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.

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使新手更容易学习电子设备和计算概念，从而使这些学科更加可用，易于访问和包容。嵌入式技术的流行和进步激发了训练有素的STEM员工创建物联网（IoT）设备的需求。但是，电子和计算很难学习，而存在的干预措施通常导致妇女和少数民族的代表性不足。该项目中的教育技术通过学习材料来解决这些需求，旨在通过体验性的教育经验吸引各种学生，这些经验可以整合到各种环境中，以通过设计计算对象来教育学生。该项目致力于通过课程，技术和支持系统来扩大参与度并改善学生的学习成果，该工具可以说明具有不同技能水平的学生的需求，同时为学生提供计算和工程的非传统途径。这项I-Corps项目旨在在体育教育上建立工作，从而构建了构建工具和计算电子技术的设计和开发项目，以进行电子学和计算。物理计算中的文献以非正式的教育干预为主，并且尚未了解如何改善工具和学习活动以满足教师和学生的需求。该项目将开始调查正规教育中各种利益相关者的需求，以了解如何到达公立高中的广泛学生。此外，我们的模块化教育技术通过关注电路中信号的可见性，同时促进学习者将学习者聚焦于遇到重要概念，从而使可编程的电子设备清晰明了。通过阐明硬件和软件之间的交互，工具可以促进学生了解嵌入式物联网（IoT）技术的工作方式。