STAR Library Education Network: A Hands-on Learning Program for Libraries and Their Communities

STAR 图书馆教育网络：针对图书馆及其社区的实践学习计划

• 批准号: 1010844
• 负责人: Paul Dusenbery
• 金额: $ 249.53万
• 依托单位: SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1010844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STAR; Library; Education; Network; Hands

The project will support STEM learning through local libraries via science kiosks that are compatible with the library setting, and associated materials and programmatic activities. The traveling kiosks will be readily assembled, disassembled, and crated, making them particularly amenable to travel. The subject matter will center on earth science, space science and technology. The American Library Association will manage the tour of these exhibits.This project goes to the question of how the informal science education field supports STEM learning of children and adults who live in rural and in some cases impoverished localities. A particular focus of this project is upper elementary through middle-school aged youth and their families. The team assembled for this project has worked together before and has piloted this project. In addition supporting STEM learning for the public in rural communities, there will be an educational element dealing with educating the library staff prior to the kiosks arriving. This will be done via face-to-face and online discussions. Over time, the initial staff participants and others will create a Community of Practice that will not only involve the project library staff, but also participants from other informal learning venues such as science centers and museums. The evaluation effort includes measurement of knowledge enhancement by library staff, and a comparison study of the STEM learning in rural library venues versus science center venues.The major collaborators in this effort are: the Space Science Institute, the American Library Association, the Lunar and Planetary Institute, Oregon State University, the University of Colorado, and the National Girls Collaborative Project.

该项目将通过与图书馆环境相适应的科学亭，通过当地图书馆支持STEM的学习，并支持相关材料和方案活动。旅行售货亭可以很容易地组装、拆卸和装箱，使它们特别适合旅行。主题将集中在地球科学、空间科学和技术上。美国图书馆协会将管理这些展览的参观。这个项目涉及非正式科学教育领域如何支持生活在农村，有时甚至是贫困地区的儿童和成年人的STEM学习的问题。该项目的一个特别重点是从小学高年级到中学的老年青年及其家庭。为这个项目组建的团队以前曾一起工作过，并试行过这个项目。除了支持农村社区公众学习STEM外，还将有一个教育元素，在信息亭到达之前对图书馆工作人员进行教育。这将通过面对面和在线讨论来完成。随着时间的推移，最初的工作人员参与者和其他人将创建一个实践共同体，其中不仅包括项目图书馆的工作人员，还将包括来自科学中心和博物馆等其他非正式学习场所的参与者。评估工作包括衡量图书馆工作人员的知识增长，以及对农村图书馆场馆和科学中心场馆的STEM学习进行比较研究。这项工作的主要合作者是：空间科学研究所、美国图书馆协会、月球和行星研究所、俄勒冈州立大学、科罗拉多大学和国家女孩合作项目。