SBIR PHASE I: Kidcode: Software for Young Children's Exploration of Symbolic Representation

SBIR 第一阶段：Kidcode：用于幼儿探索符号表示的软件

• 批准号: 9561725
• 负责人: Michelle Baker
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Intellinet Inc New York
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9561725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; PHASE; Kidcode; Software; Young

9561725 Baker This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project will conduct a formative evaluation to design and implement prototype software that allows children in the age range 5-7 years to explore symbolic representations in a variety of domains by developing codes and coded representations of text, pictures, and animations. The software, Kidcode, is intended to supplement the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) curriculum standards by focusing on mathematical representation as an act of communication. Whereas the NCTM approach takes concrete experience with real objects as its starting point and gradually develops cognitive links to abstract representations, the software proposed here would encourage children to manipulate and explore symbolic representations for the purposes of communication. The pedagogical objective of the proposed software is to help young children develop an understanding of symbolic representation in many of its manifestations through experiences creating codes and decoding the communications of their peers. Educators often recommend that phonetics be taught alongside invented spelling and other whole language techniques for reading. Similarly, fostering exploration of symbolic representations as part of a mathematics curriculum based on the NCTM standards is likely to lead to a deeper understanding of the linkages between concrete activities and the symbolic representations used in NCTM style exercises. Such an understanding will allow children to more readily develop the capacity for using mathematical languages to model the real world. Moreover, because symbolic representations are the foundation for language development in all of its forms, the educational software to be develop will offer opportunities for children to practice reading and writing skills and so see mathematics as a descriptive language in analogy to spoken or written English. The Kidcode software has the potential to become an important additional resource avail able to support the mathematics curriculum in elementary and preschools. Moreover, because use of symbolic representations cuts across the language arts and mathematics curricula, it could become an essential element in the software libraries of these schools. In addition, the objective of the project is to design software that is intrinsically interesting to children so that they choose to use it on their own. If successful, Intellinet, Inc. will develop the software for the rapidly growing market for educational software for the home, thus playing an important broad role in the support of mathematical learning of young children.

小行星9561725 这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将进行形成性评估，以设计和实施原型软件，使5-7岁的儿童能够通过开发文本，图片和动画的代码和编码表示来探索各种领域的符号表示。 该软件，Kidcode，旨在补充国家理事会的数学教师（NCTM）课程标准，重点是数学表示作为一种交流行为。 而NCTM的方法采取具体的经验与真实的对象作为其出发点，并逐步发展的认知联系，抽象的表示，这里提出的软件将鼓励儿童操纵和探索符号表示的沟通的目的。 拟议的软件的教学目标是帮助幼儿通过创造代码和解码同龄人的通信的经验，在其许多表现形式的符号表示的理解。 教育工作者经常建议，语音学应该与发明的拼写和其他用于阅读的整体语言技巧一起教授。 同样，促进探索的象征性表示的基础上NCTM标准的数学课程的一部分，可能会导致具体的活动和NCTM风格的练习中使用的象征性表示之间的联系更深入的理解。 这样的理解将使儿童更容易发展使用数学语言来模拟真实的世界的能力。 此外，由于符号表征是各种形式语言发展的基础，因此，要开发的教育软件将为儿童提供练习阅读和写作技能的机会，并将数学视为类似于口语或书面英语的描述性语言。 Kidcode软件有可能成为一个重要的额外资源，能够支持小学和学前班的数学课程。 此外，由于符号表示的使用贯穿于语言艺术和数学课程，它可能成为这些学校软件库中的一个重要元素。 此外，该项目的目标是设计儿童本身感兴趣的软件，以便他们自己选择使用。 如果成功，Intelinet，Inc.将开发软件的快速增长的市场教育软件的家庭，从而发挥了重要的广泛作用，在支持数学学习的幼儿。