NSDL Backpack

NSDL背包

• 批准号: 1043616
• 负责人: Michael Garn
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Southern Regional Education Board
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-12-01 至 2011-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043616&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSDL; Backpack

Research shows that learning that occurs outside the classroom can be a critical STEM career catalyst. In fact, 75 percent of science category Nobel Prize winners indicate that their passion for science was first sparked in non-school, independent learning environments. The NSDL Backpack provides tools and services that increase the numbers of learners using high-quality, relevant NSDL content in science competitions. The potential impact is significant since nationally, science competitions engage more than 9 million K-12 students every year. The NSDL Backpack prototype demonstrates how a learner-centered service, using web-based tools and resources, and partnering with a national science competition, can increase utilization of the NSDL. Using a website and tools designed by a learner focus group, the Backpack is making NSDL assets, selected and aligned to the challenges by the Destination ImagiNation (DI) curriculum mangers and Backpack staff, available directly to participants in the DI science challenge. The Backpack pathway is contributing to the intellectual understanding of how students use technology to learn outside of formal, teacher-directed settings. By increasing the number of learners using NSDL content (only 23% of NSDL searchers in a recent survey were students) and by studying their needs directly, the NSDL Backpack is informing and fostering developments at other NSDL pathways and other NSF research projects, as well as broader research into how self-directed learners learn.

研究表明，课堂外的学习可以成为STEM职业生涯的关键催化剂。事实上，75%的科学类诺贝尔奖获得者表示，他们对科学的热情最初是在非学校的独立学习环境中激发的。NSDL Backpack提供的工具和服务增加了在科学竞赛中使用高质量、相关的NSDL内容的学习者的数量。潜在的影响是巨大的，因为在全国范围内，每年有超过900万K-12学生参与科学竞赛。NSDL双肩包原型展示了一个以学习者为中心的服务，利用基于网络的工具和资源，并与国家科学竞赛合作，可以提高NSDL的利用率。使用一个由学习者焦点小组设计的网站和工具，Backpack正在制作由目的地想象（DI）课程经理和Backpack工作人员选择并与挑战保持一致的NSDL资产，直接提供给DI科学挑战的参与者。“双肩包”项目有助于理解学生如何在正式的、教师指导的环境之外利用技术进行学习。通过增加使用NSDL内容的学习者数量（在最近的一项调查中，只有23%的NSDL搜索者是学生），通过直接研究他们的需求，NSDL Backpack正在为其他NSDL途径和其他NSF研究项目的发展提供信息和促进，以及对自主学习者如何学习的更广泛的研究。