Invention Education: Preparing The Next Generation of Innovators

Couch, Stephanie; Skukauskaitė, Audra; Green, Judith L.

doi:10.21300/20.3.2019.161

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“…Our study contributes to the growing body of literature which calls for increasing access and opportunities for diverse students to participate in invention education. Researchers in the field have called for embedding invention education within the school day to increase access to invention and increase the number of diverse patent holders in the U.S. (Zhang et al, 2019;Couch et al, 2019a). By embedding invention education into the school day, policymakers may democratize access to invention education experiences, which are typically limited to after-school extracurricular activities, such as MESA and the InvenTeam™ and thus may not be accessible to all students.…”

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“…Multiple studies have been published on the LMIT Program's InvenTeams™ work (Couch et al, 2018(Couch et al, , 2019a(Couch et al, ,b, 2020, but so far none have focused directly on the experiences of high school aged Latina inventors who have participated in invention education in the United States. Learning about the life experiences of young inventors from marginalized groups, such as Latinas, can provide insight into the contextual elements of their lives (Saenz and Skukauskaite, 2022) and can highlight distinctive perspectives diverse students bring to the growing field of invention education.…”

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Becoming an inventor: a young Latina’s narrative

Sáenz,

Skukauskaitė,

Sullivan

2024

Front. Educ.

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Latinas, along with many other minoritized groups, are underrepresented as inventors in the United States. Despite accounting for over 9% of the population, <1% of U.S. patent holders are Latina. In an effort to increase diversity among inventors and patent holders, a number of K-12 programs have been created to provide opportunities for students to participate in the iterative and recursive processes of inventing. One example is the emerging field of invention education. Invention education is an educational approach which teaches students how to identify and solve problems within their communities. Little is known about the experiences of Latina students who have participated in invention education and have begun developing identities as inventors. Through narrative methodology, we analyzed how the life experiences of one Latina student contributed to her identity development as an inventor. Four themes were developed through the analysis of the Latina student’s narrative. The first was the early and consistent support of her family members. The second theme was the student’s understanding of the importance of Latinx representation in STEM. The student’s participation in extracurricular STEM activities was the third theme that contributed to the development of her identity as an inventor. The final theme was her continued involvement in engineering at the university level. While early, consistent, and continued identity work in extracurricular invention and STEM activities contributed to the development of an inventor’s identity, literature has shown that opportunities such as these are not available to all students, especially those who have been historically underrepresented as inventors. We argue for making access to invention education more equitable by embedding it within the school day.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Becoming an inventor: a young Latina’s narrative

Sáenz,

Skukauskaitė,

Sullivan

2024

Front. Educ.

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“…Finally, youth from populations traditionally underserved by or underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning and IvE (especially LatinX and Indigenous) are overrepresented in rural Oregon counties. At the same time, rural schools and communities offer unique opportunities for innovations that bridge engaging out-of-school activities with school learning goals in ways that help learners develop an interest in academic achievement and long-term career success (Wai et al, 2010;Couch et al, 2019).…”

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iINVENT pathways and practices: prizing the process over the product

Rowe,

Talamantes,

Well

et al. 2024

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Rural communities need skilled innovators who engage as community members, support economic opportunities, and develop novel ways to solve local problems. Through innovation, Invention Education (IvE) is one way to promote the creativity and problem-solving needed to restore economic vitality to regions of the rural US. IvE pathways support a skilled workforce that communities can draw upon to solve complex problems. Introductory IvE experiences can begin to bolster rural recovery and open prime grounds for innovative solutions. The Office of Precollege Programs at Oregon State University established the iINVENT Program for upper elementary, middle, and high school learners to engage in IvE and act as inventors. In this study, we describe the iINVENT pathways resulting from 8 years of curriculum design and iteration guided by engaged scholarship practices and robust evaluation. Program data from 2019–2023 was collected via learner, educator, community partner, and parent surveys, as well as through observations conducted by program staff and partner instructors. Results from qualitative content and thematic analysis demonstrate the value of introducing learners to IvE and how iINVENT practices support invention educators in impacting youth learners. The findings demonstrate essential practices, successes, and challenges that have shaped the iINVENT pathways and IvE curriculum delivered. Based on these findings and current discourse unfolding throughout the IvE professional community, the authors suggest that a process-oriented invention framework focused on inventiveness and the ways learners can act as inventors is pivotal to broaden access and participation in IvE, providing learners with a more applicable and relatable learning experience to cultivate inventiveness mindsets and skills transferable to all parts of life.

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“…It is concluded that the invention of problems is a pedagogical tool that progressively improves problemsolving, increasing the results in learning achievements in mathematics, reducing anxiety and errors that appear when it is solved, and increasing motivation and skills to create strategies. útiles (Couch et al, 2019); el éxito que se tengan para resolver problemas está estrechamente relacionado con el éxito que se tenga para formular problemas (Mallart-Solaz, 2018).…”

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La invención como herramienta pedagógica para mejorar la resolución de problemas matemáticos

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Chinga²,

López³

et al. 2022

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El objetivo de la investigación fue analizar información referida a la invención de problemas como un instrumento valioso para progresar en la resolución de problemas matemáticos. La metodología utilizada para elaborar el artículo fue un enfoque cualitativo de análisis documental, donde se ejecutó una revisión sistemática de literatura científica indexadas en diversas revistas, las mismas que fueron seleccionadas teniendo en cuenta la relevancia, el rigor y la credibilidad, por medio de una evaluación de calidad. En la revisión se encontró que la invención de problemas contribuye de manera significativa a mejorar las competencias matemáticas de estudiantes y docentes, aportando múltiples beneficios para el aprendizaje en matemática. Se concluye que la invención de problemas es una herramienta pedagógica que mejora progresivamente la resolución de problemas, incrementando los resultados en los logros de aprendizajes en matemática, disminuyendo la ansiedad y errores que aparecen cuando se resuelve e incrementando la motivación y las habilidades para crear estrategias resolutivas.

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Invention Education: Preparing The Next Generation of Innovators

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Becoming an inventor: a young Latina’s narrative

Becoming an inventor: a young Latina’s narrative

iINVENT pathways and practices: prizing the process over the product

La invención como herramienta pedagógica para mejorar la resolución de problemas matemáticos

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