Connecting Research and Teaching Through Product Innovation: Quality of Life Technology RET Site

通过产品创新连接研究和教学：生活质量技术 RET 网站

• 批准号: 1161880
• 负责人: Jonathan Pearlman
• 金额: $ 51.2万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1161880&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connecting; Research; Teaching; Through; Product

This award provides funding for a 3 year continuing award to support a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) in Engineering and Computer Science Site program at the University of Pittsburgh entitled, "Connecting Research and Teaching Through Product Innovation: Quality of Life Technology RET Site under the direction of Dr. Jonathan L. Pearlman. This RET Site is a renewal of a successful RET Site program hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, which will continue to draw upon the aggregate strengths in the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC) and the Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Engineering Research Center. This site will recruit a total of up to 39 science and math teachers, as interdiscipliary pairs from high needs urban high schools, who will complete: 1) A 12 week experience in engineering labs in across-district teams of 4 to perform fundamental scientific research and then translate that research into innovative products, involving QoLT topics. 2) A course on product innovation that includes design, development, and evaluation of technolgies in addition to the processes of bringing these products to market.3) A redesign of design-based learning (DBL) units originally developed in the LRDC, and modified via iterative design by RET teachers over time to incorporate product development economics and other math concepts related to innovation.4) A comprehensive professional development series providing teachers with classroom implementation and assistance of DBL units. This site will directly impact approximately 39 teachers and 400 underrepresented students including those from high need urban high schools in the Pittsburgh region, with a particular focus on high schools comprised almost entirely of minority and low socio-economic status students, and girls. In addition, by focusing on QoLT, this site improves awareness and develops technology for a growing segment of the U.S. population that is often overlooked-people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability.

该奖项提供资金为3年的持续奖励，以支持研究经验的教师（RET）在工程和计算机科学网站计划在匹兹堡大学，题为“连接研究和教学通过产品创新：生活质量技术RET网站下博士的方向。珀尔曼这个RET网站是由匹兹堡大学主办的一个成功的RET网站计划的更新，该计划将继续利用学习研究与发展中心（LRDC）和生活技术质量（QoLT）工程研究中心的综合优势。 该网站将招募多达39名科学和数学教师，作为来自高需求城市高中的实习生，他们将完成：1）在工程实验室的12周经验，在跨地区的4人团队中进行基础科学研究，然后将研究转化为创新产品，涉及QoLT主题。2)一门关于产品创新的课程，除了将这些产品推向市场的过程外，还包括设计、开发和技术评估。3）重新设计最初在LRDC开发的基于设计的学习（DBL）单元，并通过RET教师的迭代设计进行修改，以纳入产品开发经济学和其他与创新相关的数学概念。一个全面的专业发展系列，为教师提供课堂实施和DBL单元的帮助。该网站将直接影响大约39名教师和400名代表性不足的学生，包括匹兹堡地区高需求城市高中的学生，特别关注几乎完全由少数民族和社会经济地位低的学生和女孩组成的高中。 此外，通过关注QoLT，该网站提高了人们的认识，并为越来越多的美国人口开发了技术，这些人口往往被忽视，因为衰老或残疾而导致功能下降。