She wants teachers to know that gaming can change students’ lives.“Every time a group comes in, they’re excited to learn, and I’m excited to teach,” she says. She even switched her doctoral dissertation topic to game-based learning. Initially, Ebri - who is also a doctoral student - didn’t consider herself a gamer, but when she had the opportunity to lead the Minecraft lab at DCPS, she took a chance.
Schools need to really understand the families they serve and develop programming that aligns with their needs, values and everyday practices.” Minecraft Lab Brings Excitement to Math, Science and Coding “In my own research, I realized the key to educational success is engaging families. “There are issues such as systemic racism that lead to inequities in education,” she says. As an undergraduate engineering student at UM-Dearborn, she didn’t see as many Black colleagues as she had hoped. Getting Black students more involved in STEM programs is a critical step in narrowing the achievement gap - along with disparities in career readiness and salaries - that has been in place for decades, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.Ī 2021 Pew Research Center report notes that Black students earned only 7 percent of STEM bachelor’s degrees in 2018, and a post-pandemic analysis by McKinsey found that in math, “students in majority-Black schools are now 12 months behind their peers in majority-white schools.”ĭeLean Tolbert Smith, an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, experienced this gap firsthand.
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