Enhancing Use of Data in Education: Bridging the Scientific and Educational Communities

加强数据在教育中的使用项目的总体目标是通过一系列年度数据教育讲习班，将地球系统科学研究与教育结合起来。 项目执行人将在科学、技术和教育界广泛开展工作，将讲习班参与者召集成小组，以了解其他群体的数据使用需求和能力，并开发教育模块，通过有效的实例指导教师和学生使用数据和工具。 这一努力的成果将最终使地球科学数据、访问和分析这些数据的技术以及便于教育界访问和使用这些数据和工具的教育模块成为可能。这些资源将通过数字图书馆提供，如地球科学信息合作伙伴联合会的地球信息交换，国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）和地球系统教育数字图书馆（DLESE）。 该项目将促进研究和教育的积极整合，汇集一个专业多样化的社区，包括数据提供者、工具开发者、科学家、课程开发者和教育工作者，目的是：1）相互通报他们的数据使用需求和能力，2）为教育模块的开发贡献他们的专业知识（地球探索工具书中的一章），其中包括研究质量的地球科学数据集和数据分析工具，以及3）与专业多样的同事建立持续的关系。作为这一项目的成果而完成的《地球探索工具手册》章节将提供给广大教育界。 此外，作为地球探索工具书收藏的一部分，这些章节将在一个单独资助的教师专业发展计划中展出。这将扩大他们的特色数据和工具的使用，全国各地的教师和学生。 第二，讲习班的参加者将与他们以前不会遇到的同事建立新的伙伴关系，这将大大提高他们将研究和教育纳入自己的专业领域的能力，并提高他们与其他专业不同的社区接触的能力。

The overarching goal of the Enhancing the Use of Data in Education project is to integrate Earth system science research and education through a series of yearly Data in Education Workshops. The PIs will reach out broadly within the scientific, technological, and educational communities, bringing workshop participants together into small teams to learn about the data-use needs and capabilities of other groups, and to develop educational modules that guide teachers and students through valid examples for using data and tools. The outcomes of this effort will ultimately make Earth science data, the technology to access and analyze that data, and educational modules that facilitate the use of those data and tools accessible and usable by the educational community. These resources will be available through digital libraries such as the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners' Earth Information Exchange, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). The project will facilitate the active integration of research and education by bringing together a professionally diverse community that includes data providers, tools developers, scientists, curriculum developers, and educators for the purpose of 1) informing each other of their data use needs and capabilities, 2) contributing their expertise to the development of an educational module (a chapter in the Earth Exploration Toolbook) that features research quality Earth science datasets and data analysis tools, and 3) developing ongoing relationships with professionally diverse colleagues. The Earth Exploration Toolbook chapters that are completed as a result of this project will be made available to a broad spectrum of the educational community. In addition, as part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook collection, the chapters will be featured in a separately funded teacher professional development program. This will extend the use of their featured data and tools to teachers and students across the nation. Second, the participants in the workshops will develop new partnerships with colleagues, who they would not have met otherwise, that will greatly expand their capabilities with respect to the integration of research and education in their own fields of expertise and their ability to engage other professionally diverse communities.