Projects
This project aims for teachers and students in all contexts to have access to evidence-based practices and resources to actively participate in a computational world, collaborating with global partners to conduct research to understand how CS learning happens in a variety of contexts, provide professional learning opportunities to teachers and investigate effective professional learning practices for integrating CS classrooms, and develop and provide low-cost computational tools that are accessible to all.
UVA-DESIGNED ROBOTS TO SUPPORT CS EDUCATION WORLDWIDE
The AI-based Classroom Teaching Simulator (ACTS) is an NSF-funded project designed to help teachers practice research-based instructional strategies in content-based scenarios. The ACTS web interface has both chat functionality as well as a dynamic representation that teachers can use to discuss a task with a virtual student. ACTS relies on recent advances in natural language processing, deep learning, and uncertainty quantification and features human-in-the-loop functionality.
In partnership with CodeVA and VCU, this NSF-funded project helps elementary teachers integrate culturally-relevant/culturally-sustaining computer science instruction in elementary classrooms.
CODEVA RECEIVES NSF CSforALL GRANT
In partnership with Charlottesville City Public Schools, UVA Education and Computer Science, Tech-Girls and Computers4Kids, this Virginia Department of Education funded project develops high-quality curricular resources and professional development focused on equity and access to computer science education.
This NSF-funded project addresses the critical need for curricular materials and professional development around integrating science, engineering, and computational thinking in elementary classrooms.
LOCAL STUDENTS PILOT NEW UVA CURRICULUM COMBINING COMPUTERS, RAIN AND PLAYGROUNDS
Creating Educational Citizen-Leaders Through Service Learning
In partnership with Albemarle County Public Schools, UVA Architecture and Education Schools, this Jefferson Trust-funded project helps teachers employ design thinking to address school-based problems.
UVA DESIGN-THINKING COLLABORATION HELPS LOCAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WIN NATIONAL AWARD
Designing technology-enhanced learning environments for collaboration
This project explored how the built environment and technology-enhanced educational tools can be integrated to support student-centered and collaborative learning of computational concepts.
This project explores how to integrate design thinking and makerspaces into teacher education programs. Come check out our spaces in Ridley Hall!
This NSF-funded project explores how to support engineering learning in secondary school settings by providing automated guidance within computer-aided design (CAD) environments. The work is part of a collaboration with the Concord Consortium and Purdue University.
Scaffolding Engineering Design to Develop Integrated STEM Understanding with WISEngineering
This NSF CAREER award investigated how to support middle school students learning science, engineering, and math concepts through scaffolded engineering design projects in WISEngineering.
Supported by NSF and in collaboration with the Concord Consortium, this project built mixed-reality technologies for secondary science classrooms.
WISEngineering
WISEngineering is a free online learning environment used to investigate how to support students and teachers implementing engineering design projects. WISEngineering is a collaborative project with UVa, Hofstra University, the City University of New York (CUNY) and is based upon Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) technologies from the University of California, Berkeley.
This project, funded by a $1.28 million grant from the National Science Foundation NOYCE program, seeks to recruit, educate and retain 40 academically talented science and engineering undergraduate and graduate students to become certified high school science teachers with expertise in engineering approaches for science education. An accompanying NSF grant studies pedagogical knowledge and student learning in these contexts.
Scratch that Itch! Democratizing the Teaching of Parallel Computing Concepts
This collaborative NSF-funded project with Virginia Tech supported development of explicit parallel programming constructs to help middle school to undergraduate students develop parallel computing reasoning.
Exploring Engineering Self-Efficacy, Mindset, and Career Interest with Global Design Challenges
This project, supported by a Curry IDEAS grant, integrates WISEngineering global design projects into the Young Women's Leadership Program.