Lana M Minshew

Conference Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences Icls · January 1, 2018 This paper reports a cognitive resource analysis of middle school students’ understanding of energy flow and matter cycling in ecosystems. We discuss students’ resources that we uncovered through our analyses, highlighting how those that emerged through an ... Cite

Exploring visualization and tagging to manage big datasets for DBR: A modest proposal with significant implications

Conference Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences Icls · January 1, 2016 As design-based research (DBR) approaches increase in popularity, there is greater and greater need to invent database management systems that document the designs and phases of DBR projects as meaningful contexts for archival storage of large databanks th ... Cite

Designing for effective collaborative learning in high-needs rural classrooms

Conference Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences Icls · January 1, 2016 Orchestrating collaborative meaning making in classrooms can present a significant challenge to teachers, in particular, for teachers in under-resourced middle schools in rural areas. This paper reports on issues that arose during a prototype implementatio ... Cite