Fostering digital and scientific literacy: Learning through practice
Fostering digital and scientific literacy: Learning through practice
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培养数字和科学素养：通过实践学习
作者：
P. Silva;Lorna Heaton
尽管公众参与公民科学的工作迅速增加，但参与者通过参与学习什么以及如何学习的关注有限。本文使用玛丽-维克托林植物标本馆正在进行的一个数字化项目来探索成年志愿者的学习过程，并展示科学和数字文学是如何同时和社会地构建的。在标本馆藏品数字化的过程中，志愿者利用现有资源，包括数字工具和资源，并创建和分享他们自己的中介资源，从而促进今后的工作和加强非正式学习。个人目标--如获得新技能或扩展知识--与社区的目标相关联--即制作一个高质量的参考资料，供每个人在线使用。然而，志愿者是在实践中学习的，他们学到的教训超出了当地所处的环境，可能会对全球和未来产生影响。
Despite the rapidly growing body of work on public participation in citizen science, what and how participants learn by participating has received limited attention. This paper uses a digitization project underway at the Marie-Victorin Herbarium to explore the learning process of adult volunteers and show how scientific and digital literacies are constructed simultaneously and socially. In the process of digitizing the Herbarium’s collection, volunteers draw on existing resources, including digital tools and sources, as well as create and share their own intermediary resources, thereby facilitating future work and enhancing informal learning. Individual goals — such as acquiring new skills or extending knowledge — are connected to the goals of the community — the production of a quality reference that will be available to everyone online. Volunteers are learning by doing, however, the lessons they learn extend beyond their local, situated context and may have a global and future impact.