A Digital Library for Middle Schools: Supporting Authentic Science Investigations

中学数字图书馆：支持真实的科学调查

• 批准号: 9554205
• 负责人: Elliot Soloway
• 金额: $ 151.17万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-10-01 至 2001-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9554205&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digital; Library; Middle; Schools; Supporting

Soloway 95-54205 The Middle Years Digital Library (MYDL) will be an extension of the University of Michigan's Digital Library (UMDL), an NSF/NASA/ARPA funded project. MYDL, via the Internet, will provide ready access to a broad range of information resources, from traditional books, magazines, and journals, to data sets, scientific instruments, computer-based research tools, and collaboration with peers and mentors. In addition, MYDL will feature tools to support students publishing their findings and tools to support teachers collaborating with fellow teachers. To insure accessibility, MYDL interfaces will be developed using Learner-Centered Design methodology. MYDL brings together, for the first time, a critical mass of diverse resource "in one place" with an accessible interface. MYDL is also a complementary, comprehensive plan of action to sustain innovation. Technology per se is not enough. To sustain innovation requires considerable resources and resourcefulness. We propose working with participating schools to: (1) develop, deploy, and redesign model curriculum through investigatory projects that make integral use of the MYDL, (2) integrate into the classroom instructional practices that support investigation-based science learning (3) work with teachers to change their attitudes, beliefs, and practices from a more traditional didactic pedagogy to a more investigatory-based pedagogy, and (4) evaluate, on an ongoing basis MYDL and its impact on teaching and learning. The UM Collaboratory for Science Education has significant experience in creating thriving, technology-based education innovations. We will leverage these experiences to build the Middle Years Digital Library. We will extend UMDL, thus, only incremental support is needed to tailor MYDL to middle-school students and increase the kinds of "collections" that are included. MYDL will provide a clear demonstration of the viability of electronic libraries and the extent to which such libraries will play a pivota l role in affording schools the opportunity to change and offer students and teachers the opportunity to develop a working science literacy.

索洛韦95-54205 Middle Years Digital Library（MYDL）将是密歇根大学数字图书馆（UMDL）的延伸，UMDL是NSF/NASA/ARPA资助的项目。 MYDL将通过互联网提供广泛的信息资源，从传统的书籍，杂志和期刊，到数据集，科学仪器，基于计算机的研究工具，以及与同行和导师的合作。 此外，MYDL还将提供支持学生发表研究结果的工具，以及支持教师与其他教师合作的工具。 为了确保可访问性，MYDL接口将使用以学习者为中心的设计方法开发。 MYDL第一次通过一个可访问的界面将大量不同的资源“集中在一个地方”。 MYDL也是一个补充性的，全面的行动计划，以维持创新。 技术本身是不够的。 持续创新需要大量资源和足智多谋。 我们建议与参与的学校合作：（1）通过综合利用MYDL的示范项目开发、部署和重新设计示范课程，（2）将支持基于调查的科学学习的教学实践融入课堂教学实践中，（3）与教师合作，改变他们的态度、信念和实践，从更传统的教学法转向更基于调查的教学法，及（4）持续评估MYDL及其对教与学的影响。 UM科学教育合作实验室在创造蓬勃发展的技术教育创新方面拥有丰富的经验。 我们将利用这些经验来建立中年数字图书馆。 我们将扩展UMDL，因此，只需要增加支持来为中学生量身定制MYDL，并增加所包含的“集合”的种类。 MYDL将清楚地展示电子图书馆的可行性，以及这些图书馆在为学校提供变革机会和为学生和教师提供发展实用科学素养的机会方面发挥的重要作用。