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，利用动机研究来鼓励学生对气候科学的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）相关领域的兴趣和参与。干预的目的是让学生有机会使用视频讲故事，以一种有意义的方式为他们的社区讲述自己的故事。通过这些经历，学生将发展在气候科学、工程设计、媒体技术和包括讲故事在内的传播方面的能力。该计划将重点关注中学生，这是培养STEM兴趣的关键年龄段，他们来自传统上在STEM劳动力中代表性不足的地理区域。学生们将在圣何塞州立大学（SJSU）科学和视觉艺术专业的老师和学生的支持下制作视频。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，以实施干预措施。在拟议的项目中，60名教师和至少2000名学生将直接参与该项目，此外还有参加项目电影节的家长、朋友和老师的参与。学生们将提交他们的最终电影以及一个数字作品集，其中包括支持科学和职业与项目电影节的联系。入选影片将在科技博物馆放映，并在YouTube上播放。该项目将采用基于设计的迭代研究方法，研究如何利用数字技术、讲故事和气候科学的STEM相关领域，帮助传统上得不到充分服务的学生认同STEM领域和职业。学生们将在他们的中学科学课上参加这个项目，由他们训练有素的老师、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学生前后调查、课堂观察、学生访谈以及对电影和数字作品集的外部评估，将用于通知和修改项目设计，并了解预期项目影响的程度和性质。通过该项目制作的材料，包括视频和教学材料，将在网上提供，从而支持在其他教室复制这种教育模式。该项目由学生和教师创新技术体验（ITEST）项目资助，该项目支持建立对最佳实践、项目要素、背景和流程的理解，有助于吸引学生学习和培养对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.