Although an engaging context was important to keep students motivated throughout the unit, maintaining this context over the course of up to 3 weeks was challenging for a number of teachers.
Teachers in all three cases were challenged to make explicit connections between science, engineering, and mathematics while simultaneously maintaining a motivating and engaging context for their students throughout their instruction.
The next step was to design a sample of engaging contexts for items to assess the acquisition of the constituent components of engineering competency.
The university researchers anticipated that this MEA, with its accompanying publically available instructional resources, would offer an engaging, relatable context for the participants as they experienced their first mathematics-focused STEM integration task.
Computer and popular gaming systems (e.g., Nintendo Wii) have shown promising results in rehabilitation by casting therapy in a more engaging context.
For example, teachers were asked to include an engineering design challenge situated within a real-world, engaging context that addressed science content.
This framework includes six major tenets for successful STEM education: (1) a motivating and engaging context, (2) the inclusion of mathematics and/or science content, (3) student-centered pedagogies, (4) an engineering design, (5) an emphasis on teamwork and communication, and (6) learning from failure through redesign (Moore et al., 2014).
In particular, we believe that the Yosemite surveys, as one particularly rich exemplar of the power of natural history collections data, provide an ideal context for engaging students in inquiry-driven learning experiences that promote understanding of relevant biological concepts while simultaneously instilling familiarity with critical analytical skills (Cook et al. 2014).
The results can be used to inform the design of future in-vehicle natural language systems, in particular to help manage the tension between designing for an engaging dialogue (important for technology acceptance) and designing for an effective dialogue (important to minimise distraction in a driving context).
35 36 While using personal experiences is an engaging method for profit-making media, it is important that medical journalists ensure that accurate and relevant messages are presented in their articles whether in the context of a celebrity case or a specific awareness piece.
