GRIFE Young Scholar Seminar Series VI

We are delighted to invite you to the upcoming GRIFE Young Scholar Seminar Series VI, titled "  Using Technologies to Spatialize STEM Learning by Co-Creating Symbols with Young Children”.

Limited studies have explored the role of technology in bridging teachers and children to create STEM knowledge collaboratively. Therefore, early childhood teachers encounter challenges integrating digital technologies to support children’s STEM learning. This study reports on an in-depth exploratory case study from a kindergarten classroom in Hong Kong, exemplifying a new approach to integrating digital technologies within spatialized STEM learning. The case selected continuity learning episodes from a spatially directed STEM learning unit on making a safe traffic city. Under digital technology-aided scaffolding, the teacher and children co-created a traffic symbolic system by designing symbols of landmarks, developing and applying spatial language, making maps and traffic games with rules. 

The finding indicated that the process through which the teacher and children collaboratively created STEM knowledge via technology-integrated scaffolding involved diverse processes (e.g., recalling spontaneous understanding about everyday concepts). The children required two levels of technology-aided scaffolding strategies to engage in STEM knowledge collaborative creation. Three novel roles of technology emerged that transform learning from knowledge delivery to collaborative creation in inquiries STEM tasks for young children: application, mediator, and catalyst. 
 

Please register from the following link for online and onsite participation!

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We can’t wait to welcome you and explore these important discussions together!