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Lowrie, Tom; Logan, Tracy – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
The Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) pilot was a year-long investigation involving 300 educators and 4 500 four-year old children in one hundred learning centres across Australia. This paper reports on a pedagogical and design framework that was constructed to promote children's STEM engagement across digital and non-digital learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement
Logan, Tracy; Larkin, Kevin – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
The Experience, Represent, Apply (ERA) heuristic is an innovation of the Early Learning STEM Australia (ELSA) project. It provided educators with an approach that embeds digital technologies in play-based learning in such a way that the focus of the learning remains on the child and not on the device. This paper reports on the experiences of early…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Pilot Projects, STEM Education, Early Childhood Education
Kafai, Yasmin B., Ed.; Heeter, Carrie, Ed.; Denner, Jill, Ed.; Sun, Jennifer Y., Ed. – MIT Press (BK), 2008
Ten years after the groundbreaking "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat" highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors in "World of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Play, Topography
Kupari, Pekka, Ed.; Haapasalo, Lenni, Ed. – 1993
This yearbook is the seventh for the Mathematics Education Research in Finland series and contains ten articles presented at the decennial jubilee colloquium. The first three articles discuss Constructivism both in general and with regard to mathematics education. Analysis is directed to the origins of constructivism, to the learning of…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Constructivism (Learning), Deduction, Difficulty Level