GSE/COM: Telling STEM Stories through Content Clips

该项目汇集并发布了多媒体剪辑和在线活动的数字集合，以突出职业，挑战刻板印象，并引入强有力的榜样。STEM故事系列通过结合与职业相关的内容和个人故事，促进儿童探索不同群体女性的生活和工作。该项目建立在之前两个由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究项目的成果和见解的基础上，这两个项目产生了“讲述我们的故事：科学中的女性”CD-ROM和“内容剪辑”网络系统环境，这是通过国家科学数字图书馆（NSDL）计划开发的。主要受众是4-8年级的女孩和与她们互动的教育工作者，在正式和非正式的环境中，有可以上网的电脑。智力价值——STEM故事系列通过在线访谈、虚拟实地考察、个人照片和反映她们生活和工作兴趣的互动调查，为12位从事不同职业的女性提供了深入、多维的简介。这本书还包括200多名女性的文字传记及其在STEM领域的成就，以及网络链接、照片和其他媒体。先前的研究确定了影响儿童对STEM内容和职业态度的关键因素，将为本项目的设计提供信息。这些因素包括积极的榜样对抵消持续存在的消极文化陈规定型观念的持续重要性。为了解决这些影响，该项目更新了流行但过时的CD-ROM中的高价值内容，并将其与新的多媒体材料集成在一起。它将这些元素结合在一个独特的、动态的在线环境中，利用当前技术的特点和灵活性，并将最终的收藏自由地分发给广泛的受众。更广泛的影响——Content Clips网络环境系统支持来自其他组织的其他简介、研究论文和性别平等材料的分发。它还允许用户向自己定制的资源集添加个人网页链接。评估的重点是农村和城市的教室，以及一项针对处境危险女孩的课后拓展计划。引人注目的内容也吸引了广泛的受众，包括4 - 8年级的男孩，高中生和大学生，家长以及其他感兴趣的成年人，如性别平等和STEM教育领域的研究人员和课程开发人员。STEM故事集通过Content Clips网站分发，并通过新闻稿、文章、网络链接、会议、讲习班、网络研讨会和出版物（包括由NSDL赞助的外展活动和事件）向适当的组织、外展项目、博物馆、科学中心和教育团体推广。

This project assembles and distributes a digital collection of multimedia clips and online activities to highlight careers, challenge stereotypes, and introduce strong role models. The STEM Stories collection facilitates children's exploration of the lives and work of a diverse group of women through a combination of career-related content and personal stories. The project builds on the outcomes and insights of two prior NSF-funded research projects that resulted in the Telling Our Stories: Women in Science CD-ROM and the Content Clips web system environment, which was developed through the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) program. The primary audience is girls in Grades 4-8 and the educators that interact with them, in both formal and informal settings where computers with Internet access are available.Intellectual Merit--The STEM Stories collection offers in-depth, multidimensional profiles of 12 women with diverse careers, through a combination of online interviews, virtual field trips, personal photos, and interactive investigations that reflect their lives and work interests. This collection also includes text biographies of more than 200 women and their accomplishments in STEM fields, along with web links, photos, and other media. Prior research identifying key factors that influence children's attitudes toward STEM content and careers will inform the design of this project. These factors include the continued importance of positive role models to counteract the persistence of negative cultural stereotypes. To address these influences, this project updates high-value content from a popular but outdated CD-ROM and integrates it with new multimedia materials. It combines these elements within a unique, dynamic online environment, to capitalize on the features and flexibility of current technology and to freely distribute the resulting collection to a wide audience.Broader Impacts--The Content Clips web environment system supports the distribution of additional profiles, research papers, and gender equity materials from other organizations. It also allows users to add personal web links to their own customized resource sets. Evaluation is focusing on rural and urban classrooms and an after-school outreach program for at-risk girls. The compelling content also appeals to a broad audience, including boys in Grades 4 - 8, high school and college students, parents, and other interested adults, such as researchers and curriculum developers in gender equity and STEM education fields. The STEM Stories collection is distributed through the Content Clips web site and promoted to appropriate organizations, outreach programs, museums, science centers, and educator groups, through press releases, articles, web links, conferences, workshops, web seminars, and publications, including outreach activities and events sponsored by the NSDL.