The increased push to expand computing into K-12 schools in the United States requires us to train thousand s of new teachers to not only understand computing ideas, but also how to teach their students how to think computationally. However, there are few teacher education programs that focus on developing preservice teachers’ understanding of computational…
My colleague Mike DeSchryver and I wrote a article arguing for the use of new literacies and computational thinking to promote creative thinking. We discuss the design decisions we make to integrate computational thinking through new literacies and computational thinking for inservice teachers enrolled in our Masters in Educational Technology (MAET) program at Michigan…
Yadav, A., Vinh, M., Shaver, G., Meckl, P., & Rose, S. (2014). Case-based Instruction: Improving students’ conceptual understanding through cases in a mechanical engineering course. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 51 (5), 659-677, doi: 10.1002/tea.21149 Recently, there has been a push within engineering curricula to adopt more learner-centered pedagogies, such as case-based…
Farahmand, F., Yadav, A., & Spafford, E. H. (2013) Characterizing risks in virtual worlds: A learning technology Application. Journal of Computing in Higher Education, doi: 10.1007/s12528-013-9067-5 Virtual worlds present tremendous advantages to cyberlearning. For example, in virtual worlds users can socialize with others, build objects and share them, customize parts…