The YardMap Network: Social Networking for Community Science

YardMap Network：社区科学社交网络

• 批准号: 0917487
• 负责人: Janis Dickinson
• 金额: $ 148.37万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2016-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0917487&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: YardMap; Network; Social; Networking; Community

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Institute for Learning Innovation, and several environmental organizations are merging existing bird-focused citizen science programs with gardening and online social networking activities to provide older adult learners (age 35 and up) with opportunities to investigate the environmental impacts of implementing landscaping and carbon-reducing practices in their backyards, community gardens, and parks. The YardMap Network project is developing learning resources that will help gardeners, birders, and novices learn bird-habitat improving and carbon-reducing living practices by joining a nationwide ecological social network composed of more than 100,000 people. The goal of the project is to create online learning communities that move people from basic and intermediate levels ecological understanding to advanced levels of understanding by providing experiences whereby YardMappers learn about, design, evaluate, share, and invent conservation practices in their backyards and other green spaces.While developing the network, the project will gather data to test the hypothesis that coupling citizen science activities with social networking technologies to create online learning communities improves participants' understanding of project-relevant science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The project will track learning outcomes using standard evaluation techniques and by following individuals' routes of entry, network interactions, mapped garden practices, carbon-neutral behaviors, and their bird monitoring activities. YardMappers will divide naturally into treatment groups, creating a quasi-experimental design to test the importance of social networking for basic, intermediate, and advanced learning outcomes.

康奈尔大学鸟类学实验室，学习创新研究所和几个环保组织正在将现有的以鸟类为重点的公民科学计划与园艺和在线社交网络活动相结合，为年龄较大的成年学习者（35岁及以上）提供机会，调查在他们的后院，社区花园和公园实施景观美化和碳减排措施的环境影响。YardMap Network项目正在开发学习资源，通过加入一个由10万多人组成的全国性生态社会网络，帮助园丁、观鸟者和新手学习改善鸟类栖息地和减少碳排放的生活方式。该项目的目标是创建在线学习社区，通过提供YardMapper学习、设计、评估、分享和发明后院和其他绿色空间的保护实践的经验，使人们从初级和中级水平的生态理解提高到高级水平的理解。该项目将收集数据，以检验以下假设：将公民科学活动与社交网络技术结合起来，创建在线学习社区，提高参与者对与项目相关的科学、技术、工程和数学。该项目将使用标准评估技术跟踪学习成果，并跟踪个人的进入路线，网络互动，绘制园林实践，碳中和行为及其鸟类监测活动。YardMappers将自然地划分为治疗组，创建一个准实验设计，以测试社交网络对基础，中级和高级学习成果的重要性。