Creating Dynamic Digital Text for STEM Instruction

January 14, 2013

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction in schools and colleges still tends to be static. It uses print textbooks organized by topic, to be read and understood by students in a linear fashion. This contrasts with the rich interaction, navigation and visualization tools students use on the web and on mobile devices. Sadhana Puntambekar is designing the next generation of digital STEM content for school and college level education. She calls it ‘dynamic digital text.’ Given the rapid proliferation of affordable mobile technology, paper textbooks and their e-versions will soon be obsolete. This research will lead to digital text and corresponding pedagogy design based on sound theory and robust experimentation. 
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