SBIR Phase I: A Group Video Game Challenge for Integrated Applied Science Learning

SBIR 第一阶段：综合应用科学学习的团体视频游戏挑战

• 批准号: 1746786
• 负责人: Lindsey Tropf
• 金额: $ 22.47万
• 依托单位: Immersed Games, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1746786&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Group; Video; Game

This SBIR Phase I project will address the need to retain more diverse students' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) interest and increase their scientific literacy and 21st century skills. These goals are critical for the United States to remain competitive in the global workforce and reinforce goals of individual prosperity that are enhanced by developing STEM skills. There is therefore a strong market need among educators and parents alike for STEM video games that support development of these skills. This project will create an expert-level group challenge in an online video game for multidisciplinary integrated science learning that will increase students' scientific problem solving and collaboration skills. This innovation will empower teachers to do hands-on, integrated STEM cooperative group learning with highly engaging authentic experiences based on well-researched pedagogical best practices such as cooperative learning and inquiry-based science practices. Key innovations include novel instructional design for live simulated group challenges and generating a scalable architecture that will serve as a framework for creating authoring tools and additional challenges in the future. This work upholds the National Science Foundation's missions to strengthen the United States' workforce competitiveness.This project will establish the technical and commercial feasibility of the collaborative live simulation challenges for groups of students. Key technical risks include creating effective group simulations with randomly seeded variables that run live within a 3D Gameworld, given the limitations of consumer and institutional technology, and developing a scalable architecture which will allow applications of this innovation in additional contexts. The innovation in these areas will lead to future applications of this technology to create content authoring tools which enable scalable group challenge content development to expand to additional STEM content areas across elementary to high school age groups, and can be extended to support teachers making custom challenges based on local interests on demand without technical skills. By the end of Phase I, the project will lead to (1) producing a playable challenge based on integrated disciplinary core ideas in middle school level life science, aligned with Next Generation Science Standards; (2) answering key technical questions around bandwidth and simulation technical limitations for the proposed solution with accessible technology in our target applications; (3) addressing key technical risks around the deployability of the project; (4) collecting initial data on the educational application benefits.

该SBIR第一阶段项目将满足保持更多样化学生的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）兴趣并提高他们的科学素养和21世纪世纪技能的需求。这些目标对于美国在全球劳动力中保持竞争力和加强个人繁荣的目标至关重要，这些目标可以通过发展STEM技能来提高。因此，教育工作者和家长对支持这些技能发展的STEM视频游戏有着强烈的市场需求。该项目将在多学科综合科学学习的在线视频游戏中创建一个专家级小组挑战，这将提高学生解决科学问题和协作技能。这一创新将使教师能够进行动手，综合STEM合作小组学习，具有高度参与性的真实经验，基于经过充分研究的教学最佳实践，如合作学习和基于探究的科学实践。主要创新包括为现场模拟小组挑战进行新颖的教学设计，并生成一个可扩展的架构，该架构将作为创建创作工具和未来其他挑战的框架。这项工作支持美国国家科学基金会的使命，以加强美国的劳动力竞争力。该项目将建立技术和商业可行性的协作现场模拟挑战的学生群体。主要的技术风险包括：考虑到消费者和机构技术的限制，使用随机种子变量创建有效的群体模拟，这些变量在3D游戏世界中实时运行，并开发一个可扩展的架构，允许在其他环境中应用这种创新。这些领域的创新将导致该技术在未来的应用，以创建内容创作工具，使可扩展的组挑战内容开发扩展到小学到高中年龄组的其他STEM内容领域，并可以扩展到支持教师根据本地兴趣按需定制挑战，而无需技术技能。到第一阶段结束时，该项目将导致（1）基于中学生命科学的综合学科核心思想，与下一代科学标准保持一致，产生可玩的挑战;（2）回答关于带宽和模拟技术限制的关键技术问题，以解决我们目标应用中的可访问技术;（3）解决围绕项目可部署性的关键技术风险;（4）收集关于教育应用效益的初始数据。