Collaborative Research: Multimedia Engineering Notebook Tools to Support Engineering Discourse in Urban Elementary School Classrooms

协作研究：支持城市小学课堂工程讨论的多媒体工程笔记本工具

• 批准号: 1316762
• 负责人: Patricia Paugh
• 金额: $ 26.28万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Boston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1316762&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Multimedia; Engineering; Notebook

This collaborative, exploratory, learning strand project focuses on improving reflective decision-making among elementary school students during the planning and re-design activities of the engineering design process. Five teacher researchers in three elementary schools provide the classroom laboratories for the study. Specified units from Engineering is Elementary, a well-studied curriculum, provide the engineering content. In year one, the qualitative research observes student discourse as students develop designs. Based on the results, a paper engineering note book with prompts is designed for use in year two while a digital notebook is developed. In year three, the students use the digital notebook to develop their designs and redesigns. The research identifies patterns of language that contribute to the reflective discourse and determines how the paper and electronic versions of the notebook improve the discourse. An advisory committee provides advice and evaluation. The notebooks are described in conference proceedings and made available online. This work synthesizes what is known about the use of the notebooks in science and engineering education at the elementary school and investigates how to improve their use through digital media.

这个协作性、探索性、学习链项目的重点是在工程设计过程的规划和重新设计活动中提高小学生的反思性决策。 三所小学的五名教师研究人员为这项研究提供了课堂实验室。 工程是初级的指定单元，是一门经过深入研究的课程，提供工程内容。 在第一年，定性研究在学生开发设计时观察学生的话语。 根据结果​​，设计了带有提示的纸质工程笔记本，供第二年使用，同时开发了数字笔记本。 在第三年，学生们使用数字笔记本来开发他们的设计和重新设计。 该研究确定了有助于反思性话语的语言模式，并确定了纸质和电子版本的笔记本如何改进话语。 咨询委员会提供建议和评估。 这些笔记本在会议记录中进行了描述，并可在线获取。这项工作综合了小学科学和工程教育中笔记本的使用情况，并研究了如何通过数字媒体改进笔记本的使用。