EAGER: Cyberlearning at the Los Angeles State Historic Park

EAGER：洛杉矶州立历史公园的网络学习

• 批准号: 1256227
• 负责人: Jeffrey Burke
• 金额: $ 29.91万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 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 2014-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256227&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Cyberlearning; Los; Angeles; State

The long-term goal of this project team is to advance understanding of how technology can be used to leverage the potential of public spaces to promote civic engagement, public interaction, and ultimately, life-long learning. In this EAGER project, they are carrying out a set of first steps in coming to understand how public spaces might be augmented with technology to promote and develop community interest and practice in civic engagement. The venue for the work is the Los Angeles State Historic Park, a 32-acre site in downtown LA that attracts families from several nearby ethnically-diverse neighborhoods. They are creating a prototype interpretive module for the park, an interactive mural that will act as an invitation to civic engagement and evolving social memory for the park and its surrounding communities. Evaluation centers on measuring and characterizing the engagement of park visitors, their participation with the media, and the interactions between media authorship, organizational structure, and youth civic engagement. Research is around issues in designing installations in ways that increase civic engagement, learning how and under what circumstances new types of embodied interaction technologies increase civic engagement, especially by neighborhood youth. Foundations for the design of the installation and experiences around it come from three theoretical perspectives: communities of practice, play and performativity, and the idea of an evolving social memory and the knowledge-building discourse that promotes such evolving memory. The challenge is to achieve the civic engagement and learning goals in the context of a space people visit primarily for recreation and play.The potential broader impacts of this work lie in the possibilities of learning better how to use neighborhood and other public spaces to promote civic engagement and learning, especially among youth who frequent those places. Participation in activities in public spaces could complement formal education and be designed to support voluntary, self-directed learning, with particular potential for promoting positive affective responses and attitudes towards subject matter and ways of doing things. As a first step, this team is designing an interactive mural that community members will engage with as authors and collaborators. The goals here, as they iteratively revise the mural so that it encourages youth engagement with others in civic issues, is to move towards developing guidelines for designing other installations that could also promote such engagement. This project represents work in its early states on an untested but potentially transformative idea and is likely to catalyze rapid and innovative advances in the use of public spaces for promoting learning and civic engagement goals.

这个项目团队的长期目标是促进对如何利用技术来利用公共空间的潜力来促进公民参与、公共互动，并最终实现终身学习的理解。在这个热切的项目中，他们正在进行一系列的初步步骤，以了解如何利用技术来扩大公共空间，以促进和发展社区在公民参与方面的兴趣和实践。这项工作的地点是洛杉矶州立历史公园，这是一个位于洛杉矶市中心的32英亩的遗址，吸引了来自附近几个种族多元化社区的家庭。他们正在为公园创建一个原型解释模块，这是一幅互动壁画，将邀请公民参与，并为公园及其周围社区不断发展的社会记忆。评估的重点是衡量和描述公园游客的参与度、他们与媒体的参与度，以及媒体作者、组织结构和青年公民参与度之间的互动。研究围绕以增加公民参与的方式设计设施的问题，了解新型具体化互动技术如何以及在什么情况下增加公民参与，特别是社区青年的参与。装置及其周围体验的设计基础来自三个理论视角：实践、游戏和表演性的社区，以及不断演变的社会记忆和促进这种不断演变的记忆的知识构建话语的想法。挑战是在人们主要为娱乐和娱乐而访问的空间中实现公民参与和学习目标。这项工作的潜在更广泛影响在于有可能更好地学习如何利用社区和其他公共空间来促进公民参与和学习，特别是在经常光顾这些地方的年轻人中。参与公共场所的活动可以补充正规教育，并旨在支持自愿的、自我指导的学习，特别是有潜力促进对主题和做事方式的积极情感反应和态度。作为第一步，这个团队正在设计一幅互动壁画，社区成员将作为作者和合作者参与其中。这里的目标，因为他们反复修改壁画，以鼓励青年与其他人参与公民问题，是朝着制定设计也可以促进这种参与的其他装置的指导方针迈进。该项目代表了其早期状态下关于一个未经检验但可能具有变革性的想法的工作，并可能促进在利用公共空间促进学习和公民参与目标方面取得快速和创新的进展。