WGIDPO: Imagination Place

WGIDPO：想象力之地

• 批准号: 9714749
• 负责人: Dorothy Bennett
• 金额: $ 160.2万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-01-15 至 2002-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9714749&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WGIDPO; Imagination; Place

EDC's Center for Children and Technology, in collaboration with commercial web developer MaMaMedia Inc., and Libraries for the Future, has proposed an intensive three-year project to develop Imagination Place! - an interactive on-line design space that will invite girls ages 8-14 to think and act as designers of technology, not just users. Past research has shown that by engaging girls in collaborative design, new ways of "seeing" and thinking about technology's role and importance in their lives become possible. Imagination Place! will be crafted to involve girls as shapers and makers of technologies and to promote technological fluency. The intent is to construct an on- line design space that will provide powerful pathways for girls into the world of engineering. Imagination Place! will be a highly interactive Internet- based environment where girls' ideas and visions for the future of technology can be realized and grown. Specifically, Imagination Place! will enable girls to (1) engage in discovery-based activities that pique curiosity and critical awareness about familiar technologies; (2) create inventions that have personal meaning; (3) share design ideas and concerns with peer mentors; (4) interact with real-world designers and engineers around short-term design-based projects; and (5) offer resources and design- related activities for parents and informal educators. Building on a strong foundation of research around gender and technology, EDC's Center for Children and Technology brings to the project extensive knowledge about design-based learning activities that are engaging for girls. CCT's prior work has led to the development of successful strategies for supporting human collaboration and interaction on-line among young women and engineers. The conceptual design of all activities and spaces within Imagination Place! will build upon this work. While designed with girls' interests in mind, Imagination Place! will also be relevant to diverse populations of 8-14 year- old children in home, school, and informal settings.

EDC的儿童与技术中心与商业网站开发商MaMaMedia Inc.和未来图书馆合作，提出了一个为期三年的密集项目，开发Imagination Place！--一个互动的在线设计空间，将邀请8-14岁的女孩思考并充当技术设计师，而不仅仅是用户。过去的研究表明，通过让女孩参与协作设计，“看”和思考科技在她们生活中的作用和重要性的新方式成为可能。想象之地！将精心设计，让女孩成为技术的塑造者和制造者，并促进技术的流畅性。其目的是构建一个在线设计空间，为女孩进入工程世界提供强大的途径。想象之地！将是一个基于互联网的高度互动的环境，女孩们可以在其中实现和成长对技术未来的想法和愿景。具体地说，想象力之地！将使女孩能够(1)参与基于发现的活动，激发对熟悉技术的好奇心和批判性意识；(2)创造具有个人意义的发明；(3)与同行导师分享设计想法和关注的问题；(4)围绕基于设计的短期项目与现实世界的设计师和工程师互动；以及(5)为父母和非正式教育工作者提供资源和与设计相关的活动。在围绕性别和技术的研究的坚实基础上，EDC儿童和技术中心为该项目带来了关于吸引女孩的基于设计的学习活动的广泛知识。有条件现金转移技术先前的工作导致制定了成功的战略，以支持青年妇女和工程师之间的在线协作和互动。想象空间内所有活动和空间的概念设计！将在这项工作的基础上再接再厉。在设计时考虑到女孩的兴趣，想象力之地！也将与家庭、学校和非正式环境中8-14岁儿童的不同人口有关。