Design Squad Global

全球设计团队

• 批准号: 1422236
• 负责人: Marisa Wolsky
• 金额: $ 273.5万
• 依托单位: WGBH Educational Foundation
• 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: 2014-09-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1422236&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Design; Squad; Global

This project will help address the urgent need for a new engineering workforce. Middle school students will be entering a workforce that is increasingly global. They will need not only technical skills but also global competencies including: the ability to investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas, and take action. This model integrates engineering with global competencies and will provide new knowledge about how this type of learning experience impacts students and educators.This project builds on the success of the previous Design Squad project funded by NSF and developed by WGBH, which has implemented a national model for engineering education for middle school youth. This project expands the model internationally, connecting U.S. based youth with those in Southern Africa (including South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland). The project partners are FHI 360, a non-profit organization in 60 countries around the world that helps build capacity for improving lives. They will facilitate the implementation of the afterschool programs in Southern Africa . The US dissemination partners include Promise Neighborhoods Institute, Middle Start, Every Hour Counts, and the National Girls Collaborative Project. Project deliverables include a global engineering curriculum; a web platform with videos, games, activities; an afterschool Club Guide; and a Community of Practice for informal engineering educators.A knowledge building component will provide new evidence on how high quality accessible resources and strategies can impact students' development of global competencies and engineering skills to solve real world problems. An iterative approach will be used to develop the resources including the global engineering afterschool curriculum, Club guide, and other components. The methodology uses a continuous cycle of improvement including: assess/design, test/ implement, synthesize/reflect, and utilize/disseminate. The Summative Evaluation will generate evidence about whether and how this kind of collaborative work builds children's understanding of engineering, motivation to participate, and confidence in taking informed action on behalf of pressing global problems. This will contribute to a larger body of work about whether and how engaging with global, collaborative engineering problems leads to greater self-efficacy for children with very different backgrounds, experiences, and opportunities. This project will add new knowledge about how the well-honed Design Squad model in the U.S. can be expanded with a global context and global partners. This proposal was co-funded by EHR/DRL, Engineering/EEC, and International Science and Engineering.During the project period approximately 125,000 children in the US and 5000 children in southern Africa will be reached. In the long term, with the continued global access to the resources, the reach will potentially be in the millions.

该项目将有助于解决对新的工程劳动力的迫切需求。中学生将进入一个日益全球化的劳动力大军。他们不仅需要技术技能，还需要全球能力，包括：调查世界、识别观点、交流想法和采取行动的能力。该模式将工程学与全球能力相结合，并将提供关于这种类型的学习体验如何影响学生和教育工作者的新知识。该项目建立在由NSF资助并由WGBH开发的先前Design Squad项目的成功基础上，该项目实施了面向中学青年的全国工程学教育模式。该项目将该模式扩展到国际上，将美国青年与南部非洲(包括南非、博茨瓦纳和斯威士兰)的青年联系起来。项目合作伙伴是FHI 360，这是一个在全球60个国家帮助建设改善生活能力的非营利性组织。它们将促进南部非洲课外项目的实施。美国的传播合作伙伴包括Promise Neighhood Institute、MidStart、Every Hour Counts和National Girls Collaborative Project。项目成果包括一个全球工程课程；一个包含视频、游戏和活动的网络平台；一个课后俱乐部指南；以及一个面向非正式工程教育人员的实践社区。一个知识建设部分将提供新的证据，说明高质量的可获得资源和战略如何影响学生的全球能力和工程技能的发展，以解决现实世界的问题。将使用迭代方法来开发资源，包括全球工程课外课程、俱乐部指南和其他组成部分。该方法采用了一个持续的改进循环，包括：评估/设计、测试/实施、综合/反映和利用/传播。终结性评估将产生证据，证明这种协作工作是否以及如何建立儿童对工程学的理解、参与的动机以及代表紧迫的全球问题采取知情行动的信心。这将有助于更多关于参与全球协作工程问题是否以及如何为具有非常不同背景、经历和机会的儿童带来更大自我效能的工作。这个项目将增加关于如何通过全球背景和全球合作伙伴扩展在美国经过良好磨练的Design Squad模式的新知识。这项计划是由EHR/DRL、Engineering/EEC和International Science and Engineering共同资助的。在项目期间，美国将有大约125,000名儿童和南部非洲的5,000名儿童得到帮助。从长远来看，随着全球继续获得资源，覆盖范围可能会达到数百万。