All Outputs (13)

What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War (2022)
Conference Proceeding

The Nigerian Civil War is a key that is often unspoken of in public or taught in schools, despite its aftermath still being felt decades later in Nigerian society. In this paper, we make a case for how a digital museum offers room to reflect, discuss... Read More about What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War.

Green Chemistry in the Third Age: Engaging Older Adults in Learning about Sustainability (2021)
Conference Proceeding

The learning sciences takes a broad interest in learning across lifespans. Yet, there is a lack of research on the learning of older adults and how they engage with pivotal socio-scientific issues. This paper reports on a series of events designed to... Read More about Green Chemistry in the Third Age: Engaging Older Adults in Learning about Sustainability.

Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy (2020)
Journal Article

Confronting issues of global climate change will require creative approaches to energy consumption across a range of human activities. This design case looks at the evolution of a physical/digital hybrid board game that we created to encourage famili... Read More about Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy.

An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project (2019)
Conference Proceeding

This poster explores how learners engage in "maker" activities when collaborating and how participation can become more inclusive when framing activities in order to connect learners with children in their own community. We describe the first iterati... Read More about An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project.

Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davis, P. (2018). Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science.

This paper focuses on how the personal epistemologies of scientists and science communicators shape their practices and interact with one another in the construction of popular science news. I present data from observations and interviews with scient... Read More about Competing epistemologies in the construction of popular science.

Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davis, P. (2018). Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication.

In this paper I study scientists, reporters, and news readers as they produce and/or interpret scientific texts. Imagining all of these actors as science learners allows me to compare across their individual understandings to follow ideas through the... Read More about Transporting knowledge: a case study of meaning making on the pathways of science communication.

Problem solving in engineering education and professional engineering work (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vinson, A., Davis, P., & Stevens, R. (2017). Problem solving in engineering education and professional engineering work.

Informal mentorship of new engineers in the workplace (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davis, P., Vinson, A., & Stevens, R. (2017). Informal mentorship of new engineers in the workplace.

Despite the long history of apprenticeship in engineering (Wilson, 1965), little is understood about the transition from school to work in the modern engineering workforce. How do new engineers gain experience and knowledge while also gaining trust a... Read More about Informal mentorship of new engineers in the workplace.

Learning to anticipate the user in professional engineering work (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vinson, A., Davis, P., & Stevens, R. (2017). Learning to anticipate the user in professional engineering work.

Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Banerjee, A., Horn, M. S., & Davis, P. (2016). Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption.

We present Invasion of the Energy Monsters, a board game that attempts to highlight the role of family practices in household energy consumption. While household energy management activities — such as controlling heating and cooling systems — tend to... Read More about Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption.

The use of cognitive clinical interviews to explore learning from video game play (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holbert, N., Russ, R. S., & Davis, P. (2015). The use of cognitive clinical interviews to explore learning from video game play.

As research about the learning that results when children play video games becomes more popular, questions arise about what methodological and analytical tools are most appropriate to access and document this learning. Thus far, researchers have most... Read More about The use of cognitive clinical interviews to explore learning from video game play.

“Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, P., Horn, M. S., Block, F., Phillips, B., Evans, E. M., Diamond, J., & Shen, C. (2015). “Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 10(1), 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-015-9209-z

In this paper we present a qualitative analysis of natural history museum visitor interaction around a multi-touch tabletop exhibit called DeepTree that we designed around concepts of evolution and common descent. DeepTree combines several large scie... Read More about “Whoa! We’re going deep in the trees!”: Patterns of collaboration around an interactive information visualization exhibit.

Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions (2015)
Journal Article
Davis, P., & Russ, R. S. (2015). Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 52(2), https://doi.org/10.1002/tea.21189

The fields of science education and science communication share the overarching goal of helping non-experts and non-members of the professional science community develop knowledge of the content and processes of scientific research. However, the spec... Read More about Dynamic framing in the communication of scientific research: texts and interactions.