Design Thinking Institute

A multidisciplinary research team of mathematics and science education, cybersecurity, educational technology, motivation, and design thinking experts will develop a design-thinking-informed framework to support teachers integration of cybersecurity into mathematics and science lessons.

Year 1 Activities

The project team implemented the framework and professional development with 17 4th and 5th grade teachers to collaboratively develop and test exemplar cybersecurity-infused mathematics and science scenarios, studying teachers knowledge and self-efficacy in parallel via a mixed-methods use study.

Year 2 Activities

The project will conduct an experimental study to scale the approach with 60 additional 4th and 5th grade teachers (30 teachers in the experimental group and 30 teachers in the control group) and their students to measure the impacts of the program on teachers cybersecurity knowledge and self-efficacy as well as students cybersecurity knowledge.