scholarly journals Motivating Teaching, Sustaining Change in Practice: Design Principles for Teacher Learning in Project-Based Learning Contexts

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 757-779
Author(s):  
Emily C. Miller ◽  
Samuel Severance ◽  
Joseph Krajcik
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Zhang Huiyu ◽  
Linda Fang

Biostatistics is a second-year subject taken by Biomedical Engineering Diploma students in Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. Gamification elements, referenced from the popular Pokémon GO, were infused into a suite of activities. The purpose was to engage and sustain the interest of students while facilitating the successful execution of their group project. The gamified initiative, named Biostatistics GO, generated much excitement and added depth to the learning of this project-based subject. In this paper, we present the design of Biostatistics GO by highlighting the key design principles, describing the gamification elements, and reviewing its impact on the students’ achievements and learning.


2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2333794X1875939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mythili Srinivasan ◽  
Timothy J. Casper

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2 Jul-Oct) ◽  
pp. 115-140
Author(s):  
Juana María Sancho-Gil ◽  
José Miguel Correa-Gorospe

En este artículo, desde la perspectiva de los nuevos materialismos y empirismos, nos acercamos a algunas formas, modos, momentos y lugares de aprender de docentes de infantil, primaria y secundaria. Lo hacemos, no solo centrándonos en las interacciones con sus contextos, sino desde la noción de las "intra-acciones" para ir más allá de la metafísica del individualismo que subyace a las interpretaciones convencionales de las "interacciones”. Esto nos permite sobrepasar la separación que tiende a realizar la investigación lógico-positivista entre las personas y los objetos del mundo que les rodea, en este caso los contextos de aprendizaje de los docentes, al considerar que están interconectados antes de que la mirada del investigador los separe. Las cartografías de aprendizaje y las narraciones realizadas por los docentes que participaron en la investigación y las conversaciones mantenidas con ellos, nos han permitido identificar las intra-acciones de los espacios, tiempos, condiciones, expectativas, recursos, artefactos, etc., en sus procesos del aprender. Esto nos ha permitido vislumbrar la constitución mutua de organismos enredados y los difuminados límites entre los cuerpos y objetos, considerándolos fenómenos materiales discursivos. Desde una mirada post-cualitativa, situamos este análisis desde la teoría y lo que ésta permite pensar para que, más que ‘obtener resultados’, podamos contribuir a comprender el aprendizaje de los docentes y sus implicaciones para la práctica y la formación inicial y permanente. El artículo finaliza planteando la implicaciones y desafíos de este estudio en la forma de entender el aprender y en la formación del profesorado. This article aimed to approach some forms, modes, moments and places of learning of infant, primary and secondary teachers from the perspective of new materialism and empiricism. We did this, not only by focusing on interactions with their contexts, but also from the notion of "intra-actions" since our purpose was to go beyond the metaphysics of individualism which underlies conventional interpretations of "interactions". This allowed us to overcome the separation that logical-positivist research tends to make between people and objects. This article, therefore, considered that in teacher learning contexts teachers and objects are interconnected before the researcher's gaze separated them. The learning cartographies and narrations provided by the teachers who participated in the research and the conversations held with them allowed us to identify in their learning processes the intra-actions of spaces, times, conditions, expectations, resources, artefacts, etc. This enabled us to glimpse the mutual constitution of entangled organisms and the blurred boundaries between bodies and objects, considering them as discursive material phenomena. From a post-qualitative perspective, we situated this analysis from what the theory allowed us to think so that, rather than 'obtaining results', we contributed to understanding teacher learning and its implications for practice and initial and ongoing training. The article ended by posing implications and challenges regarding the usual understanding of both learning and pre-service and in-service teachers’ professional development.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Emmy Vrieling-Teunter ◽  
Rosanne Hebing ◽  
Marjan Vermeulen

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-409
Author(s):  
Baizhen Gao ◽  
Rushant Sabnis ◽  
Tommaso Costantini ◽  
Robert Jinkerson ◽  
Qing Sun

Microbial communities drive diverse processes that impact nearly everything on this planet, from global biogeochemical cycles to human health. Harnessing the power of these microorganisms could provide solutions to many of the challenges that face society. However, naturally occurring microbial communities are not optimized for anthropogenic use. An emerging area of research is focusing on engineering synthetic microbial communities to carry out predefined functions. Microbial community engineers are applying design principles like top-down and bottom-up approaches to create synthetic microbial communities having a myriad of real-life applications in health care, disease prevention, and environmental remediation. Multiple genetic engineering tools and delivery approaches can be used to ‘knock-in' new gene functions into microbial communities. A systematic study of the microbial interactions, community assembling principles, and engineering tools are necessary for us to understand the microbial community and to better utilize them. Continued analysis and effort are required to further the current and potential applications of synthetic microbial communities.


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