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- Title
Using Technology to Expand the Classroom in Time, Space, and Diversity.
- Authors
Drew, Joshua
- Abstract
Diverse classrooms offer distinct advantages over homogeneous classrooms, for example by providing a greater diversity of perspectives and opportunities. However, there is substantial underrepresentation of numerous groups throughout science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, from secondary schools through professional ranks and academia. In this piece I offer a critical analysis of three worked examples of how technology can be used to expand traditional definitions of the classroom environment. In doing so I show how technology can be used to help make STEM classrooms more expansive, equitable, and effective learning environments. First I highlight how peer-to-peer learning was used to foster knowledge of marine conservation with high school youth across Fiji and Chicago. Second I show how social media can be used to facilitate conversations in New York City after a natural disaster. Finally, I show how integrating digital and real-world learning can help a diverse group of students from the Pacific islands gain field-based STEM techniques in an extended workshop format. Taken together these examples show how digital technology could expand the fixed walls of the academy and that technology can help show students the vivid splendor of life outside the classroom.
- Subjects
STEM education; MARINE resources conservation; BIOLOGY education in secondary schools; CLASSROOM environment; SECONDARY education; HIGH technology &; education
- Publication
Integrative & Comparative Biology, 2015, Vol 55, Issue 5, p926
- ISSN
1540-7063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icb/icv044