EAGER: Paper Mechatronics: Creating High-Low Tech Design Kits to Promote Engineering Education

EAGER：纸机电一体化：创建高科技设计套件以促进工程教育

• 批准号: 1451463
• 负责人: Darrell Porcello
• 金额: $ 23.29万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2014-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1451463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Paper; Mechatronics; Creating; Low

The Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies Program funds efforts that support envisioning the future of learning technologies and advance what we know about how people learn in technology-rich environments. In this Cyberlearning EAGER project, the project team is developing foundations for using "paper mechatronics" as a learning technology. Paper mechatronics makes possible a craft-oriented approach to engineering and computing education that integrates key concepts from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control systems, and computer programming, while using paper as the primary material for learner design, exploration, and inquiry. In this approach, learners will design foldable paper components and assemblies; program motors, sensors and controls; test their ideas iteratively; and share their designs on a website. This paper-based modeling approach to learning concepts in and practices of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, control systems, and computer programming ultimately aims to make it possible for all learners to have exposure to and the opportunity to participate in creative engineering, design, and computer programming.The approach to learning through designing and making through paper mechatronics is made possible by a convergence of many different technological factors -- the array of small computers, sensors, and actuators that are becoming available at low cost and a size that children can use; availability of a wide variety of manipulable conductive materials (threads, paints, fabrics); low-cost and precise desktop and laser cutters for paper and similar materials; a wide variety of novel paper-like materials; and new ways of interacting with the computer. The approach has its foundations in Papert's constructionism and in the current maker movement, but it has potential beyond constructionism itself, both in practice and with respect to what can potentially be learned about learning and development in in context of its use. During the course of the proposed project, the team is addressing a variety of issues -- theoretical (e.g., extending the constructionist approach to take into account the kinds of embodied experiences children can have with the proposed kinds of materials), disciplinary (e.g., which disciplinary content learning and interdisciplinary connection making might this kind of making best support and for which populations), technological, and pragmatic ones. They will identify both the design goals and the research questions that it makes the most sense to take on in a more mature project. Work on this project will lay the foundations for extending theories of computationally-based expressive technologies, design of constructionist-oriented learning environments, and assessing creativity, self-efficacy, engagement, and conceptual understanding of electro-mechanical systems with school-aged learners,

网络学习和未来学习技术计划为支持设想学习技术的未来并推进我们对人们如何在技术丰富的环境中学习的了解的努力提供资金。在这个Cyberlearning EAGER项目中，项目团队正在开发使用“纸机电一体化”作为学习技术的基础。纸机电一体化使以工艺为导向的工程和计算教育方法成为可能，该方法集成了机械工程，电气工程，控制系统和计算机编程的关键概念，同时使用纸张作为学习者设计，探索和探究的主要材料。在这种方法中，学习者将设计可折叠的纸部件和组件;编程电机，传感器和控制;迭代测试他们的想法;并在网站上分享他们的设计。这种基于纸张的建模方法来学习机械工程，电气工程，控制系统和计算机编程的概念和实践，最终目的是使所有学习者都有机会接触和参与创造性的工程，设计，和计算机编程。通过设计学习的方法和通过纸机电一体化制造是通过许多不同的融合成为可能技术因素-一系列小型计算机、传感器和致动器正在以低成本和儿童可以使用的尺寸出现;各种各样可操纵的导电材料（线、颜料、织物）的出现;用于纸张和类似材料的低成本和精确的台式和激光切割机;各种各样新颖的纸状材料;以及与计算机互动的新方式。该方法的基础是帕普特的建构主义和当前的制造者运动，但它具有超越建构主义本身的潜力，无论是在实践中还是在使用它的背景下，都可以潜在地了解学习和发展。在拟议项目的过程中，该团队正在解决各种问题-理论（例如，扩展建构主义方法以考虑儿童对所提出的材料种类可能具有的具体体验的种类），学科（例如，哪些学科内容的学习和跨学科的联系可能是这种最好的支持，以及对哪些人群），技术和实用的。他们将确定在一个更成熟的项目中最有意义的设计目标和研究问题。该项目的工作将为扩展基于计算的表达技术的理论奠定基础，设计以建构主义为导向的学习环境，并评估创造力，自我效能感，参与度和学龄学习者对机电系统的概念理解，