Assistant Professor of STEM Education Department of Theory amp Practice in Teacher Education Tightening up your shoe game Engineering STEAM Identities in Urban Youth The Problem Relationships between identities learning and context ID: 275439
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Christopher G. Wright, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of STEM EducationDepartment of Theory & Practice in Teacher Education
“Tightening up your shoe game:
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Engineering STEAM
Identities in Urban YouthSlide2
The Problem: Relationships between identities, learning, and contextSlide3
Think about and write down 5 “identities” of yourself.Choose ONE of these identities. Is it “static?”Choose THREE of these identities. What is their relationship?
How does this relationship impact your “academic identity,” or learning?
Who are you?Slide4
African American maleHip-hop enthusiastsBaltimore, MD nativeSports fanatic
(Go Ravens
&
O’s)Tufts University graduate (graduate)
Hampton Univ. / HBCU graduate (undergraduate)Architecture majorUrban educator / researcher
Father
My Identities:Slide5
African American maleHip-hop enthusiastsBaltimore, MD nativeSports fanatic
Tufts University graduate (graduate)
Hampton Univ. / HBCU graduate (undergraduate)
Architecture majorUrban educator / researcherFather
My Identities:Slide6
African American maleHip-hop enthusiastsBaltimore, MD nativeSports fanatic
Tufts University graduate (graduate)
Hampton Univ. / HBCU graduate (undergraduate)
Architecture majorUrban educator / researcher
FatherMy Identities:Slide7
Know the young people you’re working with!
Making STEAM Relevant
Take a look at your shoes…..Slide8
Concept Project: “How is your shoe game?”Slide9
Students explore why different types of sneakers are used in a variety of common sports, and how engineers analyze & design needs in sneakers.
Students analyze foot movements in a variety of sports, develop design criteria for a specific sport, & make recommendations for requirements for the sneakers used in that sport.
Bioengineering & Shoe DesignSlide10
The STEAM in Sneaker DesignSlide11
What opportunities do youths have to communicate their connections?Can you create opportunities for youths do develop a design problem?
Moving Forward:
“Authentic” RoboticsSlide12
Christopher Wright, Ph.D.cwrigh48@utk.edu865.974.5973
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Thank you for your time!!