CAP: Mobile Pathways for 21st Century Learning

CAP：21 世纪学习的移动途径

• 批准号: 1250580
• 负责人: Debra Socia
• 金额: $ 4.85万
• 依托单位: OpenAirBoston.net
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250580&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAP; Mobile; Pathways; 21st; Century

Open Air Boston (OAB) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to bridge the digital divide so that low-income, under-served populations in the City of Boston have access to digital communications technology and the Internet. The OAB Technology Goes Home (TGH) Program is an 11-year-old, award-winning City initiative that gives under-served residents the opportunity to access the tools and education required for 21st century skills development. The next step in this initiative has been conceptualized as a collaboration with local informal education organizations to design game-like community learning experiences that use mobile technologies to engage students and their parents in scientific reasoning and exploration that will help them learn STEM content and practices and perhaps become interested in STEM careers. This Cyberlearning Capacity-Building Project (CAP) is for the purpose of building the research capacity of this already-strong team so that they have the capacity to develop an approach that is based on the best that the literature has to tell us about how people learn and how people learn with technology and so that they can use their efforts as an infrastructure for carrying out research that will advance what is known about engaging low-income, under-served populations of teens in STEM endeavors in beneficial ways. The team is undertaking three capacity-building sub-goals to help them incorporate state-of-the-art knowledge and findings into their approach: (1) further developing the project team, partnerships, and collaboration activities of the team so that they can successfully achieve those goals; (2) synthesizing the research literature on the use of a social-mobile learning applications to engage students in informal STEM learning; and (3) synthesizing the research literature on engaging under-represented, under-served middle school students and their parents in technology-based collaborative educational activities. Experts on how people learn and how people learn with technology are collaborating with the already-existing team to conceptualize an approach to using mobile devices to engage middle schoolers and their families in STEM exploration and investigation in their community that has foundations in what is known about how people learn and engaging adolescents in science and that has good potential to lead to STEM learning and interest in STEM-related careers.

开放空气波士顿(OAB)是一个非营利性组织，其使命是弥合数字鸿沟，使波士顿低收入、服务不足的人群能够获得数字通信技术和互联网。OAB技术回家(TGH)计划是一项已有11年历史、屡获殊荣的城市倡议，为服务不足的居民提供机会，获得21世纪技能发展所需的工具和教育。这一计划的下一步已被构想为与当地非正规教育组织合作，设计类似游戏的社区学习体验，利用移动技术让学生及其家长参与科学推理和探索，帮助他们学习STEM的内容和实践，或许还会对STEM职业产生兴趣。这个网络学习能力建设项目(CAP)的目的是建设这个已经很强大的团队的研究能力，使他们有能力开发一种基于最好的方法，即文献告诉我们人们如何学习以及人们如何利用技术学习，以便他们能够将他们的努力作为开展研究的基础，以促进已知的让低收入、服务不足的青少年群体以有益的方式参与STEM活动。该团队正在实施三个能力建设子目标，以帮助他们将最先进的知识和发现纳入他们的方法：(1)进一步发展项目团队、合作伙伴关系和团队的协作活动，以便他们能够成功地实现这些目标；(2)综合关于使用社交移动学习应用程序让学生参与非正式STEM学习的研究文献；以及(3)综合关于让代表不足、服务不足的中学生及其家长参与基于技术的协作教育活动的研究文献。研究人们如何学习以及人们如何利用技术学习的专家正在与现有的团队合作，构思一种使用移动设备让中学生及其家人参与他们所在社区的STEM探索和调查的方法，这种方法具有关于人们如何学习和让青少年参与科学的已知基础，并且有很好的潜力导致STEM学习和对STEM相关职业的兴趣。