Robotics and E-Textiles Backpacks for Family Learning

图书馆在社区中发挥着至关重要的作用，不仅是为了获得印刷媒体，而且是家庭节目和互联网。由于图书馆在当地社区的广泛存在和所服务的不同社区，图书馆有能力解决在获得技术、家庭计划和合作空间方面的不平等问题。科学中心、大学和社区中心代表着可以与图书馆合作创建科学和技术相关内容以交付给不同社区的资源。研究已经牢固地建立了家长参与和广泛的学生学术成果之间的联系，包括更高的学生出勤率，成绩和毕业率。 越来越多的校外科学学习研究关注家庭在校外学习科学的丰富多样的方式，包括思维习惯、动机和科学家身份。试点工作表明，背包有潜力让年轻人和父母承担与STEM工作相关的新角色，父母或年长的兄弟姐妹承担实验室合作伙伴，翻译甚至教师的角色。机器人和电子纺织品项目将支持图书馆和社区中心提高能力，为自己社区的家庭举办机器人研讨会。 图书馆和社区中心将成为家庭参与机器人和电子纺织品的载体，从而使更多的人更广泛地接触到下一代科学标准的工程实践。这个创新发展项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和发展的新方法和基于证据的理解。图书馆员和社区参与领导人将参与专业经验，以发展科学和技术内容和促进技能。与项目合作伙伴合作的大学研究人员将使用基于设计的研究方法来迭代设计专业发展和背包计划，并调查学习过程和结果。文化学习途径理论模型将指导研究如何参与机器人/电子纺织品的经验可以导致实践，身份的变化，并在实践社区的图书馆员，青年和家庭的一部分更深入的参与。尽管公共图书馆和非正式科学提供者之间的合作越来越普遍，但本项目将记录这种合作的发展过程，并得出可应用于其他情况的见解。通过将传统和非传统社区组织聚集在一起，开发和促进STEM学习经验，该项目有可能为非正式STEM教育的分散系统和扩大STEM参与带来新的模式。在项目实施期间，合作图书馆的数量将从一个增加到四个，预计将覆盖550多个家庭。它是通过华盛顿大学、太平洋科学中心、西雅图公共图书馆和红鹰翱翔（一个美国土著社区青年计划）之间的伙伴关系进行的。

Libraries serve vital roles in communities not only for access to print media but also family programming and access to the internet. Because of their widespread local presence in communities and the diverse communities served, libraries are well-positioned to address inequalities in access to technology, family programming, and spaces for collaboration. Science centers, universities, and community centers represent resources that can partner with libraries to create science and technology-related content for delivery to diverse communities. Research has firmly established the link between parent engagement and a broad range of student academic outcomes, including higher student attendance, achievement and graduation rates. A growing body of research in out-of-school science learning is focusing on the rich and varied ways in which families learn science outside of school, including habits of mind, motivation, and identities as scientists. Pilot work showed that backpacks have the potential for youth and parents to take on new roles relative to STEM work, with parents or older siblings taking on roles of lab partners, translators, and even teachers. The Robotics and E-Textiles project will support increased capacity within libraries and community centers to hold robotics workshops for families in their own communities. Libraries and community centers will serve as vehicles through which families engage with robotics and e-textiles, resulting in wider access to Next Generation Science Standards' engineering practices to more people. This Innovations in Development project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments.Librarians and community engagement leaders will participate in professional experiences to develop science and technology content and facilitation skills. University researchers in collaboration with project partners will use a design-based research methodology to iteratively design the professional development and backpack programs and to investigate learning processes and outcomes. The Cultural Learning Pathways theoretical model will guide the study of how engagement with robotics/e-textiles experiences can lead to changes in practice, identity, and deeper participation in communities of practice on the part of librarians, youth, and families. Although collaborations between public libraries and informal science providers are becoming increasingly common, this project will document the process of developing such collaborations and draw insights that may be applied to other contexts. By bringing together traditional and non-traditional community organizations to develop and facilitate STEM learning experiences, this project has the potential for resulting in a new model for a decentralized system of informal STEM education and broadening participation in STEM. Over the life of the project, the number of partner libraries will expand from one to four, and it is anticipated to reach more than 550 families. It is being conducted through a partnership between the University of Washington, the Pacific Science Center, the Seattle Public Libraries, and Red Eagle Soaring, a Native American community youth program.