EAGER: Building Learning in Urban Extended Spaces

在这个网络学习中：通过教育资助的EAGER项目，PI正在了解如何利用城市档案吸引内城青年参与调查和表达活动，记录他们居住地有趣的历史，地理，公民等。这项工作正在田纳西州的纳什维尔进行。这是范德比尔特大学和纳什维尔市的合作努力，由乡村音乐名人堂和纳什维尔图书馆系统代表。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和保持参与的教育。在这种基于地方的教育方法中，学习者正在采取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，以及如何综合各种信息来源，并以吸引人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，以及将有趣的城市和文化档案财富带给城市居民和游客的新知识正在形成，社交媒体和“策展”应用程序吸引了许多青年的兴趣。该项目中的PI认识到这些技术的潜力，以及年轻人在策划收藏以促进历史，公民，地理和其他内容的学习方面的利益，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后学习环境的技术和社会技术基础设施，在这种环境中，技术提供了结构和帮助，因为学习者探索他们城市的档案，并撰写引人注目的叙述来教导他人，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的、个人信息设备结合在一起的工具正以快速的速度变得越来越强大和复杂。通过该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我国和国际上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.