image from a web-based version of the original writing exercise described in [16].Figure 2: An image of the main problem page from the writing application. The text field where studentsenter their responses has been greatly reduced from the default size to facilitate presentation of the entirepage in the figure.Several notable changes have been made in transforming the writing exercise from how it isdescribed in [16] to its web-based counterpart. In the original writing exercise, after reflecting andreporting on their perceived understanding of the question and ability to answer it, students werepresented with the following question: “How will you start the problem and what prior knowledgedo you have to answer the question?” The initial self
teachers a chance to get to know eachother and to experience fun activities together outside the work requirements. Planned socialactivities also gave teachers an opportunity to process and make meaning of their work withothers outside of their lab groups.The teacher research projects selected for our program are listed in Table 1 below. The list ofinteresting projects reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the topic of computational thinking,while leveraging the diverse pool of faculty expertise at the university. After completing the 6-week (approximately 180 hours) summer research program, each teacher’s goal was to have asolid appreciation for the relevance of computational thinking practices as well as engineeringdesign principles connected
; Faust 1994) by examiningimportant relationships reflected in the strength, direction, and complexity (or number) of tiesembedded in a network. The strength of such an approach is that it enables an analysis of socialphenomena beyond the abstract social structures (e.g. social, economic, political) traditionallystudied by researchers in the social and behavioral sciences (Wellman 1999).Ego-centered (or personal) networks make the individual the focus of attention where egodescribes people (alters) close to him or her (Boissevain 1974; Wellman & Berkowitz 1988).According to Wellman (1999), such investigations “enable researchers to study community ties,whoever with, wherever located, and however structured…and avoid the trap of looking
in this material are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Thework was initiated through a STEM Collaborative grant awarded by the Leona M. and Harry B.Helmsley Charitable Trust. Development of the freshman engineering course was also supportedby the Boeing Company and by a STEM grant from the Office of Naval Research (ContractNumber N00014-15-1-2434). The authors are also grateful for support from the Provost’s Officefor the FYrE program, and to Professor Monika Kress of the Department of Physics andAstronomy at San José State University, who provided insight on her pre-physics coursedevelopment. Finally, the contributions of the entire FYrE faculty and staff team, notably DebbieWon
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Workshop. Parallel tracks continuedthroughout the day. Members of the Program Committee who served as the Track Chairs alsodesignated two breakout sessions from each track so that elements of the White Paper receivedsufficient time to be emphasized. The day ended with a tour of new active learning spaceinfrastructures and facilities that could support various aspects of DMTL. Tuesday’s sessionsbegan with a keynote address followed by a track debrief by each track chair to the entireworkshop. The workshop breakout sessions commenced after a Reflection Debrief havingemphasis on trends and progress made and areas to focus the remaining time to maximize theparticipants work together. After parallel tracks concluded, there was the formation of