K-Gray Engineering Pathway

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K-Gray Engineering Pathway

• AAAS Annual Meeting
• K-12 Resources in the NSDL Engineering Pathway
• February 16, 2007

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Comprehensive K-Gray Pathway for Engineering
Education
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K-Gray Engineering Pathway

• TeachEngineering
• Jacquelyn Sullivan Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
• René Reitsma, Oregon State University
• Gary Ybarra Paul Klenk, Duke University
• Mike Mooney, Colorado School of Mines
• Martha Cyr, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

• NEEDS Higher Education
• Alice Agogino, Jialong Wu, Andi Niess, Paul
  Mackinney, Esha Datta,Grace Hsu, UC Berkeley
• Evaluation/ Sustainability
• Joe, Tront, Virginia Tech
• Nancy Van House, School of Information, UC
  Berkeley
• Advisory Board

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Target Audience for K-12 Resources

• K-12 teachers, parents, students, professional
  development groups, summer enrichment programs
  and service organizations interested in
  problem/inquiry-based learning and bringing in
  real-world concepts used in engineering and
  applied sciences suitable for K-12.
• Corporations, engineering professionals,
  engineering faculty and college students involved
  in K-12 engineering initiatives.

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Target Audience for Higher Education

• Career information for transition for students
  interested in careers in engineer, computer
  science or technology.
• Higher education professionals (faculty,
  instructors, staff) who need access to
  ABET-related engineering education resources.
• Engineering students in higher education
  community colleges, undergraduate universities
  and research universities.

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Engineering Pathway Features

• K-12 Community Resources
• Higher Education Community Resources
• Resources for Broadening Participation Careers,
  Diversity
• Browse and Search Resources by Keyword, Grade
  Level, Standard, Learning Resource Type, Title,
  Author, Review, Special Topics, Host Collection,
  Publication Year and more
• Metathesaurus to Suggest Related Search Terms
• Links to related terms in the NSDL
• Reviews of resources/ Top Picks / Most Downloaded
• User statistics on downloads, views and comments
• Online Cataloging RSS Feeds of New Resources
• Personal Workspace

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K-12 Target Audience

• TeachEngineerings vision is to use engineering
  as a vehicle to integrate science and math in
  K-12 classrooms through inquiry-based curricula
  and hands-on activities that demonstrate the
  creativity of engineering and are relevant to the
  lives of youth.

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K-12 Teacher/ Outreach Benefits

• Curricula
• Hands-on
• Inquiry- and project-based
• Promote connections to other subjectsIntegrate
  Science, Technology, Math Engineering concepts
  through engaging activities
• Aligned with K-12 educational standards
• Provides tools to assess learning outcomes
• Consistent look and feel is teacher friendly
• Its free, with low-cost lessons and activities

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K-12 Student Benefits

• Hands-on learning engages youth while cementing
  theory
• Students thrive on learning in cooperative
  groupings
• Curricula relate to everyday encounters in the
  lives of youth learning in context
• Experience first-hand that engineering is about
  creating things for the benefit of society

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Creating Value for Users

• K-12 Teachers
• One-stop shopping
• Curricula for classroom use
• Engineering Faculty and Fellows
• Use collection to partner with local schools
• Opportunity to make lasting contribution
• University service-learning courseware
  opportunities
• Practicing engineers from industry and societies
• What math and science do 5th graders do?
• What do 7th grade science teachers need?

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• Web portals to real and archival data from
  real-world systems for use in engineering,
  science and math activities

Engineering Our Water (USGS data) Wind
Engineering (wind farm data) Fastracks (Denver
transportation data)
Encourage students to explore, construct meaning,
critically think about and use data for analysis
and design
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EP Promotes Curricular Innovations

• Content Multidisciplinary teamwork, hands-on and
  laboratory experiences, open-ended problem
  formulation and interactives.
• Integrative thinking linking theory to practice
  and society
• Increasing diversifying the engineering pipeline

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Interoperate with NSDL
Single Sign-in with NSDL
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EP Allows Users to Define Topical Series

• Black and African American Scientists and
  Engineers (62)
• Broadening Participation (43)
• Cooperative and Collaborative Learning (10)
• Engineer 2020 (31)
• Engineering for Girls (9)
• Ethics in Science and Engineering (95)
• Green Design, Manufacturing and Sustainable
  Engrg. (188)
• Hispanic Engineers and Scientists (19)
• History of Technology (57)
• Mobile Learning (120)

• Multimedia Case Studies of Design in Industry
  (15)
• Nanotechnology (18)
• Native American Engineers and Scientists (31)
• Persons with Disabilities (31)
• Community-service learning (42)
• Simple Machines (40)
• Teaching and Learning Research (72)
• Technology and Society (15)
• US News Top Ten Undergraduate Institutions (32)
• Women and Information Technology (1140)

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Levels of Review in EP

• Supports a multi-tier evaluation system from our
  national award competition with sponsors from
  industry to user-based reviews of individual
  learning resources.
• Ingestion level (minimum level)
• User ratings comments
• Peer review
• Premier award

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Cracking Dams Interactive
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Align Educational Resources to Standards

• Align K-12 curricula with K-12 STEM educational
  standards. Initial states (CO, MA, NC)
• National (McREL, AAAS, NSES, NCTM, ITEA)
• Cross-correlated
• Use ABET accreditation criteria for indexing,
  evaluating, selecting and reusing undergraduate
  engineering content.

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Growing the Engineering Pathway

• Harvest/adapt resources from targeted projects
  (e.g., NSF GK-12 awards, NSF Engineering Research
  Centers, National Academy).
• Harvest/adapt resources related to cutting-edge
  gaps (NSF priorities, NAE Engineer 2020 reports).
  
• Leverage engineering content and services within
  other NSDL collections.
• Infuse resources on inclusion and diversity in
  engineering education.

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Example TeachEngineering Resource Simple Machines
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Planned Engineering Pathway Features

• K-12 Premier Award
• Mapping to content standards in all states
• My Workspace will have teacher folders, public
  folders
• Ability to publish folders or lists of resource
  links
• Recommender system
• More social networking (commenting, tagging,
  forums, etc.)
• More student-centric resources and rating schemes
• Expert editors on disciplinary pages
• Improved mobile device access
• Widgets that can be added to your website for
  customized search

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Hands-On Workshop

• Together explore Engineering Pathway/ NSDL
  scenarios
• Register in EP to access workspace and NSDL
  expert voices
• Explore Simple Machines, Black Scientists and
  Engineers, Engineering for Girls, Green Design,
  Manufacturing and Sustainable Engineering
• Mobile learning lesson plan example
• We value your feedback please freely share your
  ideas and suggestions.

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