Scaling Digital Design Literacy in K-9 Education through the Fellowship Program

Katrine Holm Kanstrup, Marie Louise Wagner, Maarten Van Mechelen, Ole Sejer Iversen, Christian Dindler

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Abstract

We report from a research-based professional development program - the fellowship program - aimed at scaling digital design literacy in Danish K-9 education. The fellowship program was designed to engage with experienced K-9 teachers to provide them with the knowledge, experience and resources needed to further develop digital design literacy in their local school environment and to create networks for continuous exchange between researchers, educators of teachers and in-service teachers. In this paper we present the motivation, strategy, partnerships and execution of the fellowship program and report from survey results assessing participants gains and learning outcomes. We position the fellowship program within the broader discourse of leveraging teacher training in computing education and digital design literacy. We suggest that the fellowship format has a number of qualities that make it a potentially valuable addition to established teacher training initiatives. This includes the establishment of feedback loops and networks between researchers and practitioners, scaling through local peer-to-peer training, a modular and agile setup and the collaboration between educators of teachers and in-service teachers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 5th FabLearn Europe / MakeEd Conference 2021
Number of pages9
Place of publicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Publication dateJun 2021
Article number5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450389891
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021
Event5th International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education, FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021 - Virtual, Online, Switzerland
Duration: 2 Jun 20213 Jun 2021

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Computing, Design and Making in Education, FabLearn Europe / MakeEd 2021
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityVirtual, Online
Period02/06/202103/06/2021

Keywords

  • Digital Design Literacy
  • K-9 Education
  • Professional Development Program

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