How Co-Designing Computational Modeling Activities Helped Teachers Implement Responsive Teaching Strategies

Authors

Hillary Swanson, Utah State UniversityFollow
LuEttaMae Lawrence, Utah State UniversityFollow
Jared Arnell, Utah State UniversityFollow
AlLisia Dawkins, Utah State UniversityFollow
Bonni Jones, Utah State UniversityFollow
Bruce Sherin, Northwestern UniversityFollow
Uri Wilensky, Northwestern UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

LDT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Learning, Design and Technology

Author ORCID Identifier

Hillary Swanson https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5953-6780

LuEttaMae Lawrence https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6066-5096

Jared Arnell https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6314-2538

AlLisia Dawkins https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3946-4224

Bonni Jones https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9892-5313

Bruce Sherin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3299-3126

Uri Wilensky https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9591-3109

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

Publication Date

6-23-2023

First Page

79

Last Page

86

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Abstract

In recent years, science education has shifted focus, from content to practice. This is reflected in the NGSS, which advocate learning science concepts through engagement in science and engineering practices. Theory building is a central activity of science and computational modeling is a key practice through which contemporary scientists construct theory. In this paper, we discuss an 8th grade science teacher's implementation of a computational modeling lesson. The teacher had co-designed the computational modeling microworld and lesson with the research team over the preceding summers. We investigate the teacher's activity during a whole-class discussion near the end of the lesson, to understand her responsive teaching strategies and how the co-designed technology supported her in eliciting and responding to student ideas. We examine the transcript from a follow-up interview to understand her experience implementing the co-designed technology and responsive teaching strategies, and to identify foci of future co-design iterations.

Recommended Citation

Hillary Swanson, LuEttaMae Lawrence, Jared Arnell, AlLisia Dawkins, Bonni Jones, Bruce Sherin, and Uri Wilensky. 2023. How Co-Designing Computational Modeling Activities Helped Teachers Implement Responsive Teaching Strategies. In Learning, Design and Technology (LDT '23), June 23, 2023, Evanston, IL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594781.3594800