Using Wide-Spread Collaboration to Motivate Innovation and Creativity

利用广泛的协作来激发创新和创造力

• 批准号: 0757455
• 负责人: Chris Rogers
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0757455&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Using; Wide; Spread; Collaboration; Motivate

The goal of this project is to develop a new environment for collaboration in creative projects and to promote creativity and innovation in IT problem solving among disadvantaged youth. The new environment is a wiki-based authoring toolkit, called the Briefcase, that will guide students through the use of various software packages and allow them to share and discuss with others locally and over the Internet. The intent of the Briefcase concept is to extend the functionality of the RoboBook product currently under development at Tufts to include the scalability of a Wiki-like backbone. Once the software has been designed, we will develop instructional content for it as well. The idea is to provide students with an authoring environment (like Word or PowerPoint) that helps students 1. learn how to use various software packages; 2. keep track of what they are doing through blogs, pictures, and movies; 3. discuss and team with others (locally and remotely) to problem solve; and 4. share what they develop with others around the world. Further, the Briefcase will allow the Learning Centers to recruit excellent mentors that are not necessarily software experts. The idea is that a user could ?check out a Briefcase? for a project in a software package (e.g., Scratch). She opens the Briefcase to an instruction manual, complete with movies, pictures, and interactive pages. She then starts to move into the open-ended design of her project, with the included design brief providing scaffolding for her design. At this point the tool becomes more of a diary and note-taking environment (where notes can include pictures, voice, and movies). As she completes her design, she creates her final presentation within the Briefcase that is then shared with others on the web.Broader Impact: The hybrid technology being delivered to children in different cities in different socioeconomic conditions, can make a real impact in improving science education opportunities for disadvantaged youth. This work could also inform new directions for textbooks of the future.

这个计划的目的是为创意计划的合作建立一个新的环境，并促进弱势青少年在解决资讯科技问题方面的创意和创新。新的环境是一个基于维基的编写工具包，称为“公文包”，将指导学生使用各种软件包，并使他们能够在当地和通过因特网与他人分享和讨论。Briefcase概念的目的是扩展目前正在Tufts开发的RoboBook产品的功能，以包括类似于Wiki-like主干的可扩展性。一旦软件被设计出来，我们也将为它开发教学内容。 我们的想法是为学生提供一个创作环境（如Word或PowerPoint），帮助学生1。学习如何使用各种软件包; 2.通过博客、图片和电影跟踪他们在做什么; 3.与其他人（本地和远程）讨论并合作解决问题;以及4.与世界各地的其他人分享他们的成果。此外，“公文包”将使学习中心能够招募优秀的导师，而这些导师不一定是软件专家。这意味着用户可以？看看公文包吗对于软件包中的项目（例如，Scratch）。她打开公文包，打开一本说明书，里面有电影、图片和交互式页面。然后，她开始进入项目的开放式设计，其中包含的设计简介为她的设计提供了框架。在这一点上，该工具变得更像是一个日记和笔记环境（笔记可以包括图片，语音和电影）。当她完成设计时，她会在公文包中创建最终演示文稿，然后在Web上与其他人共享。更广泛的影响：在不同的社会经济条件下，在不同城市向儿童提供的混合技术可以在改善弱势青年的科学教育机会方面产生真实的影响。这项工作也可以为未来的教科书提供新的方向。