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Niina Niinimäki; Kati Sormunen; Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen; Sini Davies; Kaiju Kangas – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Implementing maker education in schools is on the rise, fuelled by its potential to move formal education towards a creative, technology-driven 21st century learning culture. In maker education, collaborative learning takes place through and around various digital and traditional technologies, which provide the means for students'…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning, Technological Literacy, Student Projects
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Jeanna de Haan-Topolscak; Merle Ebskamp; Pauline Vos-de Tombe – Design and Technology Education, 2024
This pilot study investigates the way that young students and teachers of a Dutch Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) secondary school subject Research and Design (R&D) reason about the concept of 'model'. The core of the Dutch Technasium secondary school course Research and Design curriculum (R&D is in Dutch called…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
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Davy Tsz Kit Ng; Jiahong Su; Samuel Kai Wah Chu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) education has gained popularity, and educators are developing activities to enhance students' AI literacy and promote collaboration in problem-solving. While current approaches using simulations and games can improve students' AI knowledge, they may not adequately prepare them for higher-level cognitive tasks. Only a…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technological Literacy, Secondary School Students, Case Studies
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Andrew J. Hughes; Mike Stitzer – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2022
The intention of this article is to provide Technology and Engineering Educators (T&EEs) with a more thorough understanding of the product realization process (PRP) being implemented during machine design. Machines can be defined as the combination of simple machines and mechanisms for the purpose of doing work (Hughes & Merrill, 2021b).…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Engineering Education, Equipment, Design
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Chien, Yu-Hung; Liu, Chia-Yu; Chan, Shaio-Chung; Chang, Yu-Shan – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
There is a worldwide trend to include engineering design in high school curricula as a bridge course to higher-level STEM education and to increase high school students' interest in STEM fields. This study used a battlebot design curriculum to compare engineering design learning between high school and college first-year students and then proposed…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Design, High School Students, College Freshmen
Natalie Sew; Adrianne Billingham Bock; Danielle Allen – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning. This approach offers students the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and key civic dispositions needed to engage in their communities and develop their…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Civics, Curriculum Design, Grade 8
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Anna Trifonova; Mariela Destéfano; Mario Barajas – Digital Education Review, 2024
This article proposes a comprehensive AI curriculum tailored for young learners aged 11 to 14, emphasizing a humanistic approach. We review other AI curricula proposals for children and young people and underline that they focus primarily on AI's technological benefits and on learning coding and logic. Our curriculum explores human cognition that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Children, Constructivism (Learning)
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Dankovic, Danijel; Marjanovic, Milos; Mitrovic, Nikola; Zivanovic, Emilija; Dankovic, Milan; Prijic, Aneta; Prijic, Zoran – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: Impact assessment of the practice-oriented course for high school students on their later academic achievements, described in the context of long-term efforts to improve electronic engineering studies' quality. The article highlights the importance of outreach and extracurricular activities and cooperation with the IEEE in these…
Descriptors: High School Students, Engineering Education, Active Learning, Student Projects
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David W. Jackson; Helen Zhang; Fahd Abdus-Sabur – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2025
During young adolescence, many youth develop strong identities in relation to science, technology, engineering and mathematics with computing (STEM + C). One way to design for student engagement in STEM + C is to create project-based units that leverage students' interests. We created one such unit, called the "smart greenhouse project".…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Uses in Education, STEM Education, Student Projects
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Chang, Chi-Cheng; Yen, Wan-Hsuan – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Engineering design thinking is at the core of engineering competence. Project-Based learning (PjBL) about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), which is based on engineering design, has brought enormous success in students' gaining and applying knowledge about STEM subjects. However, there are few studies on the perceived…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Engineering Education, Design, Thinking Skills
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Vivi Suwanti; Cholis Sa'dijah; Makbul Muksar – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2024
This study aims to describe the epistemological obstacles of prospective Indonesian secondary mathematics teachers' in designing project-based numeracy tasks (PbNTs). Three case studies focused on qualitative analyses of prospective Indonesian secondary mathematics teachers' PbNTs from responses to a semi-structured interview based on indicators…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Barriers, Active Learning
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Turner, Ken L., Jr.; Hoffman, Adam; Breitfelder, Scott; Wolf, Hayli; Metcalf, Isabella; Jones, Alexandra – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2020
Graphene is a novel material with extraordinary promise in various nano-based applications, including increases in strength, conductivity, filtration, and electrical capacity. Graphene can be synthesized and tested in a wide variety of applications in secondary or undergraduate settings. Allowing students to choose their own application and method…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Design, Engineering Education, Secondary School Students
Michelle Ramzan – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The objective of this dissertation was to explore how the principles of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) can inform the design of a junior high school curriculum to enhance science learning by providing meaningful learning experiences to all students. The transformative paradigm provided a framework used as a lens to emphasize the importance…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Junior High School Students, Science Education, Scientific Literacy
Lippert, Robert J.; Seals, Tjuannia R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Middle school is a transitional period in which many students experience content-specific teachers, travel between classrooms, and explore extracurricular activity options for the first time. Historically, African American middle school students have not fared well in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on standardized…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Middle School Students
Seals, Tjuannia R.; Lippert, Robert J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Middle school is a transitional period in which many students experience content-specific teachers, travel between classrooms, and explore extracurricular activity options for the first time. Historically, African American middle school students have not fared well in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) on standardized…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Interests, STEM Education, Middle School Students
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