DIP: Connecting Idea Threads across Communities for Sustained Knowledge Building

DIP：连接社区之间的想法线索以实现持续的知识构建

• 批准号: 1441479
• 负责人: Jianwei Zhang
• 金额: $ 134.25万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 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 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DIP; Connecting; Idea; Threads; across

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that will help in envisioning the next generation of learning technologies and advancing what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. Development and Implementation (DIP) Projects build on proof-of-concept work that showed the possibilities of the proposed new type of learning technology, and project teams build and refine a minimally-viable example of their proposed innovation that allows them to understand how such technology should be designed and used in the future and to answer questions about how people learn with technology. An important issue in education is encouraging learners to engage in sustained inquiry around important content and helping them to continually refine their understandings. Technology already exists to help communities of learners (e.g., those in a class) keep track of the ideas they are generating and refining. The innovation in this project will help groups of learners make two kinds of connections: (i) between the different discussions they are having across topical areas and (ii) between the ideas they are discussing and those that groups in other classes are discussing. The project team's earlier Cyberlearning Exploration (EXP) project showed that such connections gives rise to curiosity and new learning goals as well as deeper understanding. It is expected that technology that makes these connections easier to identify will also make it easier for students to refer back to what they learned in previous years' classes and to refine their earlier understandings. Knowledge building is the collaborative refinement of ideas by a community. The goal in knowledge building is to engage learners in sustained inquiry and progressive discourse through which ideas are continually developed and refined, giving rise to higher-level learning goals. The aim in this project is to design and build support for knowledge building across communities and across time, connecting communities into a shared field in which shared bases of knowledge co-advance with each other and across communities (e.g., across classes addressing similar issues; across years of school). Students kick off their inquiry by importing productive idea threads from other classrooms as inquiry starters, then co-review with others, access others' ideas as they move forward, and engage in live interactions with partnering communities. The knowledge building platform being developed for use across communities is called CITY (Connecting Idea Threads or Youth). Automated analysis developed during the previous Cyberlearning EXP project helps groups within a single class visualize their idea threads and thread idea threads with each other. The automated process is being extended with language processing algorithms that can identify conversations in other communities that have potential to be useful in extending a group's understanding. The project team, which includes experts in collaborative learning, computational linguistics, and self-regulation, is aiming to learn how to make the technology work across communities, to understand how to use such technology to sustain engagement with and refinement of ideas, and the qualities the surrounding socio-technical system needs to have for such sustained and distributed knowledge building to happen.

网络学习和未来学习技术计划资助的努力，将有助于设想下一代学习技术和推进我们所知道的人们如何在技术丰富的环境中学习。开发和实施（DIP）项目建立在概念验证工作的基础上，展示了拟议的新型学习技术的可能性，项目团队建立并完善了他们提出的创新的最低可行性示例，使他们能够了解未来应该如何设计和使用这种技术，并回答有关人们如何使用技术学习的问题。教育中的一个重要问题是鼓励学习者围绕重要内容进行持续的探究，并帮助他们不断完善自己的理解。技术已经存在，以帮助学习者的社区（例如，那些在一个类）保持跟踪的想法，他们正在产生和提炼。这个项目的创新将帮助学习者群体建立两种联系：（i）他们在各个主题领域进行的不同讨论之间的联系;（ii）他们正在讨论的想法与其他班级正在讨论的想法之间的联系。项目团队早期的网络学习探索（EXP）项目表明，这种联系会引起好奇心和新的学习目标以及更深入的理解。预计，使这些联系更容易识别的技术也将使学生更容易回顾他们在前几年课堂上学到的东西，并完善他们以前的理解。知识构建是社区对想法的协作提炼。知识建设的目标是让学习者参与持续的探究和进步的话语，通过这些话语，思想不断发展和完善，从而产生更高层次的学习目标。该项目的目的是设计和建立对跨社区和跨时间知识建设的支持，将社区连接到一个共享领域，在这个领域中，共享的知识基础相互之间和跨社区共同发展（例如，跨班级解决类似问题;跨学年）。学生通过从其他教室导入富有成效的想法线程作为调查启动器来启动他们的调查，然后与他人共同审查，在前进时访问他人的想法，并与合作社区进行实时互动。正在开发的跨社区使用的知识建设平台被称为城市（连接思想线索或青年）。 在以前的Cyberlearning EXP项目中开发的自动分析帮助单个班级中的小组可视化他们的想法线程，并将想法线程相互关联。 自动化过程正在通过语言处理算法进行扩展，这些算法可以识别其他社区中的对话，这些对话可能有助于扩大一个群体的理解。 该项目团队包括协作学习，计算语言学和自我调节方面的专家，旨在学习如何使该技术在社区中发挥作用，了解如何使用这种技术来维持参与和改进想法，以及周围的社会技术系统需要具备的素质。