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Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences

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Science and Mathematics Education and Science and Technology Studies

Present	Doctoral Student, Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences, Utah State University ‐ Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences
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Articles (12)

A Youth Maker's Persistence with Laser Cutting

Student Research Symposium (2017)

Youth maker spaces are promoted as places for getting children engaged and interested in STEM content, at times as a ...

Making her way, One youth’s path to well-developed interest ...

Expanding Apprenticeship (2017)

Ryan Cain, A. Phillips and Victor R. Lee

Measuring electrodermal activity to capture engagement in an afterschool maker ...

FabLearn 2016: Conference on Creativity and Fabrication (2016)

Ryan Cain and Victor R. Lee

In this paper, we describe a new approach for exploring individual participants' engagement in youth maker activities. Participants were outfitted ...

Wearing their feelings on their sleeves? Wearable technology and the ...

International Society of the Learning Sciences (2016)

Victor R. Lee and Ryan Cain

We seek to jumpstart a program whose long-term goal is to advance a more nuanced and encompassing understanding of STEM ...

Opportunistic Uses of the Traditional School Day Through Student Examination ...

Interaction Design and Children (2015)

Victor R. Lee, Joel R. Drake, Ryan Cain and Jeffrey L. Thayne

In large part due to the highly prescribed nature of the typical school day for children, efforts to design new ...

Grassroots or returning to one’s roots? Unpacking the inception ...

FabLearn 2015 (2015)

Victor R Lee, Whitney L King and Ryan Cain

In this paper, we describe the individuals and factors contributing to the emergence of a community makerspace in a small ...

Opportunistic Uses of the Traditional School Day Through Student Examination ...

Proceedings of IDC 2015 (2015)

Victor R Lee, Joel Drake and Ryan Cain

In large part due to the highly prescribed nature of the typical school day for children, efforts to design new ...

Minding design missteps

Science and Children (2013)

David Crismond, Laura Gellert, Ryan Cain and Shequana Wright

The "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) (Achieve Inc. 2013) asks teachers to give engineering design equal standing with scientific inquiry ...

Geotechnical engineering in US elementary schools

European Journal of Engineering (2013)

Eduardo Alfonso Suescum-Florez, Magued Iskander, Vikram Kapila and Ryan Cain

This paper reports on the results of several geotechnical engineering-related science activities conducted with elementary-school students. Activities presented include soil ...

Delivering geotechnical engineering to elementary school children

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Student Research (2013)

Eduardo Alfonso Suescum-Florez, Magued Iskander, Ryan Cain and Vikram Kapila

The American educational system must provide an ever-increasing number of technology workers for the U.S. to maintain its leadership position ...

Bringing soil mechanics to elementary schools

120th Annual Conference and Exposition (2013)

Eduardo Alfonso Suescum-Florez, Ryan Cain, Vikram Kapila and Magued G. Iskander

Taking engineering design out for a spin

Science and Children (2013)

David Crismond, Mark Soobyiah and Ryan Cain

This article highlights what inquiry and design have in common, and what makes engineering design uniquely different from inquiry. A ...

Contribution to Book

From Wearing to Wondering: Treating Wearable Activity Trackers as Objects ...

Optimizing STEM Education With Advanced ICTs and Simulations (2017)

Joel R. Drake, Ryan Cain and Victor R. Lee

Wearable technologies represent a rapidly expanding category of consumer information and communications technologies. From smartwatches to activity tracking devices, wearables ...

Contribution to Book

From Wearing to Wondering: Treating Wearable Activity Trackers as Objects ...

Optimizing STEM Education With Advanced ICT's and Simulations (2017)

Joel R. Drake, Ryan Cain and Victor R. Lee

Wearable technologies represent a rapidly expanding category of consumer information and communications technologies. From smartwatches to activity tracking devices, wearables ...

Grassroots or returning to one’s roots? Unpacking the inception ...

FabLearn 2015 (2015)

Victor R. Lee, Whitney L. King and Ryan Cain

In this paper, we describe the individuals and factors contributing to the emergence of a community makerspace in a small ...