I-Corps: Modular Microcontroller Prototyping Tools to Facilitate Learning and Collaboration

I-Corps：促进学习和协作的模块化微控制器原型设计工具

• 批准号: 1740380
• 负责人: Elizabeth DiSalvo
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2017-03-15 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1740380&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Modular; Microcontroller; Prototyping; Tools

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to make it easier for novices to learn electronics and computing concepts making these disciplines more available, accessible, and inclusive. The prevalence and advances in embedded technology are spurring increasing need for trained STEM employees to create Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, electronics and computing are difficult to learn and the interventions that exist often result in an underrepresentation of women and minorities. The educational technology in this project addresses these needs through learning materials designed to engage a diversity of students through experiential educational experiences that can integrate into a variety of contexts to educate students through design of computational objects. The project focuses on broadening participation and improving student learning outcomes through curriculum, technology, and a support system that provides tools that account for the needs of students with varying skill levels, while offering students non-traditional pathways into computing and engineering.This I-Corps project builds on work in physical computing education, focusing on the design and development of tools to facilitate learning about electronics and computing concepts as students build engaging projects. The literature in physical computing is dominated by informal educational interventions and has yet to understand how to improve the tools and learning activities to address the needs of teachers and students. This project will begin to investigate the needs of the various stakeholders within formal education to understand how to reach the broad range of students in public high schools. Furthermore, our modular educational technology brings clarity to the programmable electronics by focusing on visibility of the signals within the circuits, while promoting interactions that focus the learner to encounter important concepts. By shedding light on the interactions between the hardware and software, the tools facilitate students in understanding how the embedded Internet of Things (IoT) technology works.

该 I-Corps 项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是让新手更容易学习电子和计算概念，使这些学科更加可用、易于理解和包容。嵌入式技术的流行和进步刺激了对经过培训的 STEM 员工创建物联网 (IoT) 设备的需求不断增加。然而，电子和计算机很难学习，而且现有的干预措施往往导致女性和少数族裔的代表性不足。该项目中的教育技术通过学习材料来满足这些需求，这些学习材料旨在通过体验式教育体验吸引多元化的学生，这些体验可以融入各种环境中，通过计算对象的设计来教育学生。该项目的重点是通过课程、技术和支持系统扩大参与并提高学生的学习成果，该支持系统提供满足不同技能水平学生需求的工具，同时为学生提供进入计算和工程的非传统途径。这个 I-Corps 项目建立在物理计算教育工作的基础上，重点是设计和开发工具，以促进学生在构建引人入胜的项目时学习电子和计算概念。物理计算方面的文献主要以非正式教育干预为主，尚未了解如何改进工具和学习活动来满足教师和学生的需求。该项目将开始调查正规教育中各个利益相关者的需求，以了解如何接触公立高中的广大学生。此外，我们的模块化教育技术通过关注电路内信号的可见性，使可编程电子产品更加清晰，同时促进互动，让学习者集中接触重要概念。通过阐明硬件和软件之间的交互，这些工具可以帮助学生了解嵌入式物联网 (IoT) 技术的工作原理。