Engineering design in the elementary science classroom: supporting student discourse during an engineering design challenge

McFadden, Justin; Roehrig, Gillian H.

doi:10.1007/s10798-018-9444-5

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“…Specifically, with the recent introduction of engineering into school education, there are a fast growing set of programs and studies that document how engineering design can help engage students and facilitate their learning of STEM content (e.g., Engineering is Elementary (EiE). 2011; English and King 2015; Kelley and Sung 2017; Kelly and Cunningham 2019;McFadden and Roehrig 2019;Schnittka 2012;Strimel et al 2018) and thinking development (e.g., Lubinski 2010; Uttal and Cohen 2012). For example, Kelley and Sung (2017) investigated how the use of engineering design helped grade 5 students to learn science.…”

Section: Students' Learning Through (Engineering) Design In Stem Educmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Schoenfeld

diSessa

et al. 2019

Journal for STEM Educ Res

167

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Design and design thinking are vital to creativity and innovation, and have become increasingly important in the current movement of developing and implementing integrated STEM education. In this editorial, we build on existing research on design and design thinking, and discuss how students' learning and design thinking can be developed through design activities in not only engineering and technology, but also other disciplines as well as integrated STEM education.

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Section: Students' Learning Through (Engineering) Design In Stem Educmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Schoenfeld

diSessa

et al. 2019

Journal for STEM Educ Res

167

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“…At the elementary level, numerous resources now exist for teaching stand-alone engineering units (e.g., Cunningham, 2009;Dalvi, Wendell, & Johnson, 2016;Smithsonian Science Education Center, 2018) as well as integrated science and engineering curricula (e.g., Delta Education, 2018;Eichinger, Doherty, Lehman, & Merwade, 2013;Ryan, Gale, & Usselman, 2017). Recent research literature provides windows into elementary students' engineering design practices (McCormick & Hammer, 2016;McFadden & Roehrig, 2018;Watkins, Spencer, & Hammer, 2014), navigation of social dynamics (Jordan & McDaniel, 2014), and science reasoning for design problem solving (King & English, 2016).…”

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Epistemological framing and novice elementary teachers' approaches to learning and teaching engineering design

2019

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As engineering learning experiences increasingly begin in elementary school, elementary teacher preparation programs are an important site for the study of teacher development in engineering education. In this article, we argue that the stances that novice teachers adopt toward engineering learning and knowledge are consequential for the opportunities they create for students. We present a comparative case study examining the epistemological framing dynamics of two novice urban teachers, Ana and Ben, as they learned and taught engineering design during a four‐week institute for new elementary teachers. Although the two teachers had very similar teacher preparation backgrounds, they interpreted the purposes of engineering design learning and teaching in meaningfully different ways. During her own engineering sessions, Ana took up the goal not only of meeting the needs of the client but also of making scientific sense of artifacts that might meet those needs. When facilitating students' engineering, she prioritized their building knowledge collaboratively about how things work. By contrast, when Ben worked on his own engineering, he took up the goal of delivering a product. When teaching engineering to students, he offered them constrained prototyping tasks to serve as hands‐on contexts for reviewing scientific explanations. These findings call for teacher educators to support teachers' framing of engineering design as a knowledge building enterprise through explicit conversations about epistemology, apprenticeship in sense‐making strategies, and tasks intentionally designed to encourage reasoning about design artifacts.

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“…as these professional studies impart a very specific skill set. Design thinking is identified as a vital shaping ability and learning tool (McFadden & Roehrig, 2019;Wrigley & Straker, 2017). Not only this, it also aids in selection of efficient framework for school education along with proper integration of STEM education (T. R. Kelley & Knowles, 2016).…”

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“…Now with the introduction of engineering subjects and courses in school curriculum enabled educational experts and researchers to have deep insight regarding effects of engineering in shaping design thinking of students. These engineering subjects can captivate students and further help them in learning and design thinking in STEM education (English & King, 2015;Kelly & Cunningham, 2019;McFadden & Roehrig, 2019). Kelly and Sung (2017) explained and investigated how are engineering subjects helping grade 5 students in learning science.…”

Section: Role Of Engineering For Design Thinking In Stem Educationmentioning

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Design Thinking in STEM Education: A Review

Alashwal¹

2020

IRHE

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Design thinking plays an important role in grooming creative and innovative ideas. Design and design thinking are attributed as vital traits in STEM education. Design ability is important in shaping students’ mindsets for future challenges and advancements in technology. STEM education will strengthen learning and will help to foster creativity, critical thinking, design thinking ability, problem solving and innovative skills. In this research, we try to focus on different factors and theories regarding design thinking and role of STEM education in inducing design thinking and innovative ideas. Design is not confined to just few academic and professional subjects. Design thinking ability helps in about each and every discipline of life. In this review, different research studies and their findings regarding importance of design thinking in STEM education have been explained.

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Engineering design in the elementary science classroom: supporting student discourse during an engineering design challenge

Cited by 47 publications

References 60 publications

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

Epistemological framing and novice elementary teachers' approaches to learning and teaching engineering design

Design Thinking in STEM Education: A Review

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