The ITEST Community of Practice: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Joyce Malyn-Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 625–629

This paper summarizes lessons learned from eight years of hosting a national resource center for the ITEST (Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers) program, funded by the National Science Foundation. At the core of the resource...

STEM Workforce Development Model and Outcomes Framework

Joyce Malyn-Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1594–1597

The ITEST program focuses on broad STEM workforce development goals and encourages projects to move toward those goals in innovative ways. Although many projects work towards similar outcomes, their innovative approaches result in wide variation in ...

Topics: K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related, Workforce Education, Research & Evaluation

A Program Director’s Guide to Evaluating STEM Education Programs: Lessons Learned from Local, State, and National Initiatives

Joyce Malyn-Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1774–1775

In this session Roundtable participants will review and discuss evaluation topics and resources presented in a Program Director’s Guide to Evaluating STEM Education Programs: Lessons Learned from Local, State, and National Initiatives. Few...

Topics: K-12 Teachers and School Leaders Related, Workforce Education, Research & Evaluation

The Information Technology Career Cluster Initiative: Demystifying IT

Joyce Malyn-Smith

Business Education Forum Vol. 57, No. 4 (2003) pp. 32–35

Describes the Information Technology Career Cluster Initiative and the tools it has developed to help educators improve information technology programs. Suggests that educators use the model and tools to guide program development, improvement, and...

Defining Emerging Occupations: Social Technology Enabled Professional, Big Data Enabled Specialist

Joyce Malyn-Smith; Joseph Ippolito

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1546–1552

: This workforce education paper describes a process used to define emerging occupations brought about by technology. It describes a modified occupational analysis process focused on a “learning occupation” and resulting in a profile that...

Topics: Workforce Education, Equity & Social Justice, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education

Facilitated and Self-Paced Design Strategies for Online Professional Learner Engagement

Kirsten Peterson; Joyce Malyn-Smith

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 442–448

In this virtual presentation we will share (and be available online during the conference to discuss) instructional design strategies from two in-process online professional learning projects (both with research components): a National Science...

Topics: Instructional Design, Implementation Examples & Issues

Workforce Education Models for K-12 STEM Education Programs: Reflections On, and Implications For, the NSF ITEST Program

David Reider; Kirk Knestis; Joyce Malyn-Smith

Journal of Science Education and Technology Vol. 25, No. 6 (2016) pp. 847–858

This article proposes a STEM workforce education logic model, tailored to the particular context of the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program. This model aims to help program...

Perspectives on Common Core Standards and Workforce Readiness

Manorama Talaiver; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Ferdi Serim

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 84–89

In this panel, presenters and the audience will exchange ideas about issues relating to Common Core State Standards and college/career readiness. Forty-five states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education ...

Online Professional Development for CS Teachers: Instructional Design Strategies for Broadening Participation in High School Computing

Joanna Goode; Kirsten Peterson; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Gail Chapman

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 606–611

Abstract: Computer Science (CS) for All, a national initiative in the United States, faces a steep challenge in finding and preparing classroom teachers to teach CS, especially in non-urban areas. The study described in this paper reports how online ...

Topics: Teacher education and technology integration, Design Principles, Learning Communities

The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) Program: Teachers developing the next generation of STEM talent

Caroline Parker; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Suzanne Reynolds-Alpert; Siobhan Bredin

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 187–201

This introduction to the JTATE special issue on the National Science Foundation Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) sets the context for the six articles that follow. The ITEST program is designed to discover and...

Topics: Schools, Information Communication Technologies, Community, Teachers, Change, Science, Professional Development

A K-6 Computational Thinking Curriculum Framework: Implications for Teacher Knowledge

Charoula Angeli; Joke Voogt; Andrew Fluck; Mary Webb; Margaret Cox; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Jason Zagami

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 19, No. 3 (2016) pp. 47–57

Adding computer science as a separate school subject to the core K-6 curriculum is a complex issue with educational challenges. The authors herein address two of these challenges: (1) the design of the curriculum based on a generic computational...

Computational Thinking in K-12: Defining the Space

Joyce Malyn-Smith; Bob Coulter; Jill Denner; Irene Lee; Joel Stiles; Linda Werner

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 3479–3484

“Computational thinking is creating and making use of different levels of abstraction to understand and solve problems more effectively; thinking algorithmically; and understanding the consequences of scale” (Carnegie Mellon University Center for...

Arguing for Computer Science in the School Curriculum

Andrew Fluck; Mary Webb; Margaret Cox; Charoula Angeli; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Joke Voogt; Jason Zagami

Journal of Educational Technology & Society Vol. 19, No. 3 (2016) pp. 38–46

Computer science has been a discipline for some years, and its position in the school curriculum has been contested differently in several countries. This paper looks at its role in three countries to illustrate these differences. A reconsideration...

Building STEM Career Pathways for Technology-Enabled Youth

Joyce Malyn-Smith; Jeri Hasselbring; Katherine Haydon; Patricia Jacobs; Ruth Kermish-Allen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 4128–4129

What does ITEST research say about technology-enabled youth? What are the critical elements of STEM Career Development? How does knowing these help youth build capacity to use technology in the service of STEM? What have we learned about motivation, ...

Issues in STEM Workforce Education for Information Technology and STEM Careers

Joyce Malyn-Smith; Steven Bean; Ralph Coppola; Rich Feller; Jess Gropen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2010 (Mar 29, 2010) pp. 2996–3001

Authors representing industry, career development, and cognitive science identify and discuss issues driving change in workforce education programs. This paper discusses areas of opportunity for the teacher education community to make significant...

Teacher Preparation in Developing 21st Century Workforce

Manorama Talaiver; Carolyn Staudt; Padhmanaban Seshaiyar; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Bonnie Bracey-Sutton; Jennifer Suh

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 90–94

In-service/pre-service teacher professional development on integrating science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning is critical for changes in instructional practices in math and science classrooms in developing the STEM...

Creating Future Ready Information Technology Policy for National Education Systems

Jason Zagami; Stefania Bocconi; Louise Starkey; John Dewar Wilson; David Gibson; Jill Downie; Joyce Malyn-Smith; Sandra Elliott

Technology, Knowledge and Learning Vol. 23, No. 3 (2018) pp. 495–506

With the increasing relevance of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the global transition towards the knowledge society, school systems and higher education now face increasing challenges involved in preparing students for...