EAGER: Building Learning in Urban Extended Spaces

在这个由“网络学习：改变教育”资助的EAGER项目中，pi正在迈出第一步，了解如何利用城市档案，在记录他们居住的地方有趣的历史、地理、公民等背景下，吸引城市青年参与探究和表达活动。这项工作正在田纳西州的纳什维尔进行。它是由范德比尔特大学和纳什维尔市共同努力的，以乡村音乐名人堂和纳什维尔图书馆系统为代表。该项目利用人们如何学习的已知知识，为技术和教学法的设计提供信息，以支持“基于地方的教育”——利用学习者居住的地方促进学习并维持他们的参与。在这种基于地点的教育方法中，学习者正在学习博物馆和图书馆馆长的策展实践，并利用这些实践来学习他们城市的历史，以及如何综合信息来源，并以吸引和教育他人的方式表达自己。关于青年创作及其促进学习的潜力，以及为城市居民和游客带来有趣的城市和文化档案财富的新知识正在被创造出来。社交媒体和“策展”应用吸引了许多年轻人的兴趣。该项目的pi认识到这些技术的潜力，以及年轻人在策划馆藏方面的利益，以促进历史、公民、地理和其他内容的学习，同时学习综合各种信息来源并很好地表达自己。他们设想了一种新的非正式课外学习环境的技术和社会技术基础设施，在这种环境中，技术为学习者探索他们城市的档案提供结构和帮助，并撰写引人入胜的故事来教授他人，而社会和互动结构（教学法）使学习者能够参与讲述他们城市的故事。这项工作是及时的，因为将位置感知媒体与移动、个人信息设备结合在一起的工具正在迅速变得更加强大和复杂。通过本项目和后续项目创建的工具设计和教学方法将适用于支持全国乃至全球的正式和非正式青年倡议。

In this Cyberlearning: Transforming Education-funded EAGER Project, the PIs are carrying out first steps in understanding how to use the archives of cities to draw inner-city youth into inquiry and expressive activities in the context of documenting the interesting history, geography, civics, and so on, of the places they live. The work is being carried out in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a collaborative effort of Vanderbilt University and city of Nashville, represented by The Country Music Hall of Fame and The Nashville Library System. The project uses what is known about how people learn to inform the design of technology and pedagogy in support of "place-based education" -- education that takes advantage of the place where learners live to promote learning and sustain their engagement. In this approach to place-based education, learners are taking on the curatorial practices of museum and library curators and using those practices to learn both the history of their city and also how to synthesize across information sources and express themselves in ways that are engaging and educational for others. New knowledge is being created about youth authoring and its potential for promoting learning and also about bringing the wealth of interesting city and cultural archives to the people who live in a city and its visitors.Social media and "curation" applications have drawn the interest of many youth. The PIs in this project recognize potential in these technologies and in the interests of young people in curating collections for promoting learning of history, civics, geography, and other content and at the same time learning to synthesize across information sources and express themselves well. They envision a technical and socio-technical infrastructure for a new kind of informal after-school learning environment in which technology provides structure and aid as learners explore the archives of their city and compose compelling narratives to teach others, and social and interaction structures (the pedagogy) empower learners to engage in telling the stories of their city. The work is timely, as the tools that bring location-aware media together with mobile, personal information devices are becoming more capable and sophisticated at a rapid rate. The tool designs and pedagogy that are created through this project and follow-on projects will be applicable to supporting youth initiatives, both formal and informal, throughout our country and internationally.