SBIR Phase I: Building Emotional Intelligence Through the Connected Readers Program

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将解决发展学生的挑战？以移动为基础的平台提供移情和情感自我意识。与NSF开发创新教育计划以提高情商的使命相一致，该项目将解决年轻学习者的三个主要痛点，具有深远的影响。首先，需要培养情商；情商已被确定为21世纪的素养，对年轻学习者的茁壮成长至关重要。当前的学校氛围问题，包括欺凌和暴力，不断强化了解决社会和情感学习的必要性。其次，需要将社交和情感学习融入常规课堂活动。随着对学校测试的要求越来越高，拥有一个与学校已经承担的责任相结合的计划应该会支持更广泛的采用。最后，该项目解决了对抗年轻学生目前使用社交媒体的有害影响的广泛需求。这个项目将为社交网络带来积极的影响，可以提高学生的情商技能。拟议中的创新是一种基于增强现实的体验，让四、五年级的学生沉浸在旨在培养他们的情商技能的活动中；即，当他们与同龄人网络互动时，他们的情感自我意识和同理心。该项目必须解决的关键技术挑战包括：提炼培养情感自我意识和同理心的核心方法，定义和提炼教师/家长认为在教育上有说服力且学习者喜欢参与的用户体验，为学习者生成的内容设计一个策划过程，确保所有用户的安全和保障，开发虚拟互动，使学生参与情感技能发展，并将活动与学生已经负责的材料联系起来。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will address the challenge of developing students? empathy and emotional self-awareness with a mobile-based platform. Aligning with the NSF's mission to develop innovative education programs to enhance aspects of emotional intelligence, this project will address three major pain points for young learners with far-reaching implications. First, the need to develop emotional intelligence; which has been identified as a 21st-century literacy that is crucial for younger learners to thrive. Current school climate issues with bullying and violence consistently reinforce the need to address social and emotional learning. Next, the need to integrate social and emotional learning into regular classroom activities. With the demands placed on schools for testing, having a program that integrates with what schools are already responsible should support more widespread adoption. Finally, the program addresses a widespread need to combat the deleterious effects of the current uses of social media by young students. This project will bring a positive spin to social networking that can improve the emotional intelligence skills of studentsThe proposed innovation is an augmented reality-based experience that immerses fourth and fifth-grade students in activities designed to build their skills of emotional intelligence; namely, emotional self-awareness and empathy, as they interact with a network of peers. The key technical challenges the project must solve include: refining core methods for developing emotional self-awareness and empathy, defining and refining a user experience that teachers/parents will find educationally compelling and with which learners will love to engage, designing a curating process for learner-generated content that will ensure the safety and security of all users and developing virtual interactions that engage students in emotional skill development, and connecting activities with the materials for which students are already responsible.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.