Meaningfully Integrating Digital Fabrication in an Afterschool Program

Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1075–1084

As new and engaging technologies emerge, the education community has an opportunity to investigate meaningful ways to use them in the classroom. Such opportunities can provide students with a chance to transition from the consumption of meaning to...

Art Ed Maker PD Experience: Impacts of an Immersive Professional Development For “Making” STEM Connections In K-12 Art Classrooms

Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1273–1281

This mixed methods project examined the impact of an eight-month Art Ed Maker PD experience focused on STEM-infused “maker” activities using New Media Arts, specifically looking at the ways in which participants made connections between visual arts...

Topics: Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)

Epic Fails: Reconceptualizing Failure as a Catalyst for Developing Creative Persistence within Teaching and Learning Experiences

Shaunna Smith

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 3 (July 2015) pp. 329–355

This article presents findings from a case study that explored creative persistence through a reconceptualization of what it means to fail within an educational setting. Participants included in-service teachers enrolled in a semester-long graduate...

Topics: Creativity, Teaching Methods, Learning Objects, Physical Environments

Through the Teacher's Eyes: Unpacking the TPACK of Digital Fabrication Integration in Middle School Language Arts

Shaunna Smith

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 46, No. 2 (2013) pp. 207–227

Digital fabrication consists of manufacturing design technology that is used to facilitate the creation of physical objects. Existing research suggests digital fabrication technology can inspire student creativity and innovation in mathematics and...

Go to Your Classroom and Make Meaning: Using the Digital Fabrication Process to Make Original Pop-up Books in an Afterschool Program

Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1070–1074

This poster session will showcase the educational uses of the digital fabrication process, an affordable, student-friendly design technology. Digital fabrication can be used to make meaningful objects out of paper, vinyl, and thin-media. The focus...

Student-Created Reflective Video as Meaningful Formative and Summative Assessment During Hands-On Learning Experiences

Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1191–1198

This paper examines the use of student-created reflective videos (SCRV) to document hands-on learning experiences, including the degree to which, 1) the technical structure connected multimedia layers to communicate ideas, 2) the pre-determined...

Topics: Research & Evaluation, Digital Storytelling/Video, Assessment and E-Folios

Using Mobile Makerspaces to Support Classroom-based Augmented Reality (AR): A Scalable Framework for Encouraging Creativity and Innovation

Daniel Tillman; Shaunna Smith

EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2018 (Jun 25, 2018) pp. 905–908

A makerspace provides support and resources for the users’ interests and projects pertaining to making things, often involving components like electronics, textiles, and 3D printers (Cohen, Jones, Smith, & Calandra, 2017). Makerspaces have many...

Topics: Blended Learning, Mobile teaching and learning technologies, Augmented Reality

Psychosocial and Cognitive Dimensions of the ‘Self’ within Pre-service Teachers’ Reflective Blogs

Shaunna Smith; Ruben Garza

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 460–469

This study provides support for the importance of addressing Deng & Yuen’s (2011) three blogging behaviors (write, read, and comment) as well as the psychosocial and cognitive dimensions that participants explore as they authentically represent the ‘...

Topics: Distance/Flexible Education

3D Digital Fabrication & Design: Discovering burgeoning technology and Finding a research path

Jason Trumble; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2390–2393

This roundtable discussion will engage the audience in the powerful process of 3D design. A demonstration of 3D design to print and multiple modeling technologies will be presented briefly. A discussion exploring interdisciplinary 3D fabrication...

Topics: Creativity, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Digital Fabrication Playground: Hands-on Experimentation with Design Technologies to Enrich Learning

Shaunna Smith; Daniel Tillman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 133–136

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of various digital fabrication design technologies that have potential to enrich interdisciplinary connections. Among these are two-dimensional digital fabrication tools that cut thin materials and ...

Topics: Learning Objects, Creativity, Digital Fabrication

Learning to Write the Story of Digital Storytelling

Lauren Burrow; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1329–1333

This paper focuses on the writing process, a key component of digital storytelling that can help ensure that students are well prepared to successfully utilize the digital portion of the process. It briefly describes the use of Vivian Paley’s...

Using a BYOD Model to Teach a Graduate Level Video Production Course to In-service Teachers

Shaunna Smith; David Byrum

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 1738–1745

This paper reflects on the experience of utilizing a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model to teach a graduate-level teacher education course in video production. Students enrolled in the course were in-service teachers whose curriculum and instruction ...

Digital Fabrication in Education: A Critical Look at Authentic Integration

Shaunna Smith; Jonathan Cohen; Monty Jones

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 112–113

This panel will take a critical look at how digital fabrication technologies can be authentically integrated to support learning in the areas of STEM, STEAM, and educational makerspaces. The panelists will discuss 1) ways of considering the...

Topics: Digital Fabrication, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)

Establishing STEAM Technology/Maker Labs in Colleges of Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned

Jonathan Cohen; Monty Jones; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 127–128

This panel will detail efforts at 3 different universities to establish STEAM technology labs/makerspaces. The panelists will discuss the both challenges involved in integrating this technology into their colleges as well as the opportunities these...

Topics: Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies, Digital Fabrication

Fab@School: Children’s Engineering in the Elementary Classroom

Glen Bull; Shaunna Smith; Peggy Stearns

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3796–3798

This session will illustrate how Fab@School introduces students to the excitement and power of digital fabrication, empowering them to imagine, invent, collaborate and fabricate geometric structures, simple machines, pop-ups and other 3D products....

The Student-Directed EdTech Conference: Nurturing Teacher Leadership Skills

David Byrum; Doug Holschuh; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 1186–1194

This paper is about the evolution of a teacher education program sponsored educational technology conference as it moved from a student-assisted conference to a completely student directed conference. Situated as part of a graduate-level educational ...

Topics: Technology Leadership

3D Digitization in the Classroom: Leveraging 3D Models, No 3D Printer Required

Shaunna Smith; Jason Trumble; Claudia Grant

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 143–145

This roundtable will introduce a variety of free 3D digitization tools that can support student exploration of existing virtual 3D models and creation of virtual copies of 3D objects. Multidisciplinary content connections, practical K-12 integration ...

Topics: Digital Fabrication, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Analyzing the Development of Science and Mathematics Teachers’ Maker-Centered Philosophy and Instructional Practices

Shelly Rodriguez; Shaunna Smith; Jason Harron

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 21, No. 1 (March 2021) pp. 97–125

Making is an iterative process of designing, building, tinkering, and problem-solving, resulting in the creation of personally meaningful artifacts. Fueled by recent developments in affordable, safe, and easy to use digital fabrication technologies, ...

If We Give a Workshop and Nobody Comes, is it still Professional Development?

David Byrum; Doug Holschuh; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 3096–3105

This practitioner-focused paper is about an example of professional development failure in teacher education. We detail the real-life journey of the educational technology program during the 2013/14 school year in which training was planned to...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Technology Leadership, Training, Professional Development

TPACK Growth at a Distance

Kathryn S. Lee; Yungwei Hao; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 382–387

As part of a larger mixed methods study, this paper is reporting on the TPACK development of twelve graduate students enrolled in a teaching methods distance learning course at a large southwestern university in Texas. The TPACK survey was...

Topics: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Distance/Flexible Education

Pre-Service Teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Knowledge: A Continuum of Views on Effective Technology Integration

Kathryn Lee; Shaunna Smith; Beth Bos

The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance Vol. 29, No. 2 (Nov 11, 2014)

This article reports a heuristic case study that explored how components of Technological Pedagogical Knowledge (TPK) manifested in the artifacts of post-Baccalaureate pre-service teachers. Self-reported perceptions of their technology integration...

A Systematic Literature Review of Using Immersive Virtual Reality Technology in Teacher Education

Glenna Billingsley; Scott Smith; Shaunna Smith; Julia Meritt

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 30, No. 1 (2019) pp. 65–90

Virtual reality (VR) technology offers promise in enriching learning opportunities in teacher education programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways immersive virtual reality has been used in teacher-training programs. This...

Database-Driven Information Design: Building a Structural Framework for Educational Website Design

Shaunna Smith; Sara McNeil; Bernard Robin; Arthur Beltran; Michael Rapp

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 3767–3773

This paper addresses the important role of information design in the design and development of online database-driven educational websites. Using our own collaborative projects to build a structural framework, we discuss lessons learned from a...

Makification: Towards a Framework for Leveraging the Maker Movement in Formal Education

Jonathan Cohen; W. Monty Jones; Shaunna Smith; Brendan Calandra

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia Vol. 26, No. 3 (July 2017) pp. 217–229

Maker culture is part of a burgeoning movement in which individuals leverage modern digital technologies to produce and share physical artifacts with a broader community. Certain components of the maker movement, if properly leveraged, hold promise...

Educators' Perceptions of a Maker-Based Learning Experience

Jonathan D. Cohen; Julia Huprich; W. Monty Jones; Shaunna Smith

International Journal of Information and Learning Technology Vol. 34, No. 5 (2017) pp. 428–438

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine a cohort of educators' perspectives of a semester-long maker-based university course. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative study utilized participants' weekly and end-of-semester written...

Innovative Digital Design Technologies that Support Student Creativity

Daniel Tillman; Shaunna Smith; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 182–187

This roundtable discusses research on the utilization of innovative digital design technologies to support interdisciplinary education, such as contextualized mathematics education within music themed activities. As an example, the 2013 “World Music ...

Topics: Creativity, Digital Fabrication

Digital Fabrication Scaffolds for Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics Pedagogy

Daniel Tillman; William Kjellstrom; Shaunna Smith; Eric Yoder

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 892–897

This pilot study was designed to facilitate determination of a role for supports in assisting preservice elementary teachers to develop a mathematics pedagogy that includes using digital fabrication. Although results were statistically insignificant,...

The Engineering Education Maker Identity Project: Process and Tools as Boundary Objects within Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Shaunna Smith; Kimberly Talley; Araceli Ortiz; Vedaraman Sriraman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 1365–1371

This brief paper highlights the impact of a semester-long makerspace experience focused on cross-disciplinary collaboration by specifically addressing the preliminary findings from in-/pre-service teacher participants. As a subset of a larger study, ...

Topics: Digital Fabrication, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education)

The Impact of Mobile Handheld Digital Devices on Student Learning: A Literature Review with Meta-Analysis

Hans Friedel; Beth Bos; Kathryn Lee; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3708–3717

A veritable consensus of educators, employers, policy makers, professional organizations, and researchers expect that today’s K-12 students know how to effectively use Internet and computer technologies Some have advocated reducing the achievement...

Preservice and Early Career Teachers' Preconceptions and Misconceptions about Making in Education

Jonathan D. Cohen; W. Monty Jones; Shaunna Smith

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 34, No. 1 (2018) pp. 31–42

This qualitative study examined preservice and early career teachers' preconceptions and misconceptions about making in education. Eighty-two preservice and early career teachers participated in brief, one-time maker workshops, then wrote...

Makification: Towards a Framework for Leveraging the Maker Movement in Formal Education

Jonathan Cohen; W. Monty Jones; Shaunna Smith; Brendan Calandra

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 129–135

Maker culture is part of a burgeoning movement in which individuals leverage modern digital technologies to produce and share physical artifacts with a broader community. Certain components of the maker movement, if properly leveraged, hold promise...

Topics: Digital Fabrication

Building Multidisciplinary Connections: Intersections of Content, Creativity, and Digital Fabrication Technologies

Shaunna Smith; Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; David Slykhuis; Curby Alexander; Danah Henriksen; Rhonda Church; Adam Goodman

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 2506–2510

This symposium seeks to address how various digital fabrication technologies can be integrated for authentic experiential learning that nurtures creativity and fosters the development of multidisciplinary connections. With the unique ability to...

Topics: Creativity, Engineering Education, Digital Fabrication

Fail Again, Fail Better: Contextual factors that influence creativity in technology mediated learning contexts

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; Shaunna Smith; Michael DeSchryver; Chris Fahnoe; Colin Terry; William Cain; Jonathon Good

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1892–1897

This symposium addresses issues of the kinds of technology-mediated contexts that support creativity. An additional theme is that of how the idea of failure can prompt the creative process. Presenters in this symposium will describe the theoretical, ...

Topics: Creativity

A Role for Digital Fabrication Activities Utilizing the Engineering Design Process in Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Mathematics and Science Pedagogy

Daniel Tillman; Gabriella Ducamp; Crystal Dejaegher; Jonathan Cohen; William Kjellstrom; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1085–1090

This study (begun August 2011 and scheduled to complete January 2012) is designed to determine how an instructional technology course incorporating an engineering design framework with digital fabrication activities influences preservice elementary...

Creativity SIG Symposium: Creativity Across the Disciplines: Exploring the Boundaries of Teacher Education

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; William Cain; Adam Friedman; Joe Garofalo; Douglas Hartman; David Hicks; John Lee; John C. Park; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1935–1940

Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). Research has shown that teachers, as mentors and role models, are principal constituents in developing ...

Topics: Teaching Methods, Creativity, Research Methods

Creating Creative Classrooms 2020: Field-tested Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; David Slykhuis; Shaunna Smith; W. Monty Jones; Jonathan Cohen; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Song An

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1168–1170

This panel discussion presents a group of discussants who each research the use of innovative technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts developing and supporting creative classrooms—such as elementary teachers...

Topics: Creativity, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), Designing Learning Spaces

Creative Classrooms 2020 & Beyond: The Future for Field-testing Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; David Slykhuis; Shaunna Smith; W. Monty Jones; Jonathan Cohen; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Song An

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 1171–1172

This panel discussion presents the second part of a sequence, wherein a group of discussants who each research the use of innovative technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts developing and supporting creative classrooms,...

Topics: Creativity, Maker (Formerly Engineering Education), Designing Learning Spaces

Creativity SIG Symposium: Creativity Across the Disciplines: Exploring the Boundaries of Teacher Education

Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; William Cain; Adam Friedman; Joe Garofalo; Douglas Hartman; David Hicks; John Lee; John C. Park; Shaunna Smith

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1941–1946

Over the past several decades, creativity has become a subject of heightened interest to the field of teaching (Plucker, Beghetto, and Dow, 2004). Research has shown that teachers, as mentors and role models, are principal constituents in developing ...

Topics: Creativity

Creating Creative Classrooms: Field-tested Best Practices

Daniel Tillman; Shaunna Smith; Song An; Punya Mishra; Danah Henriksen; Jonathan Cohen; David Slykhuis; Curby Alexander; Joyce Asing-Cashman; Carlos Paez; Annette Siemssen; Cameron Wilson; Sandy Romo; W. Monty Jones

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 137–140

This roundtable discusses research on the utilization of innovative digital design technologies to support current and future teachers in their efforts creating creative classrooms—such as elementary teachers contextualizing mathematics education...

Topics: Digital Fabrication, Elementary Education, Classrooms