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Aerial Drone: an Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Minority High School Students in the U.S.

verfasst von: Jay Bhuyan, Fan Wu, Cassandra Thomas, Kai Koong, Jung Won Hur, Chih-hsuan Wang

Erschienen in: TechTrends | Ausgabe 6/2020

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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, technology-enriched 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.

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Titel: Aerial Drone: an Effective Tool to Teach Information Technology and Cybersecurity through Project Based Learning to Minority High School Students in the U.S.
verfasst von: Jay Bhuyan
Fan Wu
Cassandra Thomas
Kai Koong
Jung Won Hur
Chih-hsuan Wang
Publikationsdatum: 22.04.2020
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: TechTrends / Ausgabe 6/2020
Print ISSN: 8756-3894
Elektronische ISSN: 1559-7075
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7

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