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Description:: This dissertation is about designing learning environments that foreground students’ epistemic agency as they do science in a science classroom. I build on the prior work that combines two important strands in learning sciences - agent-based modeling of complex systems and constructionism to design learning environments. I call such learning...
Keyword:: Restructurations, Agent-based models, Constructionism, Computational Thinking, and Scientific inquiry
Subject:: Education, Educational technology, and Science education
Creator:: Dabholkar, Sugat
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15865 and etdadmin_upload_863334

Description:: Design problems are highly ill-structured, having “ambiguous specifications of goals, no determined solution path, and the need to integrate multiple knowledge domains” (Jonassen, 2000, p. 80). Design problems are generated by stakeholders to meet needs that exist outside of the classroom (Simon, 1973; Jonassen, 2000)—this is in contrast to most...
Keyword:: Iteration, Project-based Learning, Design, Design-based Research, and Coaching
Subject:: Education, Design, and Educational technology
Creator:: Rees Lewis, Daniel George
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14426 and etdadmin_upload_623161

Description:: This dissertation uses the lens of sociomateriality to examine two cases of innovative, technology-mediated civic learning programs, a U.S. Government class in a suburban high school that engages students in a simulation of the legislative process, and an English Language Arts unit in an urban public school in which students...
Keyword:: technology integration, liminality, assemblage, sociomateriality, infrastructure, and civic learning
Subject:: Curriculum development, Education, and Educational technology
Creator:: Smirnov, Natalia
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_677419 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14757

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