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You Don’t Need to Read to Appreciate a Story — And That’s a Lesson for Learning to Code
By Ulrik Rosenberg, Learning Consultant at Tåsingeskolen, Svendborg, Denmark You don’t need to know how to read to enjoy a story. Long before children learn to decode letters, they listen, imagine, and understand narratives. This doesn’t diminish the importance of literacy — on the contrary, it shows how curiosity and engagement can lead to learning. The same…
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Expanding Sixth-Grade Youth’s Understanding Of Engineering Through Critical Multilingual Journalism
Chelsea Andrews, PI Kristen Wendell, Co-PI Greses Perez, Co-PI The Community-Tech-Press project, led by Research Assistant Professor Chelsea Andrews, Associate Professor Kristen Wendell, and McDonnell Family Assistant Professor Greses Pérez, is a 6th-grade science curriculum partnership between Tufts CEEO and Somerville Public Schools. The team, which includes graduate researchers Clara Mabour and Fatima Rahman, has…
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Graduate Student Spotlight: Sophie Hankin
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Oakland, CA, where I lived with my parents and older brother until coming to Tufts for undergrad. I have lots of cousins and both sets of grandparents on the West Coast, so I spent a lot of time with my…
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Transforming Stuffed Animals into Smart Modules
Mechanical Engineering Student Sophie Hankin gives us an update on the Smart Playground project and the studded animals she transformed into Smart Modules. I designed the Smart Module stuffed animals as part of the Smart Playground Project. This project is a collaboration between UC Irvine, Boston College, and the Tufts Center for Engineering Education and…
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Graduate Student Profile: Mohammed Tonkal
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Jeddah, a major city in Saudi Arabia where I grew up and spent most of my life. I’m the middle child among four siblings—three brothers and a sister. In our family, academic excellence was the norm, and getting A’s was…
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Tufts CEEO debuts new AI course for teachers
In the spring of 2024, Tufts CEEO debuted a new online course, ENE 193: Engineering Design with ArtificialIntelligence for Middle and High School Teachers. The course was designed to support middle and high schoolteachers in exploring artificial intelligence (AI) within the context of teaching engineering design. Developedby Lecturer Bill Church and Research Associate Professor Ethan…
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Post-Doc Profile: Rob Hayes
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I grew up in Rhode Island – first in North Providence (until I was 10) and then in Burrillville. My childhood was organized around family, sports, and academics. Me and my younger sister Elise spent a lot of time with my grandpa…
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Student Spotlight: Geling (Jazz) Xu
Tell us about where you are from and what your childhood was like. I’m from Taiyuan, Shanxi, China (my whole family is from Northeast China, so although I grew up in Shanxi, we retained the Northeast food habits and culture). As a kid, I liked playing the drums, playing basketball, playing with LEGO, playing Monopoly,…
