COSMOS educational toolkit: using experimental wireless networking to enhance middle/high school STEM education
COSMOS educational toolkit: using experimental wireless networking to enhance middle/high school STEM education
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COSMOS 教育工具包：使用实验性无线网络增强初中/高中 STEM 教育
DOI：
10.1145/3431832.3431839
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Korakis, Thanasis
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作者：
Skrimponis, Panagiotis;Makris, Nikos;Rajguru, Sheila Borges;Cheng, Karen;Ostrometzky, Jonatan;Ford, Emily;Kostic, Zoran;Zussman, Gil;Korakis, Thanasis
本文重点介绍 COSMOS-Cloud 增强型开放软件定义的用于城市规模部署的移动无线测试平台的 K-12 教育活动。作为 NSF 高级无线研究平台 (PAWR) 计划的一部分，COSMOS 无线研究测试台正在西哈莱姆区（纽约市）部署。 COSMOS 的 K-12 教育方法有两个方面：(i) 创建一套创新且具体的方法/工具，允许使用与无线网络/物联网/云相关的现场实验来教授 STEM 科目；(ii) 增强 K-12 教师的专业发展 (PD)，并与他们合作为学生创建实践教育材料。 COSMOS 团队已经为初中和高中 STEM 教师成功开展了试点夏季项目，团队与教师合作，共同开发创新的现实世界实验，这些实验被组织为自动化和可重复的数学、科学和计算机科学实验室，供在课堂上使用。这些实验室在 COSMOS 教育工具包上运行，这是一个硬件和软件系统，提供各种预先安排的 K-12 教育实验室。该软件以与 COSMOS 测试台相同的操作理念执行和管理实验。具体来说，由于它是专为非技术初中和高中教师/学生使用而设计的，因此它为实验执行和结果可视化添加了易于使用的增强功能。这些实验室还得到符合下一代科学标准 (NGSS) 的教师/学生材料的支持。本文介绍了教师的 PD 计划、创建的 NGSS 课程以及为支持该计划而开发的硬件和软件系统。此外，它还对 PD 方法以及对 K-12 STEM 教育的预期影响进行了评估。当前的限制和未来的工作也包含在讨论部分。
This paper focuses on the K-12 educational activities of COSMOS-Cloud enhancedOpenSoftware definedMObile wireless testbed for city-Scale deployment. The COSMOS wireless reasearch testbed is being deployed in West Harlem (New York City) as part of the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) program. COSMOS' approach for K-12 education is twofold: (i) create an innovative and concrete set of methods/tools that allow teaching STEM subjects using live experiments related to wireless networks/IoT/cloud, and (ii) enhance the professional development (PD) of K-12 teachers and collaborate with them to create hands-on educational material for the students. The COSMOS team has already conducted successful pilot summer programs for middle and high school STEM teachers, where the team worked with the teachers and jointly developed innovative real-world experiments that were organized as automated and repeatable math, science, and computer science labs to be used in the classroom. The labs run on the COSMOS Educational Toolkit, a hardware and software system that offers a large variety of pre-orchestrated K-12 educational labs. The software executes and manages the experiments in the same operational philosophy as the COSMOS testbed. Specifically, since it is designed for use by non-technical middle and high school teachers/students, it adds easy-to-use enhancements to the experiments' execution and the results visualization. The labs are also supported by Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-compliant teacher/student material. This paper describes the teachers' PD program, the NGSS lessons created and the hardware and software system developed to support the initiative. Additionally, it provides an evaluation of the PD approach as well as the expected impact to K-12 STEM education. Current limitations and future work are also included as part of the discussion section.