Technology Integration and Transformation in STEM Classrooms

Christie Martin is an Associate professor in the Instruction and Teacher Education Department of the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Dr. Martin teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in elementary education and research. Her research focuses on content area literacy in mathematics and science.(20e7fd7a-e342-4fa1-91f1-c7729084a90e) Bridget Miller is originally from Saratoga Springs in upstate New York, and relocated to the Midwest where she attended Indiana and Purdue Universities. With a passion for teaching all students, Miller has worked in the field with a range of diverse populations, from teaching developmental kindergarten, to Special Education with students with low incidence disabilities. Miller teaches for the Early Childhood Program here at the University of South Carolina focusing on Science Education for young children. Her research investigates the integration of commercial technologies such as tablet computers and their use in the STEM classroom to support instructional objectives in authentic and meaningful ways. Her recent studies focused on the use of electronic notebooks on iPads for students with cognitive disabilities to access, communicate, and be assessed in STEM curriculum. Now this is expanding with the use of e-notebooks for younger students as they can scaffold and support students through science inquiry and engineering design processes. (d253210b-a0a1-41d2-9cfa-413eb686d818) Drew Polly is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research agenda focuses on examining how to support the implementation of technology and standards-based pedagogies. More information can be found at: http://education.uncc.edu/abpolly .