A Community Learns On-Line: Planning Activities to Explore the Use of Interactive Cable for Education

9454758 Zozma SRI国际的建议是提供为期一年的规划赠款，在此期间，SRI将与其合作伙伴--维亚康姆、卡斯特罗谷联合学区和卡斯特罗谷社区--合作：(1)确定可以与维亚康姆试验性互动有线电视系统提供的教育产品和服务相匹配的需求；(2)明确该团队在随后几年将开展的产品开发、传播和评估活动。这项研究的规划重点将是使用维亚康姆的卡斯特罗谷实验电缆系统作为试验台，以开发使用互动电缆支持教育改革的模型，开发产品和工具，评估该系统对家庭和课堂学习的长期影响，以及评估通过互动电缆提供教育产品和服务的可持续性。SRI建议：确定卡斯特罗山谷三类消费者当前和未来的教育和学习需求：学生；学区教师、校长和行政人员；以及家长和其他社区用户。确定维亚康姆系统提供的技术进步与这些教育和学习需求之间的预期匹配。通过系统的分析，明确(1)符合消费者需求的教育产品和服务，(2)符合维亚康姆对社区的总体使命，(3)可持续发展。随着时间的推移，制定有效实施教育产品和服务的策略，包括就费率结构问题提出初步建议。这些成果将通过一系列活动实现，包括需求评估、相关文献回顾和为期两天的创新探索研讨会。在Workshop期间，大约20名参与者--包括来自卡斯特罗山谷学校、社区和维亚康姆的人--将通过一系列研讨会练习，重点关注需求评估指出的需求，并自由地产生想法。然后，该小组将把这套想法转化为一组较小的可用和结构化的想法和概念，并最终归结为少数可行的、有用的教育产品和服务的具体想法。该项目的产品将包括文献搜索结果、创新搜索工作簿、创新搜索结果、项目活动总结报告以及项目第二阶段将要开展的工作的详细计划。该计划将说明SRI计划如何探索该网络在支持教育改革和创新方面的作用，并评估其对课堂、家庭和社区学习模式的影响。

9454758 Zozma SRI International's proposal is for a 1-year planning grant, during which time SRI will work collaboratively with its partners - Viacom, the Castro Valley Unified School District, and the Castro Valley, community - to (1) identify needs that can be matched to educational products and services that can be delivered through Viacom's experimental interactive cable system, and (2) to specify product development, dissemination, and evaluation activities to be undertaken by the team in subsequent years. The study's planning focus will be on the use of Viacom's Castro Valley experimental cable system as a test bed for developing models for using interactive cable to support education reform, for developing products and tools, for evaluating the long-term impact of the system on home and classroom learning, and for assessing the sustainability of providing educational products and services through interactive cable. SRI proposes: To determine the current and future educational and learning needs of three sets of consumers in Castro Valley: students; school district teachers, principals, and administrators; and parents and other community users. To identify prospective matches between technological advances offered by the Viacom system and those educational and learning needs. Through systematic analyses, to specify educational products and services that (1) match the needs of the consumers, (2) are in accord with Viacom's overall mission to the community, and (3) are sustainable. To develop strategies for effective implementation of educational products and services over time, including preliminary recommendations on rate structure issues. These outcomes will be achieved through a series of activities including a needs assessment, a review of relevant literature, and a 2-day Innovation Search Workshop. During the w orkshop approximately 20 participants - including persons from Castro Valley schools, the community, and Viacom - will, through a series of workshop exercises, focus on the needs indicated by the needs assessment, and freely generate ideas. The set of ideas will then be converted by the group into a smaller set of usable and structured ideas and concepts and finally reduced to a small number of concrete ideas for viable, useful educational products and services. Products from the project will include the results of the literature search, the Innovation Search Workbook, the innovation search results, a summary report of project activities, and a detailed plan for the work to be undertaken in Phase 2 of the project. The plan will include a description on how SRI proposes to explore the role of the network in support of educational reform and innovation and to assess its impacts on classroom, home, and community learning patterns.