Turn the Lights On! Part II: An Online Professional Development Aid for Teaching an Engineering Design-Based Curriculum in 8th Grade (Resource Exchange)
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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4
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40659
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https://peer.asee.org/40659
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149
Paper Authors
Barbara Fagundes
Nrupaja Bhide Purdue University at West Lafayette (PPI)
Tamara Moore Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
Tamara J. Moore, Ph.D., is a Professor of Engineering Education, University Faculty Scholar, and the Executive Director of the INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Moore’s research is centered on the integration of STEM concepts in K-12 and postsecondary classrooms in order to help students make connections among the STEM disciplines and achieve deep understanding. Her work focuses on defining STEM integration and investigating its power for student learning. She has examined different mechanisms of bringing engineering content and standards into the classrooms that led to a framework for quality K-12 engineering education. Dr. Moore’s team has developed several sets of instructional modules for elementary and middle school learners that employ engineering and literacy contexts to integrate STEM and computational thinking content in meaningful and significant ways. In 2012, she received a U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her work with urban youth. In 2016, she received Purdue University’s Faculty Engagement Scholarship Award for working with teachers and students across the United States on teaching and learning engineering.
Maeve Drummond Oakes Purdue University College of Engineering
Maeve Drummond Oakes is the Associate Director of Education for the NSF Engineering Research Center, CISTAR. She has extensive experience in academic program management at Purdue University, successfully leading programs at undergraduate and graduate education in the School of Civil of Engineering. In Biomedical Engineering she led the creation of new experiential activities for students with industry and through study abroad. As the university coordinator for the Purdue EPICS program she was responsible for the development of a consortium of more than 40 universities, globally. At CISTAR she oversees all of the programming for CISTAR's engineering workforce development pillar.
Allison Godwin Purdue University at West Lafayette (COE)
Allison Godwin, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. She is also the Engineering Workforce Development Director for CISTAR, the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources, a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center. Her research focuses on how identity, among other affective factors, influences diverse students to choose engineering and persist in engineering. She also studies how different experiences within the practice and culture of engineering foster or hinder belonging and identity development. Dr. Godwin graduated from Clemson University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering and Science Education. Her research earned her a National Science Foundation CAREER Award focused on characterizing latent diversity, which includes diverse attitudes, mindsets, and approaches to learning to understand engineering students’ identity development.
Abstract
Turn the Lights On! is a project in partnership between Blinded and the blinded that teaches 8th graders about renewable energy resources and sustainability through an engineering design-based STEM integration unit. This unit will be implemented mostly in schools with high enrollment of Black, Latinx, Indigenous youth, and low-income students. The project includes the engineering design-based curriculum (Part I) and online professional development aid for teachers interested in implementing this curriculum (Part II). We created an online professional development (PD) to help teachers incorporate this curriculum through engineering design principles. The asynchronous PD is stored on Nanohub—an online platform—in a course format where teachers enroll for free and progress through the guided content. The course uses a set of didactic videos that describe the unit's content, pedagogy, and activities. Namely, video activities explain to teachers how to perform the experiments and mathematics activities, and video lectures introduce them to the STEM content in the context of the engineering problem. Moreover, the course has other resources available such as a quick start guide for those with more extensive experience in integrated STEM teaching, the curriculum in PDF format, worksheets including answers, a discussion board, and external links that support their learning experience. We will demonstrate this platform and discuss all the online resources during the session.
Fagundes, B., & Bhide, N., & Moore, T., & Drummond Oakes, M., & Godwin, A. (2022, August), Turn the Lights On! Part II: An Online Professional Development Aid for Teaching an Engineering Design-Based Curriculum in 8th Grade (Resource Exchange) Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40659
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