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Education
1991: B.Sc.H., Biology, Queens University
1993: B.Ed., Junior and Intermediate Science Education,
University of Toronto
1999: M.A., Science Education, University of Toronto
2005: Ph.D., Science Education, University of Toronto
Post-Doctoral Fellow: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Areas of Expertise
Science education
Educational technologies
Complex systems
Professional Biography
After working as a science teacher and department head of
science for 6 years with the Toronto District School Board, Dr. Yoon received
her doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2005. Her doctoral work focused
on identifying social and cognitive influences on decision-making about socioscientific
issues. She developed an evolutionary complex systems framework for the
purposes of harnessing complex behavior and thinking in students. From 2003 to
2005, Dr. Yoon worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in the Teacher Education Program, where she managed a joint Santa
Fe Institute-MIT NSF-funded ITEST project aimed at improving information
technology skills among middle and secondary school teachers and students
through the use of two computational complex systems modeling tools: StarLogo
and Participatory Simulations.
Research Interests and Current Projects
Building on both her doctoral and post-doctoral work, Dr.
Yoon is pursuing several lines of research including investigating
curricular
applications and learning outcomes of using social network graphs in
decision-making about socioscientific issues, understanding the
dynamics of
copying mechanisms (memetic processes) in learning environments,
applying
complex systems processes in teacher professional development programs,
surveying preservice and inservice teacher knowledge of complex
systems, and
understanding affordances and constraints to access and retention of
K-12 and
higher education students in STEM fields of study. Dr. Yoon is the PI
of two currently funded National Science Foundation projects,
ITEST-Nano, http://www.gse.upenn.edu/itest and SPARK!,
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/spark.
Courses Taught
EDUC 545 Socio-cognitive Issues in Technology and Learning
EDUC 616 Masters Foundations of Teaching and Learning
EDUC 664 Doctoral Foundations of Teaching and Learning
EDUC 627 Teaching Middle and Secondary School Science
EDUC 657 Special Topics in Secondary Science Educatio
Selected Publications
Yoon, S. (in press). Using Memes and Memetic Processes to Explain
Social and Conceptual Influences on Student Understanding about Complex
Socio-Scientific Issues. Journal of Research in Science Teaching.
Yoon, S. (2008). An evolutionary approach to harnessing complex systems thinking in the science and technology classroom. International Journal of Science Education. 30(1), 1-32.
Yoon, S. & Klopfer, E. (2006). Feedback (F) Fueling
Adaptation (A) Network Growth (N) and Self-Organization (S): A Complex Systems
Design and Evaluation Approach to Professional Development. Journal of Science
Education and Technology, 15(5-6), 353-366
Yoon, S., Pedretti, E., Bencze, L., Hewitt, J., Perris, K.
& Van Oostveen, R. (2006). Improving elementary preservice science
teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs through the use of cases and case-methods.
Journal of Science Teacher Education, 17(2), 1-21.
Klopfer, E. & Yoon, S. (2005). Developing games and
simulations for today and tomorrow's tech savvy youth. Tech Trends, 49(3),
33-41.
Klopfer, E. Yoon, S. & Perry, J. (2005). Using palm
technology in Participatory Simulations of complex systems: A new take on
ubiquitous and accessible mobile computing. Journal of Science Education and
Technology, 14(3), 285-298
Klopfer, E., Yoon, S. Um, T. (2005). Teaching complex
dynamic systems to young students with StarLogo. Journal of Computers in
Mathematics and Science Teaching, 24(2), 157-178. (http://dl.aace.org/16982)
Klopfer, E., Yoon, S., Rivas, L. (2004). Comparative
analysis of Palm and wearable computers for Participatory Simulations. Journal
of Computer Assisted Learning, 20, 347-359
Bencze, L., Hewitt, J., Pedretti, E., Yoon, S., Perris, K.
& Van Oostveen, R. (2003). Science-specialist student-teachers consider
promoting technological design projects: Contributions of multi-media case
methods. Research in Science Education, 33, 163-187
Yoon, S. (2002). Children's preconceptions of human-animal
relationships: Dispositions towards a humane consciousness and implications for
curriculum and instruction. The Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and
Technology Education, 2(4), 449-466
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