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Environmental education seeks to foster meaningful connections to local and global environments through creative nature experiences. Responding to critiques of historical inequities, practitioners are prioritizing equitable access for historically marginalized youth, particularly from Black, Indigenous, and Latinx communities; this identity-centere...
Although the population of science teachers in the US lacks diversity, the technology used to teach science should be diverse and culturally connected. Culturally relevant frameworks for science call for science teaching to be situated in meaningful contexts. This study calls for the integration of CRP and situated cognition perspectives as a means...
Objectives. This paper investigates how bilingual youth of color negociate language when learning engineering and science. In recent decades, the number of bilingual speakers in the nation’s schools has increased due to demographic trends (U.S. Census Bureau, 2015). For bilinguals, learning science, if it is taught at all, often means learning Engl...
In science classrooms, teachers face the dual responsibility of teaching science and literacy. Educators are asked to deliver content knowledge while developing students’ ability to use discipline-specific language found in the Next Generation of Science Standards. In theory, science should be part of the curriculum in US schools. However, in under...
Virtual reality (VR) in science classrooms has the potential to enhance students’ learning by bridging the knowledge in the learners’ communities with science instruction. When virtual environments reflect students’ culture, it has the potential to influence their attitudes toward the value of science in their community. This qualitative study exam...
The Galapagos Islands, a province of Ecuador, is a volcanic archipelago located off the west coast of South America. Although the narratives around the Galapagos continue to emphasize its pristine nature and unique flora and fauna, the conservation of the archipelago has been a source of concern to the international community in the past few years....
This mixed-methods study examines the implications of using the tenets of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) to design an elementary science lesson grounded in four virtual reality (VR) videos. Given the need for additional understandings of how elementary science educators can infuse cultural relevance alongside content development, this study ill...
Executive Summary The Digital Media Academy mission states that the organization is "committed to providing impactful technology education and working with educational researchers to evaluate and improve their offering." This report summarizes the findings of the implementation study conducted on the Digital Media Academy Tech Camp hosted at Stanfo...