EAGER: A Prototype WorldWide Telescope Visualization Lab Designed in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment

EAGER：在基于网络的探究科学环境中设计的原型全球望远镜可视化实验室

• 批准号: 1254535
• 负责人: Alyssa Goodman
• 金额: $ 14.97万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 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: 2012-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1254535&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Prototype; WorldWide; Telescope; Visualization

The PIs are developing and testing a prototype visualization lab designed to help middle schoolers understand why the moon appears to have phases when observed from Earth. The work is being done through a partnership between (i) astronomers who have developed the WorldWide Telescope Universe Information System (WWT) and the World Wide Telescope Ambassadors program as a way of bringing the big data and visualization capabilities of astronomers to children and schools and (ii) learning scientists on the WISE team who have a long history of using what is known about how people learn to develop technology-rich middle school science curriculum. Astronomy data and tools for visualization developed by the WWT team is being integrated into WISE's technological infrastructure, which, for curriculum developers, scaffolds the development of curriculum that promotes learning, and for learners, makes available tools and resources for collaboratively making sense of what they are experiencing. Data is being collected that will show the potential of bringing these two projects together for promoting astronomy learning.The WorldWide Telescope computer program, with 9 million downloads, and the WISE environment, funded by NSF since 1998, are both freely available and held up as examples showing the promise of cyberlearning approaches. This project holds the potential to demonstrate the power of formally combining two modern technologies, one developed in industry and the other with public funds, to enhance online learning and educational research. The approaches developed under this EAGER grant will offer an example for future private/public partnerships and a model for engaging students and promoting learning through access to the big data and tools of scientists, and it will result in free software for the public to use in learning about moon phases and catalyze a long-term partnership with potential for dramatically impacting the ways middle schoolers and high schoolers are exposed to and learn about astronomy and how astronomers do science.

PI正在开发和测试一个原型可视化实验室，旨在帮助中学生理解为什么从地球上观察时月球似乎有相位。这项工作是通过以下两个方面的伙伴关系完成的：（一）开发了万维网望远镜宇宙信息系统（WWT）和万维网望远镜大使计划的天文学家，作为将天文学家的大数据和可视化能力带给儿童和学校的一种方式;（二）WISE团队中的学习科学家，他们在使用人们如何学习开发技术方面有着悠久的历史-丰富的中学科学课程。由WWT团队开发的天文学数据和可视化工具正在被整合到WISE的技术基础设施中，对于课程开发人员来说，它为促进学习的课程开发搭建了支架，对于学习者来说，它为协作理解他们正在经历的事情提供了工具和资源。目前正在收集的数据将显示将这两个项目结合在一起促进天文学学习的潜力。万维网望远镜计算机程序（下载量为900万次）和WISE环境（自1998年以来由NSF资助）都是免费提供的，并被作为展示网络学习方法前景的例子。该项目有可能展示将两种现代技术正式结合起来的力量，一种是在工业界开发的，另一种是用公共资金开发的，以加强在线学习和教育研究。在EAGER赠款下开发的方法将为未来的私人/公共伙伴关系提供一个范例，并通过获取科学家的大数据和工具来吸引学生和促进学习的模式，它将产生免费的软件供公众使用，用于学习月相，并促进一个长期的-长期的合作伙伴关系，有可能极大地影响中学生和高中生接触和学习天文学的方式，以及天文学家如何做科学。