Float Your Boat: Making Instant Design Challenges Meaningful and Relevant

Autor/in	Oehrli, Robbie
Titel	Float Your Boat: Making Instant Design Challenges Meaningful and Relevant
Quelle	In: Technology and Engineering Teacher, 76 (2016) 1, S.24-28 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2158-0502
Schlagwörter	High School Students; Engineering; Design; Critical Thinking; Teamwork; Problem Solving; Cognitive Ability; Transportation; Learning Activities; Student Centered Learning; Scientific Concepts + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Maschinenbau; Kritisches Denken; Problemlösen; Denkfähigkeit; Verkehrswesen; Lernaktivität; Group work; Student-entered learning; Student-centred learning; Student centred learning; Schülerorientierter Unterricht; Schülerzentrierter Unterricht; Gruppenarbeit
Abstract	Engineering design is a core component of technology and engineering education, and although not every student will become an engineer following high school, all students can profit from having engineering design experiences in high school (Apedoe, Reynolds, Ellefson, & Schunn, 2008; Denson & Lammi, 2014; Grubbs & Strimel, 2015; National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council, 2009; Wicklein, 2006). For example, a fundamental purpose of using engineering design is to help students develop critical thinking and team-working skills (Wicklein, 2006), specifically, engineering design that takes the form of an open-ended challenge that requires problem solving. Although there are many types of open-ended design challenges available to cultivate students' cognitive ability, instant design challenges may be employed in technology and engineering education classrooms to contextualize learning for real-world problems. Furthermore, instant design challenges are a quick way of introducing new topics through simulated real-world problems. The purpose of this article is to illustrate how an instant design challenge can be employed in the context of transportation technology. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01