Aerial Drone: an Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Mino
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ORIGINAL PAPER
Aerial Drone: an Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Minority High School Students in the U.S. Jay Bhuyan 1 & Fan Wu 1 & Cassandra Thomas 1 & Kai Koong 1 & Jung Won Hur 2 & Chih-hsuan Wang 2
# Association for Educational Communications & Technology 2020
Abstract This paper describes the design, implementation, and results of an NSF funded Summer Academy from 2016 to 2018, which engaged, on an annual basis, 30 to 60 rising 10th and 11th grade high school science students in an innovative, technologyenriched Project Based Learning (PBL) environment. This Academy emphasized how tech gadgets work and the impact that technology can have on improving communities by immersing students in the exploration of one such device that is a growing phenomenon, the “aerial drone.” In this Academy, the students learned various operations of the drone through Python programming language, and some cybersecurity issues and solutions. The student teams, under the guidance of diverse mentors, comprehensively fortified their STEM problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Both formative and summative evaluations for this Academy showed that it helped students improve their critical thinking ability and motivated them to pursue careers in STEM-related disciplines, specifically in information technology and cybersecurity areas. Keywords Drone . Minority students . K-12 computer science . STEM interest . Cybersecurity
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation results of an NSF funded Summer Academy from 2016 to 2018 that engaged, on an annual basis, 30 to 60 rising 10th and 11th
* Jay Bhuyan [email protected] Fan Wu [email protected] Cassandra Thomas [email protected] Kai Koong [email protected] Jung Won Hur [email protected] Chih-hsuan Wang [email protected] 1
College of Business and Information Science, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA
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Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership& Technology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA
grade high school science students in an innovative, technology enriched Project Based Learning (PBL) environment. The Summer Academy was implemented as a partnership of a Historically Black College and University (“HBCU”) and its Engineering and Computer Science Alumni Associations (“HBCU AA”), a Research University (“RU”), and a rural and an urban school district in the historic Black Belt region of the southeastern United States. The focus of the partnership was to recruit annually a cohort of 30 ethnically and racially diverse high school students (“scholars”) and 5 teachers from the partnering school districts for immersion in a STEM intensive PBL four-week “STEM Summer Academy.” This comprehensive Academy was designed to provide high school students and teachers with far-reaching technological experiences through exploration of aerial drone application under a PBL framework. In this PBL environment, purposeful “driving questions” that integrate aerial drones were investigated by S
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