The Youth Digital Storytelling STEM Academy

该项目将开发一种以学生为导向的干预措施，利用对动机的研究，鼓励学生对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）相关的气候科学领域的兴趣和参与。干预措施旨在让学生有机会使用视频讲故事，以有意义的方式为他们的社区讲述自己的故事。通过这种经验，学生将发展在气候科学，工程设计，媒体技术和通信，包括讲故事的能力。该计划将重点关注中学生，这是STEM兴趣发展的关键年龄，他们来自传统上在STEM劳动力中代表性不足的地理区域。学生们将制作由来自圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）的科学和视觉艺术教师和学生支持的视频。中学教师将参加为期一周的暑期讲习班，重点是发展科学和电影制作技能，以实施干预。在拟议的项目期间，60名教师和至少2,000名学生将直接参与该项目，并参加项目电影节的家长，朋友和教师的额外参与。学生将提交他们的最终电影连同数字组合，其中包括支持科学和职业连接到项目电影节。选定的电影将在科技博物馆放映，并在YouTube上播放。该项目将使用基于迭代设计的研究方法，研究如何利用数字技术、讲故事和与STEM相关的气候科学领域，帮助传统上服务不足的学生识别STEM领域和职业。学生将在他们的中学科学课上参加该计划，由他们训练有素的教师，大学生导师指导。将设计一套在线教学视频，以支持教师和学生的学习。收集的数据来源，包括前/后学生调查，课堂观察，学生访谈和外部评价的电影和数字组合将被用来通知和修改项目设计，并了解到什么程度和性质的预期项目的影响。通过这一项目制作的材料，包括录像和教学材料，将在网上提供，从而支持在其他教室推广这一教育模式。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）计划资助，该计划支持建立对最佳实践，计划要素，背景和过程的理解的项目，有助于让学生参与学习和培养对STEM，信息和通信技术（ICT），计算机科学以及相关STEM内容和职业的兴趣。

The project will develop a student-directed intervention that leverages research on motivation to encourage student interest and engagement in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)-related field of climate science. The intervention is designed to give students the opportunity to use video storytelling to tell their own stories in a meaningful way for their communities. Through this experience, students will develop competencies in climate science, engineering design, media technology, and communications including storytelling. The program will focus on middle school students, a critical age for the development of STEM interest, who are from geographical areas traditionally underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Students will produce videos supported by teachers and students from San Jose State University (SJSU) from the sciences and visual arts. Middle school teachers will attend a one-week summer workshop focused on developing the science and filmmaking skills to implement the intervention. During the proposed project, 60 teachers and at least 2,000 students will directly participate in the project, with additional participation from parents, friends, and teachers who attend the project film festival. Students will submit their final films together with a digital portfolio that includes the supporting science and career connections to the project film festival. Selected films will be screened at The Tech Museum and featured on YouTube. The project will use an iterative design-based research approach to study how digital technology, storytelling and the STEM-related field of climate science can be used to help traditionally underserved students identify with STEM fields and careers. Students will participate in the program in their middle school science class, guided by their trained teachers, university student mentors. A set of online instructional videos will be designed to support teacher and student learning. A collection of data sources including pre/post student surveys, classroom observations, student interviews and external evaluations of the films and digital portfolios will be used to inform and revise the project design, and to understand to what extent and nature of intended project impacts. The materials produced through this project, including videos and instructional materials, will be available online and thus support replication of this educational model in other classrooms. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program that supports projects that build understandings of best practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to engaging students in learning and developing interest in STEM, information and communications technology (ICT), computer science, and related STEM content and careers.