Type 1: Casting a Wide Net: Applied Computational Thinking

第一类：广撒网：应用计算思维

• 批准号: 1138461
• 负责人: Kemi Jona
• 金额: $ 99.87万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-11-01 至 2015-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138461&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Type; Casting; Wide; Net; Applied

Northwestern University proposes to develop computational thinking (CT) activities that can be embedded throughout existing high school STEM curricula. The approach casts a wide net, introducing a diverse range of students (including those from traditionally underrepresented groups) to CT skills through STEM courses that they are already taking. The intent is that students understand that computing is more than programming, it is a vital skill set that pervades modern STEM fields. In addition to the embedded CT activities, the project will develop a full-year course that explores the use of computational methods across a range of disciplines including math, physics, chemistry, biology, and earth/environmental science. This project builds on existing partnerships with local schools and teachers and on an NSF GK12 program, Reach for the Stars, that pairs graduate students in CS/STEM disciplines with local middle and high school teachers to develop CT activities based on the graduate students' research. The current proposal will use this rich set of initial CT activities as a starting point for developing 60 refined CT activities that can be embedded in traditional STEM courses. Two summer professional development workshops and ongoing Saturday sessions will be used to train a team of 30 pilot teachers to test the CT activities in their STEM classrooms. These professional development resources will then be revised for larger-scale replication of our CT curriculum. Evaluation studies will document the CT learning and attitudinal gains for both teachers and students and provide initial evidence on the success of our embedded CT approach.

西北大学建议开发可嵌入现有高中STEM课程的计算思维(CT)活动。这种方法撒下了一张大网，通过他们已经参加的STEM课程，向各种各样的学生(包括那些来自传统上代表性较低的群体的学生)介绍CT技能。其目的是让学生理解计算不仅仅是编程，它是贯穿现代STEM领域的一项重要技能。除了嵌入的CT活动外，该项目还将开发一门为期一年的课程，探索在数学、物理、化学、生物和地球/环境科学等一系列学科中使用计算方法。该项目建立在与当地学校和教师的现有伙伴关系以及NSF GK12项目REACH for the Stars的基础上，该项目将CS/STEM学科的研究生与当地的初中和高中教师配对，以研究生的研究为基础开展CT活动。目前的提案将以这套丰富的初始CT活动为起点，开发60项可嵌入传统STEM课程的精细化CT活动。将利用两个暑期专业发展讲习班和正在进行的周六课程来培训一支由30名试点教师组成的团队，在他们的STEM课堂上测试CT活动。这些专业发展资源随后将进行修订，以便更大规模地复制我们的CT课程。评估研究将记录教师和学生的CT学习和态度收获，并为我们的嵌入式CT方法的成功提供初步证据。