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Welcoming new PostDoc, Jenn Cross, to Tufts CEEO
Jennifer Cross, Ph.D., is a new Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO ) where her primary research interests include investigating human-robot interaction in education contexts, developing novel programming interfaces for educational robots, and supporting diversity in engineering education. At the CEEO, she is teaching a course for the Teacher […]
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Summer 2018 Design and Engineering Workshops
By Laura Fradin, Education Specialist This summer, the CEEO hosted workshops for educators and students throughout the summer. As always, our workshop introduced participants to the CEEO approach to engineering design. Students and teachers came from the local area and as far away as Japan. Two hundred students, kindergarten through 12th grade, participated in ten […]
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2018 LEGO Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference
Tufts CEEO is excited to report on another successful LEGO Education Symposium and Tufts STEM Education Conference! The combined events took place from June 5th-7th on the Tufts campus and attracted 170 educators from over 30 countries in addition to highlighting some of the amazing research and outreach done by Tufts’ own faculty. Keynote speakers […]
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The EnLIGHTening Quilt
article by Fay Shaw, Post Doctoral Research Associate work by Kathleen Robinson and Amanda Strawhacker In the Spring 2018 semester, students in the Child Development course, Children & New Technology (CD114), collaboratively created a quilt for the Eliot-Pearson Early Childhood Makerspace. The goal of the course was to explore ways to better integrate technology into […]
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Learning Conceptual Knowledge Through Homework
by Jessica Swenson The inspiration for my dissertation came from two sources: personal experience as an engineering student and courses developed at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO). As an undergraduate engineering student, I did everything a “good” student should. I went to class everyday, attended optional recitations, went to office hours, and […]
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CEEO papers presented at ASEE
By Samantha Leong Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) graduate students and faculty attended the 2018 Annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference this June 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah. We were excited to have four conference papers accepted this year. ASEE continues to be an important part of sharing the […]
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Reflective Decision-Making in Elementary Students’ Engineering Design
This blog entry features a summary and highlights from an article entitled Reflective Decision‐Making in Elementary Students’ Engineering Design by Kristen Bethke Wendell, Christopher G. Wright, and Patricia Paugh published in the Journal of Engineering Education. It’s a great way to get introduced to the research happening at Tufts CEEO. By Elissa Milto, Director of Outreach […]
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Position Announcement: Post-Doctoral Researcher
The Center for Engineering Education and Outreach invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral scholar to work on studying teacher learning in K-12 engineering education. The initial appointment is for the academic year 2018-2019, renewable for up to two years total. The position looks at teacher learning, particularly teacher noticing, across two NSF-funded projects. The first, Developing […]
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CEEO Summer Design & Engineering Workshops for Kids
Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) has an exciting list of research based Design and Engineering Workshops (DEW) for kids during the summer of 2018. We have a variety of different themed workshops for all different age ranges! Your child will be immersed into the world of engineering and walk away feeling […]
