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Five-day e-textile-supported STEAM teacher PD camp with seven structured projects and one open-ended project

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Description

A five-day professional development program at a Turkish university, run as two camps for middle school science teachers, focused on "designing and developing STEAM projects using e-textile technology, with an emphasis on integrating art, design, and technology." It encompassed "seven structured e-textile projects" (badges, wristbands, necklaces, color-changing star clusters, light-sensing lighthouses, heat-sensing thermometers, color-sensing scarves) plus one open-ended project, progressing from serial and parallel circuits to sensors and Arduino programming, with hands-on projects integrating problem-based scenarios and engineering design stages adapted from Hynes et al. (2011). Five facilitators supported groups of two or three teachers.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Purposively selected teachers with little or no prior hands-on e-textile STEAM experience
  • Supply of e-textile materials, tools, and facilitator support throughout the program

Constraints

  • Evaluated with self-report post-surveys and a small, voluntary follow-up sample (5 completed surveys)

Target Learners

  • in-service middle school science teachers from rural and socioeconomically disadvantaged public schools

Learning Goals

  • electricity and circuitry concepts
  • STEAM project design
  • Arduino programming basics
  • interdisciplinary integration of art, design, and technology

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Mustafa Sat, Kursat Cagiltay. (2026). Weaving STEAM with threads: teacher professional development with e-textile projects. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10597-z
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title Five-day e-textile-supported STEAM teacher PD camp with seven structured projects and one open-ended project
description A five-day professional development program at a Turkish university, run as two camps for middle school science teachers, focused on "designing and developing STEAM projects using e-textile technology, with an emphasi...
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