A Collaborative Research Project: Using RoboBooks To Build Scalable K12-

该探索性项目将通过由工程学校，K12机构和教师培训师组成的K12工程合作伙伴关系开发和调查工程教育的可扩展模型。建立这些伙伴关系的材料和背景将使用新的基于乐高的数字组合软件RoboBooks。塔夫茨工程教育外展中心（CEEO）的成员将开发两个交互式RoboBooks，通过辅助设备的工程来教授中学科学。纽约城市学院的合作伙伴将编写一份讲习班伙伴关系手册。项目？的学生RoboBook将支持4-8年级的学生学习力和运动和简单的机器，让他们建立和编程机器人，并给予反馈，他们的原型？帮助他们改进设计。项目？的Teacher RoboBook将帮助4-8年级的教师与学生一起学习使用RoboBooks，了解相关的科学和工程概念，并开始构建与工程设计相关的教学内容知识。该项目将通过两种方式进行评估：通过评估RoboBooks对学生和教师学习的影响，以及通过试点测试项目材料的使用，以支持CCNY？工程学院，CCNY教师培训师和NYC教师。项目？为了实现可扩展性，该公司向潜在的合作团体提供两本RoboBooks的副本，然后他们对这些副本进行调整，供当地教师和学生使用。工程系教师和教师培训师将使用该手册定制RoboBooks，供当地学区使用，并设计有关使用RoboBooks的暑期教师研讨会，同时分享他们的共同专业知识，这将提高建立可持续K12工程合作伙伴关系的机会，并提高工程教育的意识。的价值在课堂上。

This exploratory project will develop and investigate a scalable model of engineering education through K12-Engineering partnerships composed of engineering schools, K12 institutions and teacher trainers. The materials and context for building these partnerships will use new LEGO-based digital portfolio software called RoboBooks. Members of the Tufts Center for Engineering Educational Outreach [CEEO] will develop two interactive RoboBooks to teach middle school science through the engineering of assistive devices. Partners at the City College of New York [CCNY] will develop a Workshop Partnership Manual. The project?s Student RoboBook will support grade 4-8 students in learning about force and motion and simple machines by having them build and program robots, and giving feedback on their prototypes? performance to help them improve their designs. The project?s Teacher RoboBook will help grades 4-8 teachers learn to use RoboBooks with their students, understand the relevant science and engineering concepts, and begin building pedagogical content knowledge related to engineering design. The project will be evaluated in two ways: by assessing the impact RoboBooks have on student and teacher learning, and by pilot testing the use of project materials to support an analogous partnership between CCNY?s Schools of Engineering, CCNY teacher trainers and NYC teachers. The project?s approach to achieving scalability involves providing potential partnership groups with copies of the two RoboBooks, which they then adapt for use by local teachers and students. Engineering faculty and teacher trainers will use the manual to customize RoboBooks for use in local school districts and design summer teacher workshops on using RoboBooks, all the while sharing their mutual expertise, which will enhance the chances of building a sustainable K12- Engineering Partnership and improving the awareness of engineering education?s value in the classroom.