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Description:: The rise in children’s media use (Rideout & Robb, 2020) and the prioritization of STEM learning (Fayer et al., 2017) has led to the development of new STEM-related apps, TV shows, and other media for young children. One topic in this area gaining popularity is computational thinking (CT). Researchers refer...
Keyword:: Diversity, Culture and Inclusion, Computational Thinking, Early Childhood, Educational Television, and STEM
Subject:: Developmental psychology, Science education, and Communication
Creator:: Lemley, Breniel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: With more jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields available than people to fill them, the United States is extremely focused on increasing STEM education to address this gap in the future workforce. This focus is not exclusive to higher education and secondary schooling, but rather, it has...
Keyword:: preschoolers, learning, haptics, STEM, tablets, and Tanvas
Subject:: Early childhood education and Mass communication
Creator:: Pila, Sarah
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_738851 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15061

Description:: This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the dance makerspace, a learning environment designed to support STEM engagement through making and embodied experience for a group of African American youth dancers. It looks at how participants in a 4-week summer camp program at an urban creative arts center-turned-makerspace, constructed embodied...
Keyword:: STEAM, Makerspace, STEM, Embodiment, Embodied Cognition, and Dance
Subject:: Dance and Science education
Creator:: Champion, Dionne Nicole
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_619548 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14418

Description:: Developing an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an important precursor to pursuing a STEM career. Given the United States’ relatively low standings in science and math compared to similar industrialized nations and its desire to be competitive in an increasingly STEM-based global economy, policy makers are...
Keyword:: Race, Characters, Gender, STEM, Early Childhood, and Educational Television
Subject:: Communication Studies
Creator:: Fashina Alade
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 04/22/2019
Date Modified:: 04/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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