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Description:: The rise in children’s media use (Rideout & Robb, 2020) and the prioritization of STEM learning (Fayer et al., 2017) has led to the development of new STEM-related apps, TV shows, and other media for young children. One topic in this area gaining popularity is computational thinking (CT). Researchers refer...
Keyword:: Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Computational Thinking, Early Childhood, Educational Television, and STEM
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Science education, and Communication
Creator:: Lemley, Breniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_1011152 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16709

Description:: Facts are not enough! The more recent wave of science communication practices have been advocating for the death of the deficit model of science communication. This model notes that by possessing sufficient information, individuals will change their attitude and behavior to align with scientific facts. However, recent research has shown...
Keyword:: Narrative Persuasion, Trust, Curiosity, Pop Culture, Science Communication, and Public Engagement
Subject:: Climate change, Science education, and Communication
Creator:: Maktoufi, Reyhaneh
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_860101 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15844

Description:: This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students’ epistemic agency as they do science in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such learning...
Keyword:: Restructurations, Agent-based models, Constructionism, Computational Thinking, and Scientific inquiry
Subject:: Education, Educational technology, and Science education
Creator:: Dabholkar, Sugat
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15865 and etdadmin_upload_863334

Description:: This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the dance makerspace, a learning environment designed to support STEM engagement through making and embodied experience for a group of African American youth dancers. It looks at how participants in a 4-week summer camp program at an urban creative arts center-turned-makerspace, constructed embodied...
Keyword:: STEAM, Makerspace, STEM, Embodiment, Embodied Cognition, and Dance
Subject:: Dance and Science education
Creator:: Champion, Dionne Nicole
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_619548 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14418

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