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Luecha Ladachart; Visit Radchanet; Wannakorn Phornprasert; Wilawan Phothong – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024
Design-based learning (DBL), a pedagogical approach to integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, has been internationally promoted in K-12 curricula. Despite DBL's variations, research has indicated it can facilitate students' content learning. However, it is less clear whether DBL can foster students' STEM…
Descriptors: Design, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods
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Bielik, Tom; Fonio, Ehud; Feinerman, Ofer; Duncan, Ravit Golan; Levy, Sharona T. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2021
Complex systems are made up of many entities, whose interactions emerge into distinct collective patterns. Computational modeling platforms can provide a powerful means to investigate emergent phenomena in complex systems. Some research has been carried out in recent years about promoting students' modeling practices, specifically using…
Descriptors: Computation, Models, Design, Middle School Students
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Wilawan Phothong; Jiraporn Chaimongkol; Luecha Ladachart – Journal of Technology Education, 2023
This study examines the influence of design-based learning on 25 eighth-grade students' design-thinking mindsets, that is, on the mental outlook that they adopt habitually when they engage in design thinking. It also compares changes in design-thinking mindsets across individuals of different genders and different levels of experience in design.…
Descriptors: Design, Concept Formation, Learning Processes, Thinking Skills
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Wing-Leung Yeung; Oi-Lam Ng – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
This paper reports a design and implementation of a STEM enrichment programme infused with affective elements designed for Hong Kong students. Specifically, it features a design-thinking approach to develop solutions to a self-selected problem addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Around 30 upper primary school (grades 5 to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Enrichment Activities, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
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Ladachart, Luecha; Radchanet, Visit; Phothong, Wilawan – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2022
Design-based learning has been recognized by educational scholars as the key approach to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at K-12 levels. However, it is unclear whether, and which dimensions of, design thinking mindsets support the conceptual learning of science. This quasi-experimental study aims to explore 37…
Descriptors: Design, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Learning Processes
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Games, Ivan Alex – Learning, Media and Technology, 2010
This article presents the results of a three-year study of "Gamestar Mechanic" (www.gamestarmechanic.com), a flash-based multiplayer online role-playing game developed for the MacArthur Foundation's digital media learning initiative by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Gamelab in New York. The game's objective is to help children…
Descriptors: Design, Role Playing, Discourse Analysis, Thinking Skills