Search results for author:"Douglas Williams"
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Exploring Undergraduate Business Students? Difficulties in Learning Statistics
Guolin Lai; Douglas Williams
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1954–1959
Statistical literacy, statistical reasoning, and statistical thinking are highly valued and expected from US college graduates. However, coupled with ill-preparation of their math capability in K-12 schools, many American undergraduate students in...
Topics: mathematics education, New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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How Does a First LEGO League Robotics Program Provide Opportunities for Teaching Children 21st Century Skills?
Yuxin Ma; Douglas Williams; Guolin Lai
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1507–1509
In this study, the authors examine the experience of a First LEGO League (FLL) robotics team to explore the potential for teaching 21st century skills in the context of FLL. We found that the program provided opportunities for learning many 21st...
Topics: Engineering Education
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Students’ Perceptions of Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy in Their Statistics Learning
Guolin Lai; Douglas Williams; Long Li
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2137–2143
Many college students struggle in their required statistic course(s). The use of technology has the potential to bring about positive changes in content, pedagogy, and course format of statistics instruction. This study explores undergraduate...
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Arborgraphia: A Location-based App for Learning About Trees
Douglas Williams; Yuxin Ma; Aimee Barber; Guolin Lai; Nathan Dolenc
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2440–2441
Smartphones provide new opportunities for experiential adventure learning. These devices provide opportunities to contextualize learning based on location and engage children in learning out-of-doors. This presentation will share the design and...
Topics: Science Education, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Using an Educational Computer Game to Teach History in a Pedagogical Laboratory
Douglas Williams; Guolin Lai; Yuxin Ma; Louise Prejean
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1847–1852
Many students are not motivated to learn history. In social studies classrooms, history is usually taught as facts to memorize, but not as one that provides students with opportunities to sharpen their analytical thinking skills. Researchers have...
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Examining the Preparation of Preservice Teachers to use Design Thinking, Tinkering, and Making with Elementary School Children
Douglas Williams; Aimee Barber; Guolin Lai; Nathan Dolenc
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1529–1533
This presentation will examine the preparation of preservice teachers for teaching engineering design through design thinking, an approach for practical and creative problem solving. Though initially used in fields such as architecture and...
Topics: Science Education, Engineering Education
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Learning From Nature. Pre-service Teachers Use of Biomimicry as a Teaching Strategy
Douglas Williams; Nathan Dolenc; Aimee Barber; Guolin Lai
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2670–2674
As the need for workers to address routine manual tasks declines, there are new demands on K-12 educational systems to prepare students for non-routine analytical tasks. Engaging students in biomimicry, an approach that looks to nature for...
Topics: Science Education, Engineering Education
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Diffusion and Adoption of FIRST LEGO League in Louisiana
Guolin Lai; Long Li; Douglas Williams; Aimee Barber; Nathen Dolenc
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1351–1356
21st century competencies including cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal dimension have been touted as a key in helping produce students with highly critical thinking and unstructured problem-solving capability. FIRST LEGO League (FLL) is...
Topics: Computational Thinking, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)
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The Effects of Video Tutorials as a Supplement in Enhancing Students’ Statistics Performance
Guolin Lai; Zhiwei Zhu; John Tanner; Douglas Williams
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1092–1099
As a supplement to traditional classroom instruction, online video tutorials were created and made available as just-in-time support to enhance undergraduate business students’ academic performance in a required introductory statistics course. The...
Topics: Research & Evaluation
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Integrating Storytelling into Robotics Challenges that Teach Mathematics
Yuxin Ma; Douglas Williams; Guolin Lai; Louise Prejean; Mary Jane Ford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 4499–4504
Robotics has the potential to motivate student learning in mathematics, science, and engineering. However, existing robotics activities typically do not have a rich story context to motivate students; and more significantly, they do not often...
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Teacher Candidates' Experience in a Pedagogical Laboratory
Louise Prejean; Douglas Williams; Yuxin Ma; Guolin Lai; Mary Jane Ford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2007 (Mar 26, 2007) pp. 3459–3466
A teacher education program in a southern research/teaching university created a model pedagogical laboratory that focuses on technology integration. The pedagogical laboratory has been offering robotics programs to elementary and middle school...
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Acquisition of Physics Content Knowledge and Scientific Inquiry Skills in a Robotics Summer Camp
Douglas C. Williams; Yuxin Ma; Louise Prejean; Mary Jane Ford; Guolin Lai
Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 40, No. 2 (2008) pp. 201–216
Despite the growing popularity of robotics competitions such as FIRST LEGO League, robotics activities are typically not found in regular K-12 classrooms. We speculate that, among other reasons, limited adoption is due to the lack of empirical...
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Teachers’ Belief Change in a Pedagogical Laboratory
Guolin Lai; Yuxin Ma; Douglas Williams; Louise Prejean; Mary Jane Ford
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2008 (Mar 03, 2008) pp. 1140–1145
Teacher candidates enrolled in a technology integration methods course facilitated student-centered lessons in a pedagogical laboratory as they taught a robotics or digital storytelling unit. We adopted a quantitative instrument to measure the...