Toying with technology in elementary education

Genalo, Lawrence; Wright, C.; Wright, Kim Boddie

doi:10.1109/fie.1998.738696

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“…In a mobile robotics program utilizing Legos and "Not Quite C" programming, an engineering course was created which provides technological literacy, hands-on learning activities, and field experiences for future teachers. "Toying With Technology 1,2 ," as this program is titled, brings these hands-on activities to K-12 (primarily targeted at upper elementary students) students around the state. It provides an engineering experience for children and practice teaching experiences in a technologically oriented subject for college students.…”

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Creating A K 12 Engineering Educational Outreach Center

Genalo¹,

Bruning²,

Adams³

2000 Annual Conference Proceedings

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Section: Engineering Programs In Deliverymentioning

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Creating A K 12 Engineering Educational Outreach Center

Genalo¹,

Bruning²,

Adams³

2000 Annual Conference Proceedings

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“…The Toying With Technology SM Program at Iowa State University has been reported on many times in the literature [2][3][4][5][6][7] . This program includes an undergraduate and a graduate engineering class for education majors as well as a large K-12 outreach effort.…”

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Home Schoolers In An Engineering/Education K12 Outreach Program

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Gilchrist

2006 Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…Engineering faculty at Iowa State University have worked collaboratively with teacher education faculty since 1996 to offer an undergraduate course entitled Toying with Technology to elementary and secondary education majors 1,2 . The development of this technology literacy course provided students with an appreciation for the technological innovations that surround them.…”

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An Engineering Linkage To K 12 Teachers

Genalo¹,

Golder²,

Gallagher³

2001 Annual Conference Proceedings

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Engineering faculty at Iowa State University have worked collaboratively with teacher education faculty since 1996 to offer an undergraduate course entitled Toying with Technology to elementary and secondary education majors1, 2. The development of this technology literacy course provided students with an appreciation for the technological innovations that surround them. Studies have shown that students form many of their overall career and educational attitudes as early as elementary school. Elementary (and even secondary) schoolteachers who have an appreciation for technology will likely convey that appreciation to their students. This will, in turn, broaden the horizons of these students regarding the opportunities they may have regarding careers in scientific and engineering disciplines. Engineering faculty believe the Toying with Technology course is a component of the long-term recruitment of K-12 students, particularly minorities and women, into technology-based fields3, 4, 5. This course is designed to explain the principles behind many of the technological innovations in wide use today via a collection of hands-on laboratory experiences based upon simple systems constructed out of LEGOs and controlled by small computers. These laboratory experiences are designed to lead students, literally by their hands-on experimentation, through the use of technology in support of many everyday activities. The lab experiences are simple enough to isolate and illuminate the underlying basic principles and yet complex enough to represent real-world examples. Students typically design and construct simple models of real-world systems, including an elevator and its controller, a garage door and its opener, a computercontrolled car, and a house security system. A significant portion of this course is the many field experiences involving K-12 students being facilitated in mobile robotics exercises by the pre-service teachers. The literature in recent years shows numerous papers on mobile robotics1, 2, 6-8, many using LEGOs. There also are many references to engineering outreach efforts3-5, 8-12. During the summer of 2000 a graduate course incorporating these mobile robotics and scanning electron microscope exercises was offered to in-service teachers and teacher education graduate students. Several of the in-service teachers who took this course are now partnered with the current undergraduate students to provide an ongoing relationship among the practicing teacher, the pre-service teachers, the K-12 students, and the engineering faculty. In effect, the practicing teacher's classroom becomes the laboratory for the Toying With Technology course.

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Toying with technology in elementary education

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Creating A K 12 Engineering Educational Outreach Center

Creating A K 12 Engineering Educational Outreach Center

Home Schoolers In An Engineering/Education K12 Outreach Program

An Engineering Linkage To K 12 Teachers

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