HCC: Medium: New Technology Supports for Learning in Embodied Science Inquiry Contexts

该项目的中心技术的设计，可以帮助教师和学生有效地制定各种复杂的，具有挑战性的教学设计，现代科学教学法的特点。虽然相当大的努力已经投入到技术的发展，以支持谁是坐在电脑前的学习者，这个项目将解决在很大程度上未开发的领域体现，全班科学探究活动，在很大程度上是由传统的一对一技术介导。该项目的重点是“嵌入式现象”的教学单元，其中小学生进行持续的，房间大小的模拟现象在多周的时间调查。通过一系列迭代设计研究，该项目将为教师和学生建立和评估基于技术的支持，以实现三个关键目标：（a）提高学生进行准确和可靠的科学调查的能力，（B）确保所有课堂学生定期和有意义地参与合作调查，以及（c）帮助学生有效地整合，操纵，代表了他们集体科学工作的成果。该项目开发的新技术将成为灵活、可持续的学习技术基础设施的基石，支持雄心勃勃的STEM教学。更广泛的影响：该项目将帮助学生和教师，特别是小学和中学的学生和教师，克服参与创新但复杂的教学形式的障碍，这些形式有可能改变科学教育。 它将促进科学实践的高度忠实的颁布，帮助确保参与的机会分布在整个班级的学生，并为新的教学方法的设计提供信息。 该项目的有形产品-包括新技术，新的教学单元，以及对它们在支持STEM学习方面的有效性的评估-将广泛提供给教师，学习研究人员和技术开发人员。

This project centers on the design of technologies than can help teachers and students to effectively enact the kinds of complex, challenging instructional designs that characterize modern science pedagogy. While considerable effort has gone into the development of technologies to support learners who are seated at computers, this project will address the largely unexplored domain of embodied, whole-class science inquiry activities that are largely unmediated by traditional one-to-one technologies. The project focuses on "embedded phenomena" instructional units in which elementary school students conduct investigations of persistent, room-sized simulated phenomena over multi-week periods. Through a series of iterative design studies, the project will build and evaluate technology-based supports for teachers and students addressing three critical goals: (a) improving students' abilities to conduct accurate and reliable scientific investigations, (b) ensuring the regular and meaningful participation of all classroom students in collaborative investigations, and (c) helping students to effectively integrate, manipulate, and represent the results of their collective scientific work. The new technologies developed in the project will serve as foundational building blocks for a flexible, sustainable learning technology infrastructure supporting ambitious STEM instruction.Broader impacts: The project will help students and teachers, particularly in the elementary and middle school grades, to overcome barriers to engaging in innovative but complex pedagogical forms that have the potential to transform science education. It will promote high-fidelity enactment of science practices, help to ensure that opportunities for participation are distributed throughout classes of students, and inform the design of new pedagogical approaches. The tangible products of the project-including new technologies, new instructional units, and evaluations of their effectiveness in supporting STEM learning-will be made broadly available to teachers, learning researchers, and technology developers.