Innovate to Mitigate: Analysis of student design and rationale in a crowdsourcing competition to mitigate global warming
Gilly Puttick, Brian Drayton, Santiago Gasca
Puttick, G., Drayton, B., & Gasca, S. (2022) "Innovate to Mitigate: Analysis of student design and rationale in a crowdsourcing competition to mitigate global warming." International Conference of the Learning Sciences Annual Proceedings 2022.
Abstract
The Innovate to Mitigate project adapts crowdsourcing to support project-based聽STEM education, posing design challenges for secondary-school students to design feasible聽innovative strategies to mitigate CO2 emissions and thus global warming. The paper presents聽evidence that the web-mediated communities of practice support learning of STEM concepts聽and practices and provides an account of how student and scientist discourse support that聽learning. Productive talk deployed by community members elicited greater levels of reasoning聽than was originally manifest in student work and resulted in improved student products.
Content Areas:
Engineering
Out of School / Informal Education
Science
Technology
EngineeringOut of School / Informal EducationScienceTechnologyRelated People:
Gillian Puttick, Brian Drayton, and Santiago Gasca
