Dr. Stephen Adams, Mr. Paul Burns, and Dr. Lisa Martin-Hansen Publish Peer-Reviewed Journal Article Regarding Project in STEM Education
Collaborators in educational technology and science education have published a peer-reviewed journal article regarding a project in STEM education. Two of the collaborators, Dr. Stephen Adams and Mr. Paul Burns, were from the Educational Technology and Media Leadership program of the College of Education. Dr. Adams is a Professor and coordinator of the program. Paul Burns teaches part-time in the program and also works as a science education teacher at Intellectual Virtues Academy, a middle school in Long Beach. He began working on the project while he was a Master’s student in educational technology. The team also included Dr. Lisa Martin-Hansen, chair of the Science Education department in CSULB’s College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
The paper, “Youth Views of Science and Engineering in a Program for Preparing Teachers to Use Educational Technology in STEM Education,” was published in the science education section of the journal Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education. The paper relates to a project directed by Dr. Adams that includes a graduate course for teachers. As part of the course, teachers worked in teams to plan and conduct workshops for youth at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Long Beach. The workshops related to engineering education and used educational technologies. The paper describes the approach and outcomes related to youth at the Boys & Girls Club.
This multidisciplinary work was published in a journal that itself is a collaboration between two professional organizations in teacher education: the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) and the Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE). In addition to the journal article, Dr. Adams, Mr. Burns and Dr. Martin-Hansen have also recently had a conference presentation related to the project accepted at an upcoming meeting of ASTE in Savannah, GA.
This work grew out of a project that was supported by Fluor, Chevron, and by a grant awarded by the CSU Collaborative for the Advancement of Linked Learning with funding from the James Irvine Foundation.
