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Hladik, Stephanie; Sengupta, Pratim; Shanahan, Marie-Claire – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
In this paper, we emphasize the importance of looking beyond technology itself and including interactional and experiential elements in our research gaze in informal computing education in science museums. We argue that, in these contexts, facilitation can be understood as "design work" that is both complex and challenging. We identify…
Descriptors: Museums, Facilitators (Individuals), Science Teaching Centers, Informal Education
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Hébert, Cristyne; Jenson, Jennifer – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
Making and maker spaces have attracted increasing attention as potential sites for supporting K-12 student learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and as a means of competency development for computational and design thinking as well as technological literacy. While interest in making and maker spaces is high, little…
Descriptors: Textiles Instruction, Entrepreneurship, Learning Processes, STEM Education
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Sykes, Edward R. – Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning, 2010
The Java Intelligent Tutoring System (JITS) research project explored the power of a new approach to supporting beginner Java programming students. Using Java's grammar as the core of its production rule base, JITS is embedded with extra functionality to detect, predict and correct lexicographical errors in students' code. This additional…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Design, Programming