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

这个项目以技术设计为中心，能够帮助教师和学生有效地进行现代科学教育学所特有的那种复杂、具有挑战性的教学设计。虽然在开发支持坐在计算机前的学习者的技术方面做出了相当大的努力，但该项目将解决基本上未被探索的具体化、整班科学探究活动领域，这些活动基本上不受传统一对一技术的影响。该项目的重点是“嵌入现象”教学单元，在这些单元中，小学生对持续的、房间大小的模拟现象进行长达数周的调查。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，以满足三个关键目标：(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协作调查，以及(C)帮助学生有效地整合、操纵和展示他们集体科学工作的结果。该项目开发的新技术将作为灵活、可持续的学习技术基础设施的基础，支持雄心勃勃的STEM教学。广泛的影响：该项目将帮助学生和教师，特别是小学和中学年级的学生和教师，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保真实施，有助于确保参与的机会分布在学生的各个班级，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其支持STEM学习的有效性的评估--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.