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Description:: As our world is increasingly filled with data visualizations, having the skills to leverage data visualizations is essential for participation in society. Confident engagement with data visualizations is critical for being an educated member of society; however, research has shown that it is difficult for individuals to digest and gain...
Subject:: Design, Educational technology, and Computer science
Creator:: Thompson, JaCoya
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_971103 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16451

Description:: We are witnessing an excitement about digital games and related immersive media as these become ever more prevalent in the world. Governments, private companies, and research institutes are investing in these technologies in hopes of transforming education. However, while scholarship on digital game-based learning has been steadily growing over the...
Keyword:: Digital games, Metaverse, Mixed-Methods, Teacher practice, Game based learning, and Minecraft
Subject:: Instructional design, Pedagogy, and Educational technology
Creator:: Bar-El, David
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_929400 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16271

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:: We live in an increasingly computational world; one that, in the near term, may require everyone to be computationally literate. Computer science (CS) education has greatly increased its reach in the last two decades with an increasing number of students having access to formal computer science classroom experiences in the...
Keyword:: Pedagogy, Teacher practice, Computational thinking, and Science education
Subject:: Teacher education, Educational technology, and Computer science
Creator:: Bain, Connor
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/02/2022
Date Created:: 2021-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_834005 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15654

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

Description:: Economic inequality has reached historically high levels in both the United States and in the world. The research literature in sociology and political science has long shown that individuals tend to be very persistent in their views on the determinants of economic success, although these views may be formed on...
Keyword:: Wealth Inequality, Learning Environment Design, Participatory Simulation, Complex System, and Agent-Based Modeling
Subject:: Educational technology
Creator:: Guo, Yu
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14690 and etdadmin_upload_663418

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