Session Format
Poster Session (60 minutes)
Session Format
Presentation Session (45 minutes)
Target Audience
Primary Education
Location
Holiday Inn
Second Time and Location
Friday, March 6 from 11:35-12:00 p.m. at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center
Abstract for the conference program
This poster highlights an innovative STEM project focused on two goals: (1) reducing the cost of computer-based measuring devices, and (2) the implementation of these devices in middle school classrooms. The first phase of the project -- creating the DIY Data Collecting Computer -- was a collaborative effort between computer science and science teacher education faculty and their students. Single-board computers, including the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno, were used as the basis for the data collecting computer. In the second phase, the university team worked with middle school teachers and administrators to implement a multi-day unit in which eighth grade students built the computer in a technology elective class. Once created, these computers were used by the students as measuring devices in their physical science class. Multi-level collaborative effort was involved throughout, with cross-departmental university collaboration, university and middle school collaboration, and finally, cross-subject middle school collaboration.
Proposal Track
Non-research Project
Proposal Track
T1: Teaching and Learning in the STEM Field
Start Date
3-5-2015 7:00 PM
End Date
3-5-2015 9:00 PM
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Covert, Joe; Lindly, Jennifer; Hitz, Markus; and Baldwin, Paul F., "The DIY Data Collecting Computer Project: Integrating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Scholarship of Community Engagement" (2015). Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019). 59.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/stem/2015/2015/59
The DIY Data Collecting Computer Project: Integrating the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Scholarship of Community Engagement
Holiday Inn
This poster highlights an innovative STEM project focused on two goals: (1) reducing the cost of computer-based measuring devices, and (2) the implementation of these devices in middle school classrooms. The first phase of the project -- creating the DIY Data Collecting Computer -- was a collaborative effort between computer science and science teacher education faculty and their students. Single-board computers, including the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Uno, were used as the basis for the data collecting computer. In the second phase, the university team worked with middle school teachers and administrators to implement a multi-day unit in which eighth grade students built the computer in a technology elective class. Once created, these computers were used by the students as measuring devices in their physical science class. Multi-level collaborative effort was involved throughout, with cross-departmental university collaboration, university and middle school collaboration, and finally, cross-subject middle school collaboration.
