Integrating Informal STEM and Arts-Based Learning to Foster Innovation

整合非正式 STEM 和艺术学习以促进创新

• 批准号: 1224111
• 负责人: Harvey Seifter
• 金额: $ 265.49万
• 依托单位: Balboa Park Cultural Partnership
• 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: 2012-09-15 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1224111&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Informal; STEM; Arts; Based

The Balboa Park Cultural Partnership, in collaboration with several informal science education and other cultural and business organizations in San Diego, Chicago, and Worcester, MA are implementing a research and development project that investigates a range of possible approaches for stimulating the development of 21st Century creativity skills and innovative processes at the interface between informal STEM learning and methods for creative thinking. The goal of the research is to advance understanding of the potential impacts of creative thinking methods on the public's understanding of and engagement with STEM, with a focus on 21st Century workforce skills of teens and adults. The goal of the project's development activities is to experiment with a variety of "innovation incubator" models in cities around the country. Modeled on business "incubators" or "accelerators" that are designed to foster and accelerate innovation and creativity, these STEM incubators generate collaborations of different professionals and the public around STEM education and other STEM-related topics of local interest that can be explored with the help of creative learning methodologies such as innovative methods to generate creative ideas, ideas for transforming one STEM idea to others, drawing on visual and graphical ideas, improvisation, narrative writing, and the process of using innovative visual displays of information for creating visual roadmaps. Hosting the project's incubators are the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership (San Diego), the Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago) and the EcoTarium (Worcester, MA). National partners are the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Americans for the Arts. Activities will include: the formation and collaborative processes of three incubator sites, a research study, the development of a creative thinking curriculum infused into science education, professional development based on the curriculum, public engagement events and exhibits, a project website and tools for social networking, and project evaluation. A national advisory council includes professionals in education, science, creativity, and business.

巴尔博亚公园文化合作伙伴关系，在圣地亚哥，芝加哥和伍斯特，MA的几个非正式的科学教育和其他文化和商业组织合作，正在实施一项研究和开发项目，调查一系列可能的方法，刺激21世纪世纪创造力技能和创新过程的发展，在非正式的STEM学习和创造性思维方法之间的接口。该研究的目标是促进对创造性思维方法对公众理解和参与STEM的潜在影响的理解，重点关注青少年和成人的21世纪世纪劳动力技能。该项目开发活动的目标是在全国各城市试验各种“创新孵化器”模式。以旨在促进和加速创新和创造力的商业“孵化器”或“加速器”为模型，这些STEM孵化器围绕STEM教育和其他STEM相关主题，促进不同专业人士和公众的合作，这些主题可以在创造性学习方法的帮助下进行探索，例如创新方法，以产生创造性想法，将一个STEM想法转化为其他想法，利用视觉和图形的想法，即兴创作，叙事写作，以及使用创新的视觉信息显示来创建视觉路线图的过程。该项目的孵化器是巴尔博亚公园文化合作伙伴关系（圣地亚哥），科学和工业博物馆（芝加哥）和EcoTarium（伍斯特，MA）。国家伙伴是科学技术中心协会、美国科学促进协会和美国艺术协会。活动将包括：三个孵化器网站的形成和合作过程，一项研究，一个融入科学教育的创造性思维课程的开发，基于课程的专业发展，公众参与活动和展览，一个项目网站和社交网络工具，以及项目评估。国家咨询理事会包括教育、科学、创造力和商业方面的专业人士。