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Connecting Game Design with Problem Posing Skills in Early Childhood
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Kalmpourtzis, George – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
This paper presents a teaching experiment with preschoolers, considering games as means for presenting problem-based situations and focusing on the development of game design in connection to problem posing skills. The study was conducted in a focus group of eighteen 5-6-year-old students who participated in game design sessions, compared to a…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Problem Solving
Maker Education Initiators and Innovators
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Soi Chong Powell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In an effort to interest more students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes (STEM), more school systems have implemented maker education in the formal school setting. However, many teachers assigned to implement the maker curricula met difficulties due to their unfamiliarity with the maker mindset and lack of the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
Problem-Based Learning in Early Childhood and Primary Pre-Service Teacher Education: Identifying the Issues and Examining the Benefits
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Edwards, Susan; Hammer, Marie – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2007
Problem Based Learning (PBL) has been used with increased frequency in Higher Education settings since first introduced by Barrows and Tamblyn during the 1980's. Since this time PBL has been used in medical, engineering and education faculties to support pre-service students in the acquisition of skills and content knowledge relevant to their…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary Education