drone.\" In this Academy, the students learned various operations of the drone through Python programming language, and some cybersecurity issues and solutions. The student teams, under the guidance of diverse mentors, comprehensively fortified their STEM problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Both formative and summative evaluations for this Academy showed that it helped students improve their critical thinking ability and motivated them to pursue careers in STEM-related disciplines, specifically in information technology and cybersecurity areas.</p>","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 6","pages":"899-910"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39314839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-10-22DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00551-y
Camille Dickson-Deane
{"title":"Where Do we Go from Here ….","authors":"Camille Dickson-Deane","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00551-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00551-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 6","pages":"812-813"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00551-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38540513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-30DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00544-x
Beth Rajan Sockman, Fredrick W Baker, Samantha J Blevins, M Aaron Bond, Angela Doucet Rand
{"title":"Introduction to the September 2020 Special Issue: Harnessing Systems Thinking to Inform Meaningful Change Efforts in Organizations.","authors":"Beth Rajan Sockman, Fredrick W Baker, Samantha J Blevins, M Aaron Bond, Angela Doucet Rand","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00544-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00544-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 5","pages":"682-683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00544-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38359099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-13DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00527-y
Theodore W Frick
{"title":"Education Systems and Technology in 1990, 2020, and Beyond.","authors":"Theodore W Frick","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00527-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00527-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In <i>Restructuring Education Through Technology,</i> I incorporated systems thinking to identify seven types of relationships in educational systems: teacher-student, student-content, student-context, teacher-content, teacher-context, content-context, and education system-environment relationships (Frick 1991). I now revisit these education system relations and discuss potential futures of education. The World Wide Web did not exist when I wrote the original treatise, nor did wireless smartphones and tablets, Google's search engine, YouTube, Facebook, or Wikipedia. However, one important education system relationship should not change: the affective bonding between teachers and their students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 5","pages":"693-703"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00527-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38398724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-09DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00534-z
Irene A Bal, Okan Arslan, Kiran Budhrani, Zixin Mao, Kae Novak, Pauline S Muljana
{"title":"The Balance of Roles: Graduate Student Perspectives during the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Irene A Bal, Okan Arslan, Kiran Budhrani, Zixin Mao, Kae Novak, Pauline S Muljana","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00534-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00534-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted personal and professional lives. Graduate students juggle a variety of roles and had to quickly adjust. In this article, six graduate students share their reflections regarding the influence of the pandemic on respective stages in their doctoral program. They provide unique personal and professional perspectives that depict their abrupt shift to remote working and remote learning. The intention of this article is to garner an understanding of graduate students' challenges during the pandemic, capture their strategies for success, and provide a space for further conversation and support about how the pandemic has impacted graduate students.</p>","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 6","pages":"796-798"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00534-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38398723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-08-08DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00535-y
Rohit Mehta, Danah Henriksen, Punya Mishra
{"title":"\"Let Children Play!\": Connecting Evolutionary Psychology and Creativity with Peter Gray.","authors":"Rohit Mehta, Danah Henriksen, Punya Mishra","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00535-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00535-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 5","pages":"684-689"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00535-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38398722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-05-14DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00509-0
Ümit Kartoğlu, Ria Christine Siagian, Thomas C Reeves
{"title":"Creating a \"Good Clinical Practices Inspection\" Authentic Online Learning Environment through Educational Design Research.","authors":"Ümit Kartoğlu, Ria Christine Siagian, Thomas C Reeves","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00509-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00509-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Educational design research (EDR) was applied to address the challenge of providing more public health professionals with opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills related to Good Clinical Practices (GCP) inspections. The conduct of clinical research in accordance with the principles of GCP is necessary to ensure that clinical research participants are not exposed to undue risk, and that data generated from the research are valid and accurate. The safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other healthcare products depend upon the application of GCP. The World Health Organization has been providing a global face-to-face GCP Inspection course in Indonesia for a decade, but budget constraints only allow this course to be offered once a year to 15 participants. This paper describes how the move from a face-to-face course to an online authentic learning environment was accomplished through EDR and concludes with a discussion of design principles derived from the research. The results of a beta test of the new online course with 12 participants are also described in the paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 4","pages":"616-627"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00509-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37940672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TechTrendsPub Date : 2020-01-01Epub Date: 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1007/s11528-020-00549-6
Royce Kimmons
{"title":"Current Trends (and Missing Links) in Educational Technology Research and Practice.","authors":"Royce Kimmons","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00549-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00549-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has historically been difficult to find reliable, up-to-date information about educational technology trends, such as what researchers are studying and what tools practitioners are using, thereby making it difficult for researchers and practitioners to synergize their efforts in meaningful, socially-responsive ways. In this editorial, I analyze titles and abstracts of 7708 research articles from prominent journals over the past 5 years to identify common topics-such as \"online,\" \"mobile,\" and \"learning analytics.\" I also extract links from 51,496 K-12 school and 1317 university websites in the U.S. to identify common tools that they are linking to-such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Docs, and YouTube. I propose that these sorts of metrics provide a baseline understanding for other researchers and practitioners to draw upon when situating their work and that they can also give us insights into areas that merit greater attention for addressing real-world problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 6","pages":"803-809"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00549-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38508110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Playing with Creativity Across the Lifespan: a Conversation with Dr. Sandra Russ.","authors":"Shagun Singha, Melissa Warr, Punya Mishra, Danah Henriksen","doi":"10.1007/s11528-020-00514-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00514-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47534,"journal":{"name":"TechTrends","volume":"64 4","pages":"550-554"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s11528-020-00514-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"38398721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}