EAGER: MAKER: Mobile Makerspaces for Children's Hospital Patients: Exploring Impact on Patients' Agency, Creative STEM Problem Solving and Physical Well-being

EAGER: MAKER：儿童医院患者的移动创客空间：探索对患者代理、创造性 STEM 问题解决和身体健康的影响

• 批准号: 1723380
• 负责人: Gokul Krishnan
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: WestEd
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1723380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; MAKER; Mobile; Makerspaces; Children

The Maker movement has grown considerably over the past decade, both in the USA and internationally. Several varieties of Making have been developed, but there are still many important questions to ask and research to conduct about how different programmatic structures may relate to the potential impact Maker programs can have on individuals and communities. WestEd, in collaboration with the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, the University of Michigan C. S. Mott Hospital Children's Hospital, and the Children's Hospital of Orange County, is conducting a year-long exploratory research study that will focus on the out-of-school learning by adolescents and young adults in children's hospitals. This research study will focus on mobile and dedicated Makerspaces in hospitals to support patients' learning. The application of Makerspaces to hospital environments is a unique opportunity to research a critical need of chronically ill individuals, i.e. to explore how Making can enhance patients' agency, creative STEM learning, and physical well-being. The proposed study is building on the prior work of the principal investigator and will: (1) examine the nature and processes of learning in children's hospitals; (2) revise the current design of the mobile Makerspace and the associated implementation model in response to variations in programmatic contexts across multiple hospital settings and disparate patients' conditions; and (3) investigate and test the effectiveness of the Makerspace approach as it relates to both patients' learning and health outcomes. The study would contribute to longer-term efforts to develop a comprehensive, scalable, and sustainable strategy to determine the programmatic viability of the mobile Makerspace approach across a more varied array of hospital settings. This project has the potential to have a much broader impact by reaching out to other isolated students beyond the hospital environment, including those in residential treatment facilities for behavioral and emotional problems, as well as those attending programs designed to help youth who have been in trouble with the law get back on track. This 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. This includes providing multiple pathways for broadening access to and engagement in STEM learning experiences, advancing innovative research on and assessment of STEM learning in informal environments, and developing understandings of deeper learning by participants.This project's goals are to contribute to the understanding of how to: (1) describe and measure the education and health impact of mobile Makerspaces on chronically ill patients, and (2) design and sustain implementation models in various hospital settings. Since a children's hospital is a challenging context to support a patient's learning, it is not typically conducive to learning. Patients are constantly interrupted by the demands of the illness, by the strict protocols that need to be adhered to, and by the medical staff who manage their exhaustive treatment regimens. The mobile Makerspace is intended to adjust the environment in deliberate ways, allowing researchers to study and observe what kinds of learning intervention models enable youth and young adults to recapture a sense of their own agency and enable them to see themselves as creators, and makers of things that improve their own and others' lives. The project will have two strands: one on learning and one on adaptation of the model. In the learning strand, the study will investigate how engaging with the Makerspace can enhance patients' learning by provoking their sense of curiosity, encouraging them to set up and pursue personal goals via invention, and inspiring them to feel more agentive in taking charge of their learning process i.e., development of affinity for and fluency in the ways of knowing, doing and being (the epistemologies and ontologies) of engineers or scientists. In the adaptation strand, they will identify challenges and opportunities for implementing Makerspaces and develop an implementation plan that provides a process for introducing Makerspaces into hospital settings.

在过去的十年中，创客运动在美国和国际上都有了长足的发展。 已经开发了几种不同的制作，但仍然有许多重要的问题要问，并进行研究，如何不同的程序结构可能与潜在的影响，制造商计划可以对个人和社区。 WestEd与Lucile Packard儿童医院、密歇根大学C。S.莫特医院儿童医院和橙子县儿童医院正在进行一项为期一年的探索性研究，重点是儿童医院青少年和年轻人的校外学习。这项研究将重点关注医院中的移动的专用创客空间，以支持患者的学习。 Makerspaces在医院环境中的应用是研究慢性病患者的关键需求的独特机会，即探索Making如何增强患者的代理，创造性STEM学习和身体健康。拟议的研究是建立在主要研究者先前的工作基础上的，将：（1）检查儿童医院学习的性质和过程;（2）修改移动的Makerspace的当前设计和相关的实施模型，以应对多个医院环境和不同患者条件下的方案背景变化;以及（3）调查和测试Makerspace方法的有效性，因为它与患者的学习和健康结果有关。该研究将有助于长期努力制定一项全面、可扩展和可持续的战略，以确定移动的创客空间方法在更多样化的医院环境中的可行性。 该项目有可能通过接触医院环境之外的其他孤立学生产生更广泛的影响，包括那些在行为和情绪问题的住宅治疗设施中的学生，以及那些参加旨在帮助那些陷入法律困境的青年的计划的学生。 该项目由推进非正式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。这包括提供多种途径，以扩大获得和参与STEM学习经验，推进非正式环境中STEM学习的创新研究和评估，以及发展参与者对深入学习的理解。该项目的目标是帮助理解如何：（1）描述和衡量移动的创客空间对慢性病患者的教育和健康影响，（2）设计和维持各种医院环境中的实施模式。由于儿童医院是一个具有挑战性的背景下，以支持病人的学习，它通常不利于学习。病人不断地被疾病的要求、需要遵守的严格协议以及管理他们详尽治疗方案的医务人员打断。移动的创客空间旨在以深思熟虑的方式调整环境，使研究人员能够研究和观察什么样的学习干预模式能够使青年和年轻人重新获得自己的主体感，并使他们能够将自己视为创造者，以及改善自己和他人生活的事物的制造者。 该项目将有两个方面：一个是学习，另一个是调整模式。 在学习链中，该研究将调查参与创客空间如何通过激发他们的好奇心来增强患者的学习，鼓励他们通过发明建立和追求个人目标，并激励他们在负责他们的学习过程中感到更加主动，即，发展对工程师或科学家的认识、行为和存在方式（认识论和本体论）的亲和力和流畅性。 在适应链中，他们将确定实施Makerspaces的挑战和机遇，并制定实施计划，为将Makerspaces引入医院环境提供流程。