Informed Design: A Contemporary Approach to Design Pedagogy as the Core Process in Technology

M David Burghardt; Michael Hacker

Technology Teacher Vol. 64, No. 1 (Sep 01, 2004)

In classroom settings, most problems are usually well defined, so students have little experience with open-ended problems. Technological design problems, however, are seldom well defined. The design process begins with broad ideas and concepts and...

Large-Scale Teacher Enhancement Projects Focusing on Technology Education

M David Burghardt; Michael Hacker

Journal of Industrial Teacher Education Vol. 39, No. 3 (2002) pp. 88–103

The co-authors have been co-Principal Investigators on two large-scale National Science Foundation-funded teacher enhancement projects for the past eight years. One of the projects focused on middle and high schools and the second focused on the...

WISEngineering: Supporting precollege engineering design and mathematical understanding

Jennifer L. Chiu; Peter T. Malcolm; Deborah Hecht; Crystal J. DeJaegher; Edward A. Pan; Michael Bradley; M. David Burghardt

Computers & Education Vol. 67, No. 1 (September 2013) pp. 142–155

Introducing engineering into precollege classroom settings has the potential to facilitate learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts and to increase interest in STEM careers. Successful engineering design projects ...

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