the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is always a highlight of the calendar, and this year is no exception.
here’s what’s caught my eye in this year’s programme :-)
- Developing third-grade students’ computational thinking skills with educational robotics (Charoula M Angeli and Eria Makridou)
- Linking elementary students’ problem-solving process to computational thinking (Lauren Barth-Cohen, Guanhua Chen, Moataz Eltoukhy, Shiyan Jiang, et al.)
- Embodied account of geometry proof, insight, and intuition among novices, experts, and English Language learners (John Vito Binzak, Oh Hoon Kwon, John McGinty, Joseph E Michaelis, et al.)
- Advancing equity in STEM engagement with robotics (Monique Jethwani, Vikram Kapila and Sarah Zlotowitz)
- Elementary students’ computational thinking in robotics programming (Yeonji Jung, Jeongmin Lee and Myunghwa Lee)
- Maker-based Teacher Professional Development: examining K-12 teachers’ learning experiences in a makerspace (Matthew Caratachea, Jonathan Cohen, Monty Jones, Michael L Schad, et al.)
- Augmenting learning about local geoscience in a children’s garden with mobile technologies (Jessica Briskin, Soo Hyeon Kim, Susan M Land, Chrystal Maggiore, et al.)
- Exploring the relationship of emergent roles, collaboration and computational thinking in educational robotics (P Kevin Keith and Florence R Sullivan)
- Change in spatial visualisation mental rotation abilities of intermediate elementary students (Deborah D Dailey and Jason Trumble)
- Cognition and spatial concept formation: comparing non-digital and digital instruction using 3D models in science (Stephen Farenga, Salvatore G Garofalo and Daniel Ness)
- Computational thinking during robotics: abstraction as an embodied activity (Theodore J Kopcha and Ceren Ocak)
- Embodied ideas of scale: learning and engagement with a whole-body science simulation (Sahar Alameh, Robb Lindgren and Jason W Morphew)
- Using embodied instruction and programming language formats in young children’s debugging activities (Jung-Hyun Ahn, John B Black and Woonhee Sung)
- Toyhacking: maker literacies for the play revolution (Casey Pennington, Jill Scott and Karen E Wohlwend)
- Using projective reflection to inform design-based research on virtual environments that support identity exploration (Amanda Barany, Amanda Evenstone, Aroutis Nathaniel Foster, Rasheda Likely, et al.)
- Examining making literacy in the elementary science classroom (Lynn Burlbaw, Sharon Lynn Chu, Beth Deuermeyer, Patricia J Larke, et al.)
- When everyday understandings and scientific examinations are tightly coupled: exploring students’ heat transfer learning trajectories (Jie Chao, Joyce Massicotte, Corey Schimpf and Charles Xie)
- Methodology of a technology-enhanced affinity space for music learners (Heather J S Birch and Clare M Brett)
- Capturing computational making: what screencasts tell us about learning in a digital making activity (Stephanie Rae Benson, Whitney E Lewis, Breanne K Litts and Chase Kyle Mortensen)
- Maker process portfolios: looking at how students document interdisciplinary e-textiles projects within digital portfolios (Gayithri Jayathirta,Yasmin B Kafai, Debora Lui and Justice Toshiba Walker)
- Measuring debugging: how late elementary and middle school students handle broken code (Dor Abrahamson, Maggie Dahn, David DeLiema, Noel D Enyedy, et al.)
- Youth motivations for open maker portfolios in school and out-of-school makerspaces (Stephanie Chang, Anna Keune and Kylie A Peppler)
- Alternative facts and productive uncertainty in middle school mathematics classrooms (Susan Ophelia Cannon)
- Middle school students’ perspectives about how learning gardens facilitate engagement in science (Heather Anne Brule, Julia Dancis, Sybil Kelley, Ellen Skinner, et al.)
- Redefining science learning: urban elementary students leverage micro-level engineering practices to shape science learning identities (Rebeca Gamez, Susan Grine Harper and Carolyn Parker)
- An evaluative study of GPS-supported outdoor context-aware social inquiry (To Chan, Jie Geng, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Morris S Y Jong, et al.)
- Beyond books, names, and dates: using mobile augmented reality and prompts to foster historical reasoning (Chayse Haldane, Jason Matthew Harley, Susanne P Lajoie, Tianshu Li, et al.)
AERA 2018 runs from the 13th to the 17th of April, in New York City :-)