Technology Provides Enhanced Capabilities for Educating Learners
Technology provides enhanced capabilities for educating learners, and schools should embrace these capabilities to reshape education and to prepare students for the changing world. Collins &...
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A poignant metaphor relating education to a ticket that one first discovers, then earns through formal education and personal enriching experiences, and cashes in for life’s adventures. The writings...
View ArticleWhat is Engineering Education? A Foundation
Author Meagan Ross, in a poignant metaphor, describes an education in engineering as the ultimate foundation. Through personal reflection of her own experiences in engineering education, she inserts...
View ArticleWhat is Engineering? A Definition of the Profession
Author Meagan Ross, through a brief examination of literature related to the history and philosophy of engineering, describes how engineering is different from science, how engineering is a process of...
View ArticleWhat is Engineering? A workshop model for K-6 Counselors
If children begin career development in elementary school, then it is important for their teachers and counselors to be prepared to introduce all types of careers, especially those that will help us...
View ArticleEvaluation Framework for Engineering Education Curriculum
This paper introduces a framework and rubric for evaluation of K-12 engineering education curriculum, based on engineering education literature and the Wiggins & McTighe process known as Backwards...
View ArticleModel Eliciting Activity: Green Roof
This is a model eliciting activity for high school students who have had algebra to do as an exercise using the engineering design process in any STEM course. This MEA examines rooftop gardens for...
View ArticleWhat is Design? Design is Creativity Unleashed
Creativity Unleashed The National Academy of Engineering 2004 report, The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century, creativity is described as one of the key attributes needed to...
View ArticleA Case for Engineering in K-12
This article was originally written in the Fall of 2010. U.S. Department of Labor workforce projections for 2018 highlight that nine of the 10 fastest-growing occupations requiring at least a...
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