Understanding the conditions informing successful STEM clubs: What does the evidence base tell us?

K Davis, A Fitzgerald, M Power, T Leach… - Studies in Science …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) clubs are gaining
momentum as a means for engaging students in STEM-related activities. Despite this …

[PDF][PDF] Embodied teachable agents: Learning by teaching robots

J Werfel - Intelligent Autonomous Systems, The 13th International …, 2013 - eecs.harvard.edu
Robots have an untapped potential to contribute to education by acting as subordinate
learners for students to teach. The benefits that the act of teaching provides for one's own …

A critical reflection on the challenges of implementing culturally sustaining pedagogy

DA Chen, SM Lord, JA Mejia… - 2021 IEEE Frontiers in …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work-in-progress is a critical reflection on our first offering of an energy course that
reimagines what we teach and how we teach using a lens of culturally sustaining …

Hispanic elementary students' improved perceptions of science and scientists upon participation in an environmental science afterschool club

RL Hite, J White - Applied Environmental Education & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers examined the outcomes of a year-long, after-school environmental club for
Hispanic 4th and 5th grade students. Two instruments, the Student Attitudes toward STEM …

Engaging elementary and middle school students in robotics through hummingbird kit with Snap! visual programming language

A Newley, H Deniz, E Kaya… - Journal of Learning and …, 2016 - dergipark.org.tr
The purpose of this paper is to describe how Hummingbird robotics kit with Snap!
programing language was used to introduce basics of robotics to elementary and middle …

Designing teacher professional development workshops for robotics integration across elementary and secondary school curriculum

H Zhou, TT Yuen, C Popescu… - … on Learning and …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes the design of a professional development workshop on integrating
robotics at the elementary and secondary school curriculum. The workshop was designed to …

Exploring provider perspectives of the STEM club landscape: findings from one Australian state

A Fitzgerald, K Davis, T Leach, N Martin… - … Journal of Science …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT STEM clubs, often located in extracurricular settings, are designed to promote
engagement and enjoyment of STEM-related topics and concepts. Given the current policy …

Neurorobotics workshop for high school students promotes competence and confidence in computational neuroscience

CA Harris, L Guerri, S Mircic, Z Reining… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the brain is a fascinating challenge, captivating the scientific community and
the public alike. The lack of effective treatment for most brain disorders makes the training of …

La Clase Mágica as a community based expansive learning approach to STEM education

A Schuetze, L Claeys, B Bustos Flores… - … International Journal for …, 2015 - elibrary.utb.de
As an alternative to experimental design, using a social design experiment methodology, we
analyzed the Academy for Teacher Excellence's La Clase Mágica's (LCM) Robotics Clubs, a …

A query-specific opinion summarization system

F Jin, M Huang, X Zhu - 2009 8th IEEE international conference …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a query-specific opinion summarization system: QOS. When input an
opinion question, the system returns a summary with relevance to the opinions and target …