The School-Home Science Connection: SHSC, Using TV-based Internet Technology to link School Science Projects to Home Activities

学校与家庭的科学连接：SHSC，利用基于电视的互联网技术将学校科学项目与家庭活动联系起来

• 批准号: 9729764
• 负责人: Elliot Soloway
• 金额: $ 9.85万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-15 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9729764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Home; Science; Connection; SHSC; Using

9729764 Soloway This SGER project will design, implement, and assess learning environments in which parents/guardians and children use TV-based Internet (i.e., the Web-TV commercial service) to engage in home science activities linked to science classroom curricula. For example, in the context of better understanding the biological basis of asthma (a major health problem in low socioeconomic status, urban communities), parents/guardians and their children can collect data twice daily on the child's lung capacity. They can then use the TV/Internet link to share this data with classmates, to receive analyses of this information on a longitudinal basis, to relate outcomes to current environmental conditions such as pollution, and to better comprehend theories about biology in the school curriculum. This study has three goals: 1) understanding how to create activities that encourage parents/guardians and their children to engage in serious scientific activities at home, 2) understanding how to better link specific school-based science curriculum units to home-based science activities, and 3) understanding how TV-based Internet technology can be used to support scientific inquiry activities by parents/guardians and children in home settings. As a pilot activity, the investigator is already working with four homes in which children have asthma, providing Web-TV service and prototype versions of learning materials. The proposed study would scale this initial effort into a one-year project linking a 7th grade classroom in an urban middle school to the homes of all children in that class. The project will develop and study four learning activities will be developed and studied, deriving design implications for researchers doing similar studies. The project will aid in understanding how consumer and entertainment technology can increase children's motivation and performance in science classes. This type of study is of great value for researchers in informal science education and in school-home linkages, as well as those concerned with improving the science knowledge of parents. ***

小行星9729764 该SGER项目将设计，实施和评估父母/监护人和儿童使用基于电视的互联网（即，网络电视商业服务）参与与科学课堂课程有关的家庭科学活动。例如，为了更好地了解哮喘（社会经济地位低下的城市社区的一个主要健康问题）的生物学基础，父母/监护人及其子女可以每天两次收集关于儿童肺活量的数据。 然后，他们可以使用电视/互联网链接与同学分享这些数据，接收对这些信息的纵向分析，将结果与当前的环境条件（如污染）联系起来，并更好地理解学校课程中的生物学理论。本研究有三个目标：1）了解如何创建活动，鼓励家长/监护人和他们的孩子在家里从事严肃的科学活动，2）了解如何更好地连接具体的校本科学课程单元，以家庭为基础的科学活动，和3）了解如何基于电视的互联网技术可以用来支持科学探究活动的家长/监护人和孩子在家里设置。 作为一项试点活动，调查人员已经与四个有哮喘儿童的家庭合作，提供网络电视服务和学习材料的原型版本。 这项拟议中的研究将把这一初步努力扩大到一个为期一年的项目，将一所城市中学的七年级教室与该班所有儿童的家庭联系起来。 该项目将开发和研究四个学习活动将被开发和研究，得出设计的影响，研究人员做类似的研究。该项目将有助于了解消费和娱乐技术如何提高儿童在科学课上的积极性和表现。 这种类型的研究是非常有价值的研究人员在非正规科学教育和学校-家庭的联系，以及那些关心提高家长的科学知识。 ***