Phyllis Newbill’s research while affiliated with Virginia Tech and other places

... Emerging technologies are widely integrated into K-12 education because of their positive impact on facilitating computational thinking (Angeli and Valanides, 2020;Bakala et al., 2021;Chalmers, 2018), problem-solving (Danby et al., 2018;Lee-Cultura, Sharma, and Giannakos, 2022;Lorusso et al., 2018), and engaging learning experiences (Dong et al., 2023;Jones, 2020;. Furthermore, equipping children with the skills to navigate a rapidly evolving technological landscape is essential. ...

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A child-robot theater afterschool program can promote children’s conceptualization of social robots’ mental capacities and engagement in learning

... Various studies have explored effective methods for delivering stories to children through the use of social robots (Dong et al., 2024;Lee et al., 2022). Researchers have investigated whether a voice agent can have a similar effect on children compared to a human conversational partner (Xu & Warschauer, 2020). ...

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Effects of Sentiment-Based Sonification on Fairy Tale Listening Experience

... In the field of cultural learning, in [11] is presented a [2] and meta-analysis is presented on the contexts of use of AR and VR technologies to aid learning in museums, design elements of how AR and VR are incorporated into learning activities and what effects arise from learning assisted by AR/VR in museums. In the child-group museum visits, [12] focuses on how technology can be used to improve the visitor experience of museum exhibits and how visitors can be provided with means of interacting with exhibits, supporting interactivity but at the same time analyzing the impact on the attention of exhibition users and the possible decrease of their attention and of the interactions with other visitors. ...

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The Use of Technologies in Museums: A Bibliometric Analysis Based on the Web of Science Database

... Vaziri et al., 2020 [25] To explore the factors that influence the enrollment from rural students into an engineering program. ...

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College Choice Decisions: An Evaluation of Perna’s Conceptual Model Across Populations and Cultural Contexts

... For students enrolled in rural schools across the U.S., barriers to accessing high-quality engineering education include lack of resources, lack of attention from reformers, researchers, and legislation , which in turn lead to lack of awareness of diverse engineering careers. Additionally, rural youth, especially those who are high-achieving, are uniquely attached to their communities and may be discouraged from pursuing engineering careers because of the misconception that they would have to leave their communities in order to do so [6], [7]. These unique challenges discourage otherwise capable students from pursuing high-level courses and careers in engineering. ...

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Board 246: Designing a Curriculum to Broaden Middle School Students’ Ideas and Interest in Engineering

... Rural students have reported struggling to fit in culturally on large campuses and in urban areas [55]. Marginalized rural students in STEM, such as Hispanic students [56] and women pursuing engineering [57], face unique resource and educational challenges at the intersection of rural status and other identities. Students from rural America are pursuing higher education at declining rates compared to urban and suburban America [58], and many that do attend college remain close to home even if degree offerings are limited [59]. ...

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Disparities in access to U.S. quantum information education

... From the perspective of embodied learning, advanced technologies now offer learners simulated and immersive experiences within virtual or augmented reality (VR or AR) settings, a possibility that was previously unimaginable within traditional classroom settings. For example, motion-sensing input devices like Microsoft Kinect can capture learners' gestures and location, so that learners can interact with virtual objects (i.e., Gautam et al., 2018). Wearable devices can provide haptic feedback in response to learners' actions, which enhances the multimodal nature of learning by offering an additional channel of information (Magana & Balachandran, 2017). ...

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Embodied Learning for Computational Thinking in a Mixed-Reality Context

... The aim of the project was to extend the museal space by immersive experiences using innovative technologies. A feature of these innovative technologies that is often discussed in the literature is the possibility of enriching such learning worlds with a wide variety of multimedia content, building a framework that guides the learners [8] [5] [4] [2] [6] [9]. A wide variety of multimedia sources and representations in the form of text, images, audio, video, and animated illustrations where also embedded in the tour about the baroque master builders. ...

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Immersive Educational Spaces -the Creation of Location-based Augmented Reality on the Hosting Platform i.appear

... Figure 2: Self-determined student Figure 2 shows how the student is guided towards self-determined learning through the provision of instruction at appropriate levels (after Bloom) mediated through appropriate technological tools (Cennamo, Baum, Newbill & Finn, 2012;McNierney, 2004). The instruction takes into account the diverse styles of learning of each learner, their heterogeneity on so many levels, and with the development of critical thinking skills, the learner becomes autonomous. ...

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Unleashing the power of learner agency (https://edtechbooks.org/up)

... Hence, epistemic perspectives within trans-disciplinarity can be seen as a shift from disciplinary concepts to conceptual tools (Colucci-Gray et al., 2013), i.e. a wider societal lens towards perceiving the wicked problems through encompassing beliefs, disciplinary knowledge, and interaction of disciplines. As opposed to a teaching orientation, epistemic perspective within a trans-disciplinary approach is perceived to be agile, integrative, and possibly uncertain or even ambiguous (Colucci-Gray et al., 2013;Wagner et al., 2014). ...

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A model conceptualising trans-disciplinarity within school science education based on a systematic literature review