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This special session will introduce participants to our method for supporting integrative learning about key science and math concepts via engineering design challenges. Engineering Teaching Kit (ETKs) are self-contained STEM education standards-based units grounded in the constructivist philosophy of education and the principles of guided inquiry and active learning. An ETK introduces P-12 students...
The primary goal of this special session is to engage participants in a dialogue regarding two skills critical to the personal and professional development of engineers, creativity and curiosity, and discuss and practice pedagogies for nurturing them in students through STEAM (STEM + art) activities. The emerging STEAM approach emphasizes a hands-on, project-based, interdisciplinary approach to the...
As a design-based profession, advances in engineering rely, in part, on the creativity of its practitioners. Therefore, it is important to explore means by which creativity, along with other critical skills, can be nurtured. As part of our research on the teachable nature of creativity, we are investigating the relationship between a person's belief that intelligence and talent are either fixed or...
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