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Students struggle to learn STEM concepts. The arts have been proposed as a means to engage students in STEM education, resulting in the idea of STEAM. However, STEAM approaches do...
DATE: December 1st, 2015
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This thesis investigates how people make meaning in and from museums, through encounters with artefacts which are mediated by portable digital technologies. It provides evidence that technology can help to...
DATE: October 1st, 2010
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This guide describes the project teamâs approach in designing exhibits intended to elicit âproductive struggle,â which we define as an experience with three elements: 1) a learner encounters a disruptive...
DATE: January 1st, 2021
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This volume explores the integration of recent research on everyday, classroom, and professional scientific thinking. It brings together an international group of researchers to present core findings from each context;...
DATE: April 12th, 2001
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This article describes a collaborative research project designed to learn about teacher identity in relation to teacher learning experiences that centered informal science education places and approaches. This article is...
DATE: December 31st, 2020
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The authors of this study investigated the educational potential of a digital math game called Zombie Division in an elementary classroom. Habgood & Ainsworth were interested in the effect of...
DATE: January 1st, 2015
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This paper examines the differences and challenges encountered when trying to create informal blended (virtual and hands-on) engineering design STEM activities. It contrasts the creation of STEM activities for formal...
DATE: May 15th, 2020
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Parents exert a strong influence on the development of foundational science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) skills in early childhood. This influence occurs, in large part, through playful parent-child interactions...
DATES: August 17th, 2018 - August 31st, 2022
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This research explores how to support collaborative learning practices when science museum visitors employ their own personal mobile devices as Opportunistic User Interfaces (O-UIs) to manipulate a simulation-based museum exhibit....
DATE: January 1st, 2009
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As part of the project, Designing our TomorrowâMobilizing the Next Generation of Engineers (DOT), OMSI developed a set of professional development (PD) training modules as a resource for educators in...
DATE: July 8th, 2024
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This front-end evaluation study is part of Designing Our Tomorrow: Mobilizing the Next Generation of Engineers, a five-year project (2018â2023) led by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)...
DATE: July 28th, 2020
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This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development...
DATES: August 1st, 2018 - July 31st, 2024
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Designing Our World (DOW) was a four-year NSF-funded initiative in which the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) sought to promote girlsâ pursuit of engineering careers through community-based programming,...
DATE: November 1st, 2016
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Designing Our World (DOW) was a four-year NSF-funded initiative in which the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) sought to promote girlsâ pursuit of engineering careers through community-based programming,...
DATE: December 15th, 2017
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The Designing Our World (DOW) project centers on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) equity and addresses the need for more youth, especially girls, to pursue engineering and fill vital...
DATE: September 1st, 2014
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The authors claim that if the students are given an overdose of information, their memories become âoverloadedâ; for example, engaging in an activity in a professional science laboratory. To counter...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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This paper reports on a two-year schoolwide professional development initiative designed to enhance teachersâ pedagogical skills in inquiry-based science instruction. The programme emphasised the importance of time for reflection and...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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Hamlin provides a how-to guide for leveraging traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to teach science in indigenous contexts. Her process uses the Vitality Index of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with ethnography to...
DATE: October 23rd, 2014
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What happens if we put âthe publicâ at the centre of our efforts to conceptualise, conduct and evaluate publicly engaged research? This Open University pamphlet outlines a public-centric approach to...
DATE: May 14th, 2015
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This article describes an afterschool science program targeting girls from communities underrepresented in the sciences. The authors argue for the need for such programs to build on research findings that...
DATE: August 1st, 2011
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In this article, the author expresses her views on how science technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) standards can be developed to upgrade lifelong science learning. She mentions that the International...
DATE: April 1st, 2010
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In recent years, novel paradigms of computing have emerged, which enable computational power to be embedded in artefacts and environments in novel ways. These developments may create new possibilities for...
DATE: April 6th, 2006
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Science museum staff face a constructivist dilemma as they design their public spaces: the exhibits should facilitate science learning, yet they also need to support a diverse visiting public in...
DATE: January 1st, 2004
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The underrepresentation of nonâWhite students and girls in STEM fields is an ongoing problem that is well documented. In Kâ12 science education, girls, and especially nonâWhite girls, often do not...
DATE: January 1st, 2013
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As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative research, approaches and resources for use in a variety...
DATES: July 1st, 2017 - June 30th, 2020
