Creating Learning Scaffolds for Engineering Design Using Concept Catalyst
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| author | Singh, Madhuri Mansi, Gennie Riedl, Mark Owen |
| author_facet | Singh, Madhuri Mansi, Gennie Riedl, Mark Owen |
| contents | K-12 teachers employ Engineering Design Challenges to help students learn about the Engineering Design Process hands-on. They use techniques like hard scaffolding questions to guide the students as they think through the different stages of the engineering design process. While useful, the creation of these questions adds to the teacher's preparation time for their classes. Concept Catalyst uses Large Language Models to assist teachers with the rapid creation of scaffold questions for engineering design challenges. Unlike open-ended chat, Concept Catalyst uses LLMs to summarize and decompose an engineering design challenge into the concepts that students will engage with, allow the teacher to visually manipulate and link related concepts, and to propose scaffolding questions for the teacher to modify or accept. |
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| spellingShingle | Creating Learning Scaffolds for Engineering Design Using Concept Catalyst Singh, Madhuri Mansi, Gennie Riedl, Mark Owen Human-Computer Interaction K-12 teachers employ Engineering Design Challenges to help students learn about the Engineering Design Process hands-on. They use techniques like hard scaffolding questions to guide the students as they think through the different stages of the engineering design process. While useful, the creation of these questions adds to the teacher's preparation time for their classes. Concept Catalyst uses Large Language Models to assist teachers with the rapid creation of scaffold questions for engineering design challenges. Unlike open-ended chat, Concept Catalyst uses LLMs to summarize and decompose an engineering design challenge into the concepts that students will engage with, allow the teacher to visually manipulate and link related concepts, and to propose scaffolding questions for the teacher to modify or accept. |
| title | Creating Learning Scaffolds for Engineering Design Using Concept Catalyst |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20511 |