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What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Aduro, J., & Davis, P. (2022). What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War.

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
Davis, P. (2021). Green Chemistry in the Third Age: Engaging Older Adults in Learning about Sustainability. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS 2021) (1051-1052)

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.

An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Aleman, E., & Davis, P. (2019). An Exploration of Female Engagement and Collaboration: The Bricks and Bits Maker Project. In K. Lund, G. P. Niccolai, E. Lavoué, C. Hmelo-Silver, G. Gweon, & M. Baker (Eds.), A Wide Lens: Combining Embodied, Enactive, Extended, and Embedded Learning in Collaborative Settings: 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference Proceedings: Volume 2 (905-906)

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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.

Informal mentorship of new engineers in the workplace (2017)
Conference Proceeding
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.

Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption (2016)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.