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Yishan Xie; Xinhua Zhang – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
STEM education is widely recognized as a powerful means of cultivating well-rounded future talent. However, challenges such as difficulties in observation, declining learning interests, and the lack of teaching resources present obstacles to the implementation of STEM education in China. Virtual Reality (VR), with its immersive, interactive, and…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, STEM Education, Courseware, Active Learning
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Lu, Shih-Yun; Lo, Chih-Cheng; Syu, Jia-Yu – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The main purpose of the living technology curriculum is to cultivate students' interest in learning science and technology, and further to utilize their experience of learning instructions and develop their ability to integrate interdisciplinary knowledge and skills. In recent years, as countries have begun to emphasize the concept of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Projects
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Wei Xu; Jia-Chen Chen; Ye-feng Lou; Hang Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Maker education can enhance learners' creativity. Design thinking can facilitate the innovative resolution of complex problems. The design thinking literature and most maker teaching modes are limited in their promotion of learning and ability development in various dimensions. Learners have stereotypes about some professions; interventions can…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
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Walan, Susanne; Gericke, Niklas – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This case study aimed to investigate teachers' reflections on the transfer of makerspace activities into classrooms. Primary and secondary STEM teachers participated in a Continuous Professional Development programme about makerspaces. Data were collected in the form of written reflections and semi-structured interviews after the teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education, Faculty Development
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Tenhovirta, Satu; Korhonen, Tiina; Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita; Hakkarainen, Kai – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2022
The present investigation examined cross-age peer tutoring in the context of organising a technology-enhanced STEAM project aimed at bringing elements of maker culture to a lower secondary school. We examined how 8th graders tutored 7th graders in programming skills. The participants were peer tutors (n = 15) studying in a technology-oriented…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Grade 8, Grade 7
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Portelance, Dylan J.; Strawhacker, Amanda L.; Bers, Marina Umaschi – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2016
This paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on children and computer programming by focusing on a programming language for children in Kindergarten through second grade. Sixty-two students were exposed to a 6-week curriculum using ScartchJr. They learned foundational programming concepts and applied those concepts to create personally…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Computer Science Education, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
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Karppinen, Seija; Kallunki, Veera; Komulainen, Kauko – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
The paper discusses how a teaching approach, "interdisciplinary design and invention pedagogy," affected primary school student teachers' learning outcomes through the craft design process in pre-service teacher education. This study applies developmental work research (Engeström in J Educ Work 14(1):133-156, 2001; Engeström in…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Handicrafts, Textiles Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Klapwijk, Remke; Van Doorn, Fenne – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2015
Human-centered design is of growing importance for professional designers and in the past two decades a series of techniques for designers to develop understanding of and empathy with a diversity of users has been developed within this field. In the second half of the twentieth century, intended users were involved late in the design process, i.e.…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Design, User Needs (Information), Instructional Design
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Yu, Kuang-Chao; Chen, Mei-Yung – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2011
The POWERTECH contest in Taiwan was established in an attempt to promote inventiveness and technology to elementary school pupils. The POWERTECH contest is designed as a collaborative learning system for project design. Project design is comprised of technical processes, which include the construction of an artifact and improvement of its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Portfolios (Background Materials), Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students
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Bencze, John Lawrence – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2010
Future elementary school teachers often lack self-efficacy for teaching science and technology. They are particularly anxious about encouraging children to carry-out student-directed, open-ended scientific inquiry and/or technological design projects. Moreover, because this often also is the case with practising elementary school teachers, it is…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Constructivism (Learning), Practicums, Methods Courses