Share Paper: Designing Digital Materials to Support Teacher Enactment of a Project-Based Middle School Biology Curriculum

  1. Janice Anderson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
  2. Kerry Bartlett, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
  3. Lana Minshew, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
  4. Dalila Dragnic-Cindric, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
  5. Kelly Barber-Lester, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
Tuesday, March 7 5:30 PM-7:00 PM Capitol Ballroom D & E

Abstract: This poster will detail the current progress of the development of digital curricular materials in the context of Biosphere, a Design-Based Research project. Our work is grounded in foundational research on collaborative meaning making, which has shown that technology-mediated building and sharing of collaborative knowledge advances both group and individual development. The design solutions and the teacher’s enactment of the designs we are exploring necessarily rely on digital technologies that are accessible, affordable, and usable to help even underprepared teachers orchestrate technology-mediated collaborative learning and teaching in high-needs rural schools.