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resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This NAEA presentation was an active workshop, guiding participants to create a stop motion animation in the context of our STEAM practices framework.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Laura Conner Perrin Teal Sullivan Blakely Tsurusaki Carrie Tzou Mareca Guthrie
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
Materials play an important role in learning. Humans actors use materials in particular ways depending on the context and materials also can shape how human actors use materials. This study explores the dialogical relationship between the participants and materials in suminagashi, a Japanese paper marbling activity. We found that materials that are traditionally thought of as art materials, such as paintbrushes, are used to support practices often considered science practices, such as experimentation.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Blakely Tsurusaki Laura Conner Carrie Tzou
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The integration of Art with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEAM) has been growing in popularity, however, there are a variety of conceptualizations of what it looks like. This study explores images of STEAM by examining activities created by informal educators. We found that STEAM activities were conceptualized as using one discipline in the service of another, intertwined, or parallel. This provides concrete images of what STEAM can look like in educational settings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Blakely Tsurusaki Laura Conner Carrie Tzou Perrin Teal Sullivan Mareca Guthrie Priya Pugh
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The ChemAttitudes project recieved supplemental funding to create materials for train-the-trainer workshops in order to inoculate the chemistry outreach community with members who have the knowledge and resources to train others on strategies for stimulating interest, sense of relevance, and feelings of self-efficacy that were tested in the earlier work of the project. The project team recruited participants from minority serving professional organizations as a strategy for broadening participation. Can it work? Did it work? This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Larry Bell Terri Chambers Elizabeth Kollmann David Sittenfeld Rae Ostman Mary Kirchoff
resource research Public Programs
In collaboration with the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) and Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), and with support from the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Learning Innovation will virtually bring together 4-5 dozen diverse (expertise and role, background, demographics, geography) thoughtful STEM learning professionals to collaboratively re-imagine the future of the science museum community, in particular the particularly vulnerable small to medium size science museum sector. Participants will be asked to think
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TEAM MEMBERS: John H Falk Judith Koke Chloe Poston Eldon Vita
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. The project is building a nationwide online coaching/mentoring program for out of school educators in rural settings.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Perrin Chick Aimee Moody
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. The project scales up an award-winning coaching model: Informal educators come together in small groups to share videos of their own interactions with youth A coach helps them share feedback based on their use of key skills (e.g. how to ask youth purposeful questions).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Sue Allen Jessica Donner
resource research Public Programs
Access & opportunity in STEM remain limited for youth from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the US & UK. We present findings grounded in Participatory Ethnographies into STEM pathways, highlighting how youth participate in ISL across time and settings in equitable and transformative ways, and practices that ISL practitioners engage in towards supporting pathway authoring. We take a pathways lens to highlight the multiple directions one may take through a particular ecology towards a wide range of outcomes beyond the STEM career, such as STEM agency and identities. Our study
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TEAM MEMBERS: Angela Calabrese Barton Louise Archer emily dawson Lynn Dierking Day Greenberg Sperla Godec Won Jung Kim Sinead Brien ReAnna Roby Uma Patel Ada Mau
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
This whitepaper introduces the Strategic Outcomes Framework, a taxonomy of outcome types within eight outcome categories (interest, attitude, knowledge, STEM skills, 21st century skills and social emotional evelopment, behavior, STEM capital, and career path). It summarizes proceedings of the NSF-funded Strategic Outcome Progressions Conference: Exploring a Framework for Measuring Informal Education Outcomes and Institutional Impact (award # 2039209) and changes made to the framework as a result. Among these changes are the necessity of nesting the framework within what we have come to call
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resource research Public Programs
Across literature on STEM practice and STEM education, definitions of "imagination" vary in a number of ways. The visual tool below presents a way to organize the characteristics of these definitions along three dimensions: essence, ways of thinking, and context. Using this framework, you can build definitions of imagination relevant to your work.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Becki Kipling Christine Reich Sarah May Emmett Fung Sonya Harvey-Justiniano
resource research Public Programs
This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting. This project employs youth (ages 16-21) from frontline communities to work in paid positions as purveyors of climate science, develop communication and leadership skills, and engage in timely conversations with members of the public about climate change impacts in their own communities. The youth work in small groups to develop an educational tool based in personal narrative and current climate science as a way to raise public understanding and awareness about local climate impacts. They also act as advisors and colleagues in
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TEAM MEMBERS: Rebecca Riley Imme Huttmann
resource research Media and Technology
The Polar Literacy (PL) project explores the development and implementation of Out of School Time (OST) learning opportunities focused on polar literacy concepts and authentic data with middle school aged youth. This poster was presented at the 2021 NSF AISL Awardee Meeting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Janice McDonnell Jason Cervenec