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

这个项目的核心是技术设计，这些技术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，这些设计是现代科学教学法的特征。虽然在支持坐在电脑前的学习者的技术开发方面已经付出了相当大的努力，但该项目将解决在很大程度上未被探索的具体领域，整个班级的科学探究活动，这些活动在很大程度上不受传统一对一技术的影响。该项目侧重于“嵌入式现象”教学单元，在该教学单元中，小学生在数周的时间内对持续存在的、房间大小的模拟现象进行调查。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，操纵和代表他们集体科学工作的结果。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，为雄心勃勃的STEM教学提供支持。更广泛的影响：该项目将帮助学生和教师，特别是小学和初中的学生和教师，克服障碍，参与有可能改变科学教育的创新但复杂的教学形式。它将促进科学实践的高保真实施，帮助确保参与的机会分配给所有班级的学生，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、新教学单元及其支持STEM学习的有效性评估——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.