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Reconceptualizing the Learning Spaces Created by Elementary Classroom Engineering

Tue, April 12, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 209 A

Session Type: Symposium

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Engineering in the elementary classroom presents opportunities for students to engage in social processes of problem-solving, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. In this symposium we build on existing scholarship that shows elementary engineering to: foster equity, afford intellectual risk taking, and develop connections between everyday and disciplinary discourses. The goal is to contribute to a broader understanding of learning available and utilized by children in the social spaces of elementary design teams. Four papers interrogate: competing discourses between “doing school” and “doing engineering”, student sketching as communication, student framing of engineering tasks, and connections between engineering and language practices.

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