EXP: Collaborative Research: Smart Spaces for Making: Networked Physical Tools to Support Process Documentation and Learning

这个探索性学习研究和设计项目将研究如何使用新兴技术来帮助记录基于创客的学习经验中的实践。尽管项目文档具有巩固学习和意义构建的潜力，但它经常被忽视，没有优先考虑或被视为负担，因此没有集成到学习经验中。项目团队试图通过系统地探索如何将智能工具和文档实践物理地嵌入和合并到学习环境中，特别是创造性的动手学习空间，如创客空间，来理解和解决实践合作伙伴在文档化方面的障碍。目标是了解如何通过在行动展开时在空间中嵌入支持性工具来帮助学习者更加意识、反思和关注他们在学习成果方面的进展。创客和创客学习体验为更充分地让不同类型的学习者参与STEM教育和建立一支为创新做好准备的劳动力队伍提供了巨大的机会。这些学习经验的文档，无论是作为专业人员参与的真实实践，还是作为教学的评估实践，通常都不受支持。该项目将为解决方案创建开源文档，并开发支持性案例研究、网络资源和指南，以促进有前途的方法的容易吸收和采用。该提案将在三个方面做出重要的研究贡献：(1)开发和迭代测试一套嵌入式“智能”工具，旨在支撑、管理和跟踪过程文档实践；(2)研究这些工具在正式和非正式活动和项目设置中的整合，并描述它们对教学和学习成果评估的影响；(3)建立一套基于学习者数据流的规则，以帮助指导和标记学习者的进步。改进记录实践和学习成果评估将推动制作成为STEM的核心教育活动。通过更好地理解为什么以及如何放置对空间、时间和上下文线索敏感的网络文档工具，可以在更广泛的设置范围内降低制定和脚手架使用的门槛。最终，这个探索性项目不仅将开发一套完整的文档工具，而且还将帮助我们开发文档作为中介过程如何有效地支持学习的假设。

This exploratory learning research and design project will study how to use emerging technologies to help document practices in maker-based learning experiences. Despite its established potential for consolidating learning and sense-making, project documentation is often overlooked, not prioritized or seen as burdensome and therefore not integrated into the learning experiences. The project team seeks to understand and address with practice partners the barriers to documentation by systematically exploring how to physically embed and incorporate smart tools and documentation practices into learning environments, specifically creative hands-on learning spaces, like makerspaces. The goal is to understand how to scaffold learners to become more aware, reflective and attentive to their progress towards learning outcomes by embedding supportive tools physically in space as the actions unfold. Making and maker-based learning experiences offer tremendous opportunities to more fully engage diverse learners in STEM education and build a workforce prepared for innovation. Documentation of these learning experiences, both as an authentic practice that professionals engage in as well as an assessment practice for instruction, is often not supported. The project will create open source documentation for solutions and develop supporting case studies, web resources and guides to facilitate easy uptake and adoption of promising approaches.This proposal will make significant research contributions in three ways: (1) develop and iteratively test a suite of embedded "smart" tools designed to scaffold, manage and trace process documentation practices; (2) study the integration of these tools in formal and informal activities and programs settings and characterize their influence on instruction and the assessment of learning outcomes; (3) establish a set of rubrics based on learner data streams to aid instruction and mark learner progress. Improving documentation practices and the assessment of learning outcomes will advance making as a core STEM educational activity. Through a better understanding of why and how to place networked documentation tools sensitive to space, time and context cues, the threshold for enactment and scaffolded usage can be lowered in a broader range of settings. Ultimately, this exploratory project will not only develop an integrated set of situated documentation tools, but also help us develop hypotheses for how documentation as a mediating process productively supports learning.