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What’s Your Vector, Victor?

or how to make a cheesy title with limited connection to what you actually did.

2011-2012 CETL Grant Presentation

Dr. Thomas Loveland

Project Objective

Teach design and measurement skills using a laser engraver technology.

Make connections from authentic application of class work to work world.

Teach vector-based software (Ah, so there was something in the title after all)

Project Goal

Prepare future secondary-level Technology Education teachers with communication skills working with laser engravers and engraving design software.

Use innovative technologies to improve instructional skills.

Help teachers make crucial STEM connections.

STEM Standards The Standards for Technological Literacy: Content for the Study of Technology,

http://www.iteea.org/TAA/PDFs/xstnd.pdf International Technology and Engineering Educator Association (www.iteea.org)

Common Core State Standards for Mathematics http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics , Common Core State Standards Initiative, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics http://www.nctm.org

National Science Education Standards www.nsta.org/publications/nses.aspx

National Science Teachers Association http://www.nsta.org A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and

Core Ideas https://download.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13165 Committee on Conceptual Framework for the New K-12 Science Education Standards; National Research Council

Trotec Laser Engraver

Located in Technology Education Lab: NM 166

$60,000 engraver donated to program in July 2011

Donation Impact on Students

In exchange for the engraver, the Technology Education dept head and students wrote a 15 module STEM-based curricula for the company.

Benefits: Student authentic writing of comprehensive lesson plans with full resources (PPT, tests, student directions, teacher directions, worksheets, and video).

Curriculum included the teaching of Corel Draw, a vector-based design software application.

What’s Your Vector, Victor?

Study of authentic hands-on learning using laser engraver and a student-produced instructional module.

A BS degree student volunteered to do a module in January 2012.

Student takes Pretest

Instructional module & activity

Student takes Post-test

Module 4

“Laser Set-Up Procedures”

Directions and procedures for opening clip art and engraving a substrate.

Substrate: Red Delicious Apple

Pre and post test covers laser parts, job control software, and operational procedures.

Results

Pre-Test: 5/10 answered correctly

Module 4 Worksheet filled out in detail

Post-test: 10/10 answered correctly

Reflection

Pre-post tests based on one student

Anecdotal conversation with student revealed the hands-on portion helped to teach the concepts more so than the booklet.

When you can include educational technology as part of instruction, it helps capture student attention and motivates students to learn.