SBIR Phase I: Using Real-Time, Synchronous Collaborative Technologies to Support Elementary and Middle School Students in Developing Reading, Writing, and Collaboration Skills

SBIR第一阶段：利用实时、同步协作技术支持中小学生培养阅读、写作和协作技能

• 批准号: 1415774
• 负责人: Liz Nealon
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: StarWalk Kids Media
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1415774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Using; Real; Time

THIS SBIR Phase I project's broader/commercial impact is to raise the bar for the educational technology industry and for K-8 classrooms. While classrooms today generally make do with a collection of unrelated applications, this project provides a coherent, cohesive suite of apps that squarely support the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as well as the Next-Generation Science Standards. In addition, the technology which will power the suite of apps will enable students to collaborate even when they are not located in the same place, both writing onscreen and talking together. This kind of distance collaboration and sharing of information are important features of 21st century literacy skills and eventual workforce readiness. With the accompanying professional development materials and the step-by-step guides designed to support educators in using the materials in their classrooms, this project is well positioned to be adopted nationwide.The project addresses a pressing, national need to improve reading skills amongst children in grades 3-8, especially in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The strategy is to use low-cost, Internet-connected, mobile computing devices ? technology that children find exceedingly engaging as well as increasingly available ? as the anchoring platform upon which to build a collaborative learning environment. This project will support writing to read, writing for an audience and writing collaboratively, three strategies that have been shown to produce positive gains in both reading and writing skills. More specifically, this project will offer a complete suite of tools that will enable the target population of students (grades 3-8) to read mentor texts (professionally-written examples of quality nonfiction writing), to collaborate with peers in a safe, engaging environment, to create multi-media projects that develop both verbal and visual literacy skills, and to publish and share their work over the Internet. The impact of these activities on the amount and quality of student engagement in reading, writing and collaboration activities will be empirically assessed. To better prepare teachers to use this project, educators will be provided with curricular and professional development materials.

该 SBIR 第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响是提高教育技术行业和 K-8 教室的标准。虽然今天的课堂通常使用一系列不相关的应用程序，但该项目提供了一套连贯、有凝聚力的应用程序，完全支持共同核心国家标准 (CCSS) 以及下一代科学标准。此外，为这套应用程序提供支持的技术将使学生即使不在同一个地方也能进行协作，在屏幕上书写并一起交谈。这种远程协作和信息共享是 21 世纪读写技能和最终劳动力准备的重要特征。凭借随附的专业发展材料以及旨在支持教育工作者在课堂上使用这些材料的分步指南，该项目非常适合在全国范围内采用。该项目解决了提高 3-8 年级儿童阅读技能的迫切需求，特别是在科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 学科中。该策略是使用低成本、联网的移动计算设备 ?孩子们觉得非常有吸引力并且越来越可用的技术？作为构建协作学习环境的锚定平台。该项目将支持为阅读而写作、为读者写作和协作写作，这三种策略已被证明可以在阅读和写作技能方面产生积极的效果。更具体地说，该项目将提供一整套工具，使目标学生群体（3-8 年级）能够阅读导师文本（专业撰写的优质非小说类写作示例），在安全、有吸引力的环境中与同龄人合作，创建可培养语言和视觉读写能力的多媒体项目，并通过互联网发布和分享他们的作品。这些活动对学生参与阅读、写作和协作活动的数量和质量的影响将进行实证评估。为了更好地帮助教师做好使用该项目的准备，将为教育工作者提供课程和专业发展材料。