Open AccessHow engineering notebook supporting Thai elementary student practice in STEM learning
Author(s) -
Sumalee Tientongdee,
Kelly Ficklin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1835/1/012041
Subject(s) - engineering education , coding (social sciences) , ethnography , engineering design process , mathematics education , process (computing) , work (physics) , pedagogy , action research , engineering , psychology , computer science , sociology , engineering management , mechanical engineering , social science , anthropology , operating system
This paper examines the use of engineering notebooks to foster 5 th grade Thai student engagement and the learning of engineering practices in STEM education. This study examines how students? engineering notebooks support student work during design challenges. Through educational ethnography and discourse analysis, transcripts of student talk and action were created and coded around the uses of engineering notebooks at three Thai elementary schools in Bangkok, Thailand. Our coding process identified two broad categories of roles for the notebooks: scaffold student activity and support practices of engineering design. The study showed the importance of prompts was to engage students in communicating, writing, drawing, and redesigning in the small group by having an engineering notebook as a tool to support their learning.