SBIR Phase I: Mobile Hands-On Empirical Solution in Science Education for Secondary School

SBIR第一阶段：中学科学教育中的移动动手实践解决方案

• 批准号: 1549274
• 负责人: Ahmad Zaatari
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Ideation Systems, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1549274&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Mobile; Hands; Empirical

This SBIR Phase I project is developing a new technology-based learning ecosystem to engage secondary students in STEM learning through in-class participatory and self-paced experiments that facilitate discovery and bridge abstract concepts to concrete real world learning experiences. More graduates are urgently needed in the STEM fields; this shift will begin with nurturing an interest in the sciences in the minds of youth at the pre-collegial level. This project is designed to strengthen students' confidence in undertaking the difficult challenges inherent in the STEM fields and to enhance their ability to imagine solutions beyond the classroom. The integrated classroom hardware solution being devised will have plug-and-play simplicity with modular data collection sensors and integrated lesson plans that work together to make learning more tangible. Compatibility with students? smartphones and tablets will make adoption easier and further reduce cost. The project is readily commercializable and expandable with a subscription-based business model. The NSF mission of supporting STEM progress for the broadest educational and social benefits guides this project. It addresses the imperative social need to prepare the next generation to effectively solve STEM problems that have global implications, such as climate change and formulating renewable energy sources.STEM teachers have expressed the need for hands-on learning tools that do not tax their fleeting time by requiring extensive system-level know-how, that fit their shrinking budgets, that avoid build on top of legacy hardware platforms, and that are wireless and portable. This project will yield a new and affordable technology to bring the Internet of Things and cloud-based research and learning into the science classroom. Innovative and flexible sensor hardware will provide reliability in measurement, true portability, tailored functionality, ease of use and reuse, and expandability. The hardware will have a lean modular design (to avoid equipment redundancies) and will be interoperable across multiple scientific disciplines and across topics within the same discipline. Importantly, it will fulfill the market need for hands-on STEM classroom learning experiences at an affordable price point. Integrated with focused lab problems for targeted STEM instruction, these sensors will optimize size, functionality, usability, reliability, and power consumption to achieve required needs. As the hardware/lesson plan ecosystem gets further refined over the course of this project, the project team will engage ongoing teacher feedback to most effectively guide development through initial design, prototype production, class implementation and feedback, technical and pedagogical review, and future recommendations.

这个SBIR第一阶段项目正在开发一个新的以技术为基础的学习生态系统，通过课堂参与和自定进度的实验，让中学生参与STEM学习，这些实验有助于发现抽象概念，并将抽象概念与具体的真实的世界学习体验联系起来。STEM领域迫切需要更多的毕业生;这一转变将开始，在大学预科阶段培养年轻人对科学的兴趣。该项目旨在加强学生在承担STEM领域固有的困难挑战方面的信心，并提高他们在课堂之外想象解决方案的能力。正在设计的集成教室硬件解决方案将具有即插即用的简单性，具有模块化数据收集传感器和集成的课程计划，这些传感器和计划共同工作，使学习更加有形。与学生的兼容性？智能手机和平板电脑将使采用更容易，并进一步降低成本。该项目是容易商业化和可扩展的订阅为基础的商业模式。NSF的使命是支持STEM进步，以获得最广泛的教育和社会效益，这一使命指导着该项目。它解决了迫切的社会需求，以准备下一代有效地解决具有全球影响的STEM问题，如气候变化和制定可再生能源。STEM教师表示需要动手学习工具，这些工具不需要大量的系统级专业知识，适合他们不断缩小的预算，避免建立在传统硬件平台之上，并且是无线和便携的。该项目将产生一种新的、负担得起的技术，将物联网和基于云的研究和学习带入科学课堂。创新和灵活的传感器硬件将提供测量的可靠性，真正的便携性，定制的功能，易于使用和重复使用，以及可扩展性。硬件将采用精益模块化设计（以避免设备冗余），并将在多个科学学科和同一学科内的多个主题之间实现互操作。重要的是，它将以合理的价格满足市场对动手STEM课堂学习体验的需求。这些传感器与针对目标STEM教学的重点实验室问题相结合，将优化尺寸、功能、可用性、可靠性和功耗，以满足所需的需求。随着硬件/课程计划生态系统在本项目的过程中得到进一步完善，项目团队将通过初始设计，原型制作，课堂实施和反馈，技术和教学审查以及未来建议来进行持续的教师反馈，以最有效地指导开发。