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STEM education is a human right. Yet, we often teach STEM assuming that even novice students understand and are fluent in STEM language. The hidden code of STEM language excludes many students from membership in the "STEM club." In this session, you will engage in a practice STEM lesson, and experience ways that STEM language can be supported in an inclusive classroom. Then, you will learn how to de-code the STEM language required to support success for all students. Finally, you will be invited to join a 3-day summer "More Inclusive Support for STEM Language" (MISSL) Workshop hosted by Pacific University (Oregon). MISSL will be accessible in live, in-person participants, live, remotely via Zoom, and asynchronous formats.
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Designing Morphing Artifacts for Creative STEM Explorations
material science and digital fabrication to create shape-changing and dynamic interfaces. In this workshop, participants will investigate ways in whichMMtools can effectively support building STEM learning toolkits for novice learners from diverse backgrounds. Participants will engage in hands-on activities designing and simulating water-triggered morphing artifacts using a software design tool and fabricating them with low-cost materials. This workshop aims to collectively explore creative opportunities and barriers o introducing emerging STEM concepts and skills to novice learners. We hope to ideate frameworks for designing educational toolkits which leverage the accessible nature of morphing beads, democratizing a process that would typically require advanced material synthesis and specialized lab settings. Designers, educators, learning scientists, and researchers are welcome to join us in brainstorming ways to develop toolkits to support creative exploration in education with MM.
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- Award ID(s):
- 2017008
- PAR ID:
- 10348568
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Creativity and Cognition
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 476 to 480
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3527927.3531203
