Integration of Computing with Electronic Textiles to Improve Teaching and Learning of Electronics in Secondary Science

该项目将通过学生电子纺织品（e-textiles）项目，将计算思维和电子概念融入初高中课堂。项目内容包括电学、导电材料、编程和计算思维。该项目建立在已经开展的重要工作的基础上，在这些工作中，电子纺织品已经在课堂外使用，并开始向课堂使用过渡。主要的实施活动将是为教师提供有关计算思维和电子纺织品的专业发展。该项目包括扩大教师人数。它还包括大学所在地区的农村学校。研究和发展计划包括教育学院和计算机科学与工程学院之间的合作。作为一个STEM+C项目，它很好地将计算思维融入了科学课堂的背景下，并提供了一个可以应用于其他主题的教学模式。STEM+计算伙伴关系（STEM+C）计划旨在通过跨一个或多个领域的应用研究和开发，推进STEM教学中计算的多学科整合；STEM与计算机科学的整合；扩大对计算机科学的参与。在教学法、职前和在职教师专业发展等关键领域进行了投资。该项目的目标是创建和部署电子纺织品项目，以便在初中和高中科学课堂上使用电子概念。该计划还包括为教师设计有关计算思维概念和电子纺织品项目的专业发展。混合方法研究设计将收集教师关于课堂实施的定性文物和日记反思，并以观察仪器和调查结果的形式收集定量数据。学生层面的研究问题侧重于学生的参与、计算兴趣、自我概念感和电学概念的学习收获。教师层面的问题考察教师在科学课上实施电子纺织品项目的教学实践。这些问题使用了实验组和对照组。数据收集包括学生兴趣和自我概念调查以及学生知识评估。教师层面的问题通过改革后的教学观察协议、计算思维框架、教师反思、课堂实施的人工制品和半结构化访谈来考察教学实践。

This project will integrate computational thinking and electronics concepts in middle and high school classrooms using electronic textiles (e-textiles) projects for students. The content of the projects includes electricity, conductive materials, programming and computational thinking. This project builds on significant work already underway in which e-textiles have been used in out-of-class situations and are beginning the transition to classroom use. The primary implementation activity will be providing professional development to teachers about computational thinking and e-textiles. The project includes scaling up to a large number of teachers. It also includes rural schools in the region of the university. The research and development plan includes collaboration between education faculty and computer science and engineering faculty. As a STEM+C project it nicely integrates computational thinking within the context of science classrooms and presents a model for instruction that could apply to other topics. The STEM+Computing Partnership (STEM+C) program seeks to advance multidisciplinary integration of computing in STEM teaching and learning through applied research and development across one or more domains; integration of STEM in computer science; and broadening participation in computer science. Investments are made in critical areas of pedagogy, pre-service and in-service teacher professional development.The goal of the project is to create and deploy e-textile projects for classroom use in middle and high school science classrooms for electronics concepts. The plan also includes designing professional development for teachers about the computational thinking concepts and the e-textiles projects. The mixed methods research design will collect qualitative artifacts and journal reflections from teachers regarding classroom implementation and quantitative data in the form of observation instruments and survey results. The student-level research questions focus on students' engagement, computing interest, sense of self-concept, and learning gains in electricity concepts. The teacher-level questions examine instructional practices teachers use in implementation of e-textiles projects in science classes. These questions employ both treatment and comparison groups. Data collection includes surveys of students' interest and self-concept as well as students' knowledge assessments. The teacher-level question examines instructional practices using classroom observations with the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol, computational thinking frameworks, teacher reflections, artifacts from classroom implementation, and semi-structured interviews.