Learning and Intelligent Systems: Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools

9720383戈麦斯该项目由学习和智能系统(LIS)倡议提供资金。城市学校学习技术中心将帮助城市学校社区将先进的教与学技术与其教育改革计划相结合。该中心的目标是帮助这些技术在科学课程和学习经验的常规组成部分中普及。该中心是芝加哥和底特律公立学校以及西北大学和密歇根大学的教育和技术研究人员的合作伙伴。该中心的前提是，城市学校是形成和评估由技术支持的新的组织和教学实践以及优化这种支持的技术的一个具有挑战性和重要的环境。芝加哥和底特律的学校目前正在制定和实施新的课程框架、专业发展的新标准和做法以及支持课堂教学的新的社区结构。该中心将利用这些努力以及西北大学和密歇根大学的研究，开发基于科学实践、建模和模拟、科学可视化以及计算机支持的协作工具的科学学习模式，以丰富城市学校。该中心将鼓励学校为学习技术创造具有挑战性的实施，并支持学校在这方面的努力。教师和研究人员团队将努力了解如何使新技术在全国各地的城市和非城市社区发挥作用。中心努力的结果将是新的技术和改进的学校组织，这些组织的结构更好，以促进采用新技术和严格的新科学课程。

9720383 Gomez This project is being funded through the Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) Initiative. The Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools will help urban school communities integrate advanced technologies for teaching and learning with their education reform plans. The goal of the Center is to help these technologies become pervasive in science curricula and routine components of the learning experience. The Center is a partnership among the Chicago and Detroit Public Schools, and education and technology researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. The Center's premise is that urban schools represent a challenging and important setting for shaping and assessing new organizational and teaching practices supported by technology, and the technologies that optimize such support. Schools in Chicago and Detroit are currently developing and implementing new curriculum frameworks, new standards and practices for professional development, and new community-based structures that support teaching and learning in classrooms. The Center will capitalize on these efforts and on research at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan to develop models of science learning based on science practice, modeling and simulation, scientific visualization, and tools for computer-supported collaboration that can enrich urban schools. The Center will encourage schools to create challenging implementations for learning technologies, and support the schools in such endeavors.. Teams of teachers and researchers will work to understand how to make new technologies work in urban and non-urban communities across the nation. The result of the Center's efforts will be new technologies, and improved school organizations that are better structured to facilitate the adoption of new technology and rigorous, new science curricula.