Technology and Engineering Education - Vol 2, #3

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EDITORIAL: Strategies for Integrating Sustainability into Technology and Engineering Education

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BRINGING STEM TO LIFE: Motivations and Challenges: Insights for Supporting TEE Teachers

Study results describing reasons why both early-career and veteran TEE teachers chose to pursue this profession, the challenges they face, and the motivations and challenges toward improving support for TEE teachers.

ELEMENTARY STEM IN ACTION: Building Elementary Computer Science Educators' Capacity: A Workshop to Improve Content and Pedagogical Knowledge

Explores the development, highlights, results, and implications from a virtual professional learning experience for K-5 educators on designing engaging CS education.

SECONDARY STEM IN ACTION: Exploring the Intersections of Engineering and Technology: Tinkercad in the Middle School Classroom

A description of how engaging lessons in engineering, robotics, architecture, and more, that foster creativity, problem-solving, and hands-on learning in a user-friendly virtual environment are possible using Tinkercad, including a lesson emphasizing the engineering design process using the simulation feature of Tinkercad.

INTEGRATING STEM DISCIPLINES: Informed Design Considerations for Modified Ride-on Cars

Explores how integrating narratives with mathematics provides a dynamic and engaging way for students to connect mathematics with real-world contexts and prepare them for complex challenges.

BUILDING A STEM TOOLKIT: Computing Integrated Design Challenge: Reinventing a Design Challenge through Computing Integration

As computing has become vital for advancing technology and engineering education, this article aims to illustrate how integrating computing can enhance an engineering design activity.

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES: Nurturing Creativity through Simplicity: Accessible STEM Lessons for Every Classroom

This article presents a STEM lesson designed to foster creativity by guiding seventh grade students through the design of future technologies, applying concepts from science, math, and technology in a science and technology secondary school in Bangkok, Thailand.

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