Supporting Latine children's informal engineering learning through tinkering and oral storytelling.

DI Acosta, CA Haden - Developmental psychology, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Providing equitable informal science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)
learning opportunities to young children from diverse backgrounds may be a way to …

Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration

DM Sobel, LW Stricker, DS Weisberg - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We examined 6‐to 9‐year‐olds'(N= 60, 35 girls, 34% White, 23% Hispanic, 2%
Black/African American, 2% Asian/Asian American, 22% Mixed Ethnicity/Race, 17 …

Parents' epistemic supports during home-based engineering design tasks: Opportunities and tensions through the use of technology

SH Kim, A Simpson - Educational technology research and development, 2024 - Springer
Within engineering education, informal, out-of-school making experiences and parent–child
interactions within home environments are both considered as a promising context for the …

How schoolchildren use digital media in class and outside of school over several weeks: A quantitative case study with media diaries

JV Meier, K Kaspar - Frontiers in Education, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Digital media play a central role in the lives of today's schoolchildren, immersed
in an increasingly digital world. Modern technologies blur the lines between formal school …

Museum-based tinkering and engineering learning opportunities among Latine families with young children

DI Acosta, CA Haden - Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
This study addressed whether and how tinkering experiences in a children's museum can
provide informal engineering learning opportunities for Latine families. Forty-two Latine …

“You gotta tell the camera”: Advancing children's engineering learning opportunities through tinkering and digital storytelling

LC Pagano, RE George, DH Uttal… - Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study addressed whether combining tinkering with digital storytelling (ie, narrating and
reflecting about experiences to an imagined audience) can engender engineering learning …

Engagements and Opportunities: A Review of the Scholarly Literature on Children's Museums, 2016–2021

K Carpenter - Journal of Museum Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A corpus of 65 articles from the years 2016–2021 was reviewed in order to
describe and analyze current representations of children's museums in the scholarly …

Factors affecting children's direct learning and productive memory processes in the context of virtual museums

LM Cronin-Golomb, J Pejic, HE Miller-Goldwater… - Cognitive …, 2024 - Elsevier
Informal educational opportunities such as visits to museums, aquariums, and zoos support
children's semantic knowledge gain. Most research focuses on outcomes of direct learning …

The intersection of parent questions, child skills, and activity context in informal science, technology, engineering, and math learning

VP Bambha, S Surrain, TA Zucker, Y Ahmed… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Adult verbal input occurs frequently during parent–child interactions. However, few studies
have considered how parent language varies across informal STEM (science, technology …

Spatial language in families' conversational reflections about museum experiences

N Polinsky, LC Pagano, DI Acosta, CA Haden… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Prior work demonstrates the importance of spatial language use during museum
experiences for children's spatial skills. The ways families talk about experiences after they …