| Period | Activity |
|---|---|
| since 11/2022 | Research assistant at the Chair of Didactics in Technology, RPTU Kaiserslautern (Prof. Dr. Leo van Waveren) |
| 08/2018 - 12/2022 | Research assistant at the Chair of General Pedagogy with a focus on school development, TU Kaiserslautern (Prof. Dr. Mandy Schiefner-Rohs) |
| 10/2014 - 07/2018 | Studies at the TU Kaiserslautern: Integrative Social Science (M.A.); focus: politics, economics, ethics |
| 10/2010 - 09/2014 | Studies at the TU Kaiserslautern: Integrative Social Science (B.A.); focus: Political Science |
| Funding Period | Project | Project Name |
|---|---|---|
| 12/2026– 04/2026 | FirstSteps@RPTU | Experiencing Technology: Pneumatics, Manufacturing Processes, Environmental Monitoring Stations, and AR Experiments as a Summer Program |
| 09/2025– 08/2023 | MINT-ProNeD (BMBF) | MINT-ProNeD: Professional networks to promote adaptive, process-oriented, digitally supported innovations in STEM teacher education. Network 3: Future Innovation Hub |
| 12/2025 - 04/2025 | RPTUjunior (RPTU) | Technology in and around the makerspace. Pneumatics, PLCs, and environmental monitoring stations as a summer program |
| 12/2024– 06/2024 | RPTUjunior (RPTU) | Building, programming, and analyzing (environmental) sensors |
| 12/2023 - 11/2022 | LLL@U.EDU (MWG RLP) | FuLLL: Future Teaching and Learning Labs with a Special Focus on Digitalization |
| 12/2022 - 01/2022 | LLL@U.EDU (MWG RLP) | MeKoLLL: Media Literacy Teaching and Learning Labs with a Special Focus on Digitalization |
| 12/2021 - 07/2020 | Digitalization II (BMBF) | All is Data: The (Joint) Search for Insight in a Digitized Data World (Aid) |
| 06/2020 - 11/2018 | Research on the digital higher education (BMBF) | You(r) Study: Studying on Your Own Terms in the “Digital Age” |
| 06/2019 - 11/2018 | U.EDU (BMBF) | Connect2Reflect |
| 10/2018 - 08/2018 | Open Educational Resources (BMBF) | OER Labs: Jointly Training (Prospective) Teachers in OER |
2021
- Becker, M., Krein, U. & Schiefner-Rohs, M. (2021). '... that you can hold a mirror up to them': Metaphors in the discourse around data (in) school. MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 44 (Data-driven schools), pp. 73-91. DOI: 10.21240/mpaed/44/2021.10.29.X.
2020
- Becker, M., Riplinger, T. & Schiefner-Rohs, M. (2020). Hopes and disappointments of mutual expectations of teaching. Students' stubborn media behavior as a function of teaching design. In S. Hofhues, M. Schiefner Rohs, S. Aßmann & T. Brahm (Eds.). Students - Media - University. Insights into student media worlds (87-105). Münster: Waxmann. Available at: ResearchGate.
- Riplinger, T., Becker, M., Reder-Knerr, C., Layes C. & Adrian, S. (2020). Media action and the design of teaching. Implications from a student perspective. In S. Hofhues, M. Schiefner Rohs, S. Aßmann & T. Brahm (Eds.), Students - Media - University. Insights into student media worlds (221-227). Münster: Waxmann. Available at: ResearchGate.
2025
- Burkhart, J., Schäfer, P., Becker, M., & van Waveren, L. (2025). Job satisfaction and perceived training needs of teachers. Results of a needs assessment. 12th Conference of the Society for Empirical Educational Research (GEBF), Mannheim.
2024
- Burkhart, J., Becker, M., Schäfer, P., Ferner, S. & van Waveren, L. (2024). Needs assessments as a basis for the development of offers for teachers in technology. 9th JOTED Technology Didactics Symposium, Munich.
- Schäfer, P., Becker, M., Burkhart, J. & van Waveren, L. (2024). MINT-ProNeD - BBS technology. Jointly designed offers for teachers on adaptivity in the classroom. lernen:digital Kongress, Potsdam.
2025
- Becker, M. (2025). Teaching unit for high school students on data acquisition with a weather station. Poster at the 10th JOTED Technikdidaktisches Symposium, 09. - 10.10.2025, Schwäbisch Gmünd.
- Schäfer, P., Hornig, S. & Becker, M. (2025). Gender differences in technology readiness during a grammar school project week. Poster at the Gender and Diversity Research Day at RPTU, 27.05.2025, Landau.
2024
- Andres, J., Becker, M., Brechters, T., Burkhart, J., Schäfer, P., Spanier, M., van Waveren, L. & Thyssen C. (2024). MINT-ProNeD-RPTU. Poster at the market stand of the lernen:digital congress, 02.10.2024, Potsdam.
- Becker, M., Schäfer, P., Burkhart, J. & van Waveren, L. (2024). AR prototype from the Future Innovation Hub for adaptive support in the construction of pneumatic circuits. Poster at the market stand of the lernen:digital congress, 02.10.2024, Potsdam.
2020
- Becker, M. & Riplinger, T. (2020). Digitality expectation and networking. A reconstructive look at student media behavior. 49th Annual Conference DGHD. Berlin, Germany.
Workshop Opportunities for Educators
- November 8, 2024, Future Innovation Hub: An Insight into Technological Opportunities for the Classroom with a Focus on Teaching and Learning Videos, an event organized by the Pfalzmetall Foundation as part of its professional development program at RPTU in Kaiserslautern.
Various workshop offerings for students:
- July 8, 2026, “Drink Crate Detected!” Understanding and Applying Sensor Technology with Photoelectric Sensors. (Grades 3–6), workshop as part of the Wipotec Foundation’s student summer program at RPTU in Kaiserslautern.
- May 28, 2026, Count, Code, Marvel!, workshop as part of the MINT-mach-Pass, at RPTU Kaiserslautern.
- May 9, 2026, Weather Station – Sensebox, workshop as part of the MINT-mach-Pass, RPTU Kaiserslautern.
- February 18, 2026, Count, Code, Marvel! We’re programming a people counter. Workshop as part of the Wipotec Foundation’s Student Vacation Program, Kaiserslautern Garden Show.
- November 27, 2025, Count, Code, Marvel! We’re programming a people counter. A workshop offered as part of RPTU Junior/Children’s University
- October 8, 2025, Weather Station – SenseBox. A workshop offered as part of RPTU Junior
- October 6–7, 2025, Hacking School: Weather Station – SenseBox
- September 12, 2025, Weather Station – SenseBox. A workshop offered as part of MI(N)Tmachwelt at the Kaiserslautern Garden Show
- June 3, 2025, Adaptive Feedback for Pneumatics in Technology Classes and Vocational Schools. A workshop offered as part of iMedia
- May 17, 2025, Weather Station—SenseBox. A workshop offered as part of the MINTmachpass
- May 9, 2025, Discovering Innovative Teaching Methods: Sensors and Actuators in Biology and Technology. A workshop offered as part of “Nacht, die Wissen schafft”
- September 6, 2024, Building Parking Sensors. A workshop offered as part of the MI(N)Tmachwelt at the Kaiserslautern Garden Show
- June 25, 2024, The Technology Education Lab in Action. An event for prospective students as part of the RPTU’s 2024 College Information Day
- July 19, 2023, Controlling Drones with Software and Pattern Recognition. A workshop for 7th–12th-grade students at Rittersberg-Gymnasium KL at RPTU in the Future Teaching and Learning Lab.
- May 23, 2023, Flying and Programming Drones. A workshop for prospective students as part of the RPTU’s 2023 College Information Day.
- April 22, 2023: Build your own parking sensor. A workshop offered as part of the MI(N)T-Machwelt at the Kaiserslautern Garden Show.