Daigwade
The Daigwade project is a community-based effort with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. We are working with families to create place-based storytelling experiences that share and preserve the Tribe’s culture.
The Daigwade project (NSF Grant #1943630) is a community-based project with the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation. The Daigwade project seeks to engage families in the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation with the overarching goal to preserve and share culture with digital and non-digital technologies. We are developing family and community programming to teach culture, technology, science, and art. Please check out the project website for more information about this project: daigwade.org.
PARTNERS
PROJECT LEAD
Breanne Litts
TEAM
Kenden Quayle | Project Manager
Minah Nguyen
Lili Yan
Dallas Haws
AlLisia Dawkins
McKay Colleni
Collin Tso
Melissa Tehee
Christina Morgan
Megan Hamilton
Cultivating Connections
In partnership with Dr. Melissa Tehee (Psychology, USU) and her Tohi Lab, Dr. Litts and the LED Lab are working with Edith Bowen Laboratory School (K-6) to investigate how to collaboratively (re)design cross-cultural field experiences for sixth graders to effectively develop culturally competent citizen scholars. The key aim of the project is to cultivate connections across partners, cultures, and disciplines.
In partnership with Dr. Melissa Tehee (Psychology, USU) and her Tohi Lab, Dr. Litts and the LED Lab are working with Edith Bowen Laboratory School (K-6) to investigate how to collaboratively (re)design cross-cultural field experiences for sixth graders to effectively develop culturally competent citizen scholars. The key aim of the project is to cultivate connections across partners, cultures, and disciplines. This work is funded by USU’s Seed Program to Advance Research Collaborations and the Spencer Foundation.
PARTNERS
PROJECT LEADS
Melissa Tehee
Breanne Litts
TEAM
Lili Yan
Research Manager
Ella Olson
Project Manager
Stuart Baggaley
Erica Ficklin
Megan Hamilton
Chase Mortensen
Jennifer Jenkins
Nate Justis
Cedric Mannie
Collin Tso
Kenden Quayle
McKay Colleni
Devon Isaacs
Kameica Yazzie
Lili Yan
FUNDERS
We Got the Beat
We Got the Beat (WGB) is a project founded by Cedric Mannie and Kameica Yazzie in collaboration with Dr. Breanne Litts. WGB aims to impact young people’s perception of health through the use of computers with the aim of informing literature about health, health sciences, computer programming, and especially learning sciences.
We Got the Beat (WGB) is a project founded by Cedric Mannie and Kameica Yazzie in collaboration with Dr. Breanne Litts. WGB aims to impact young people’s perception of health through the use of computers with the aim of informing literature about health, health sciences, computer programming, and especially learning sciences.
PROJECT LEADS
Kameica Yazzie
Cedric Mannie
TEAM
Megan Hamilton
Breanne Litts
FUNDING
This project is funded, in part, by USU’s Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services and anonymous donors.
Culturally Responsive Making
Culturally Responsive Making: Developing High-Low Tech Maker Activities in Local and Mobile Spaces for Supporting American Indian Youth is a two-year, National Science Foundation (#1623404) funded project in collaboration with Arizona State University and the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this project is to develop culturally responsive making activities and makerspaces with two Indigenous communities, one in Utah and one in Arizona.
Culturally Responsive Making: Developing High-Low Tech Maker Activities in Local and Mobile Spaces for Supporting American Indian Youth is a National Science Foundation (#1623404) funded project in collaboration with Arizona State University and the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this project is to develop culturally responsive making activities and makerspaces with two Indigenous communities, one in Utah and one in Arizona. We are interested in how these spaces and activities impact youth, teacher, and community conceptions of and interest in STEM learning. For more information about this project, please visit the project website.
This video presents a paper from ICLS 2020, which covers a component of the overall grant work.
PROJECT CO-LEAD
Breanne Litts
TEAM
Kameica Yazzie
Megan Hamilton
Cedric Mannie
Chase Mortensen
