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，不仅可以获得印刷媒体，还可以获得家庭节目和访问互联网。由于图书馆在社区和不同社区的广泛存在，图书馆在解决技术获取、家庭节目和合作空间方面的不平等问题方面处于有利地位。科学中心、大学和社区中心代表了可以与图书馆合作创建科学和技术相关内容的资源，以交付给不同的社区。研究已经牢固地确立了家长参与与广泛的学生学业成绩之间的联系，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集中在家庭在校外学习科学的丰富多样的方式上，包括思维习惯、动机和作为科学家的身份。试点工作表明，背包有可能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可以扮演实验伙伴、翻译甚至老师的角色。机器人和电子纺织品项目将支持图书馆和社区中心增加为其所在社区的家庭举办机器人讲习班的能力。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，使更多的人能够更广泛地接触到下一代科学标准的工程实践。该发展创新项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发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，以发展科技内容和促进技能。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。文化学习路径理论模型将指导研究与机器人/电子纺织品经验的接触如何导致实践、身份的变化，以及图书馆员、青年和家庭在实践社区中的更深入参与。尽管公共图书馆和非正式科学提供者之间的合作正变得越来越普遍，但这个项目将记录发展这种合作的过程，并得出可能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，该项目有可能形成一种分散的非正式STEM教育体系的新模式，并扩大STEM的参与范围。在项目的整个生命周期内，合作图书馆的数量将从一个增加到四个，预计将惠及550多个家庭。该项目由华盛顿大学、太平洋科学中心、西雅图公共图书馆和美国土著社区青年项目“红鹰翱翔”合作开展。

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.