Full-Scale Development: Collaborative Research: NEXT: The Youth Radio Innovation Lab

这一全面/协作研究项目的目标是那些将与STEM专业人员合作共同创建与社区相关的技术和媒体内容的未得到充分服务的青年，创建一个潜在的可扩展模式。App Lab DIY是青年电台、麻省理工学院移动学习媒体实验室中心和Mozilla基金会的合作项目。与专业人士合作的年轻人将设计、创建和传播原创应用程序，这些应用程序将围绕社区问题(例如城市野生动物地图；社区DNA)吸引用户。他们将直接与麻省理工学院媒体实验室/移动学习中心合作，改进开源工具App Inventor。青年参与者将为国家广播电台和包括NPR在内的在线媒体创建媒体内容。他们将设计数字徽章来验证和记录他们在创建媒体和应用程序方面所学到的东西。将为教育工作者创建和传播课程资源和工具，以促进服务不足的年轻人学习STEM。交付内容包括：1)创建三个应用程序(富媒体的、与STEM相关的、有社区价值的)，以吸引社区；2)改进App Inventor，这是麻省理工学院的开源工具，使为所有人开发的应用程序民主化；3)与应用程序集成的广播故事；4)为非正式和正规教育人员提供多媒体工具包，以适应他们的计划；5)试点徽章系统，以标记与青年驱动的媒体制作和技术创新相关的技能掌握情况；以及6)一项研究，重点是利用应用程序开发来推动STEM在服务不足的青年中的学习和参与。原创研究将由嵌入式常驻学者进行，以告知和推动该领域通过媒体/技术创新推动STEM参与。常驻学者将使用参与者行动研究来告知和改进实践，并研究关于该计划如何运作以及为什么的大的一般性问题。评估将利用青年电台过去的NSF拨款中建立的工具和方法来研究对年轻人的技能、知识和态度的影响。他们还将研究对另外两个受众的影响：使用多媒体工具包的教育工作者和移动应用程序的用户。大约1000名青年广播学生将在三年内通过对应用程序开发、广播制作和数字徽章的创建做出贡献来参与该项目。多媒体工具包将在全国范围内向STEM教育工作者传播，具有很大的潜在影响。

This full scale/collaborative research project targets underserved youth who will collaborate with STEM professionals to co-create community-relevant technology and media content creating a potentially scalable model. App Lab DIY is collaboration between Youth Radio, MIT Media Labs Center for Mobile Learning, and the Mozilla Foundation.There are multiple and well integrated project strategies. Youth working with professionals will design, create, and disseminate original apps that engage users around community issues (e.g. urban wildlife mapping; Community DNA). They will work directly with the MIT Media Lab/Mobile Learning Center to improve App Inventor, an open-source tool. Youth participants will create media content for national on-air and online outlets including NPR. They will design digital badges to validate and document what they've learned creating media and apps. Curricular resources and tools for educators will be created and disseminated to advance STEM learning among underserved youth.Deliverables include: 1)creation of three apps (media-rich, STEM-relevant, community valued) that engage communities; 2)improvements in App Inventor, MIT's open-source tool that democratizes app develop for and by all; 3)radio stories that are integrated with the apps; 4)a multimedia toolkit for informal and formal educators to adapt in their programs; 5)a pilot badging system to mark mastery of skills associated with youth-driven media production and technological innovation; and 6)a research study focusing on the use of app development to drive STEM learning and engagement among underserved youth. Original research will be conducted by an embedded Scholar-in-Residence to inform and advance the field about driving STEM engagement via media/tech innovation. The Scholar-in-Residence will use Participant-Action-Research to inform and improve practice and study the big general questions about how the program works and why.The evaluation will leverage the instruments and methods established in Youth Radio's past NSF grants to study the impact on the youth's skills, knowledge and attitudes. They will also study impacts on two additional audiences: educators using the multimedia toolkit and users of the mobile apps.Approximate 1000 Youth Radio students will participate in the project over the three years through contributions to app development, radio production, and digital badges' creation. The multimedia toolkit will be nationally disseminated to STEM educators with a large potential reach.