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

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的项目将解决培养学生的挑战？移情和情感自我意识与移动平台。与NSF开发创新教育项目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，并具有深远的影响。首先，需要发展情商；这被认为是21世纪的识字能力，对年轻学习者的成长至关重要。当前校园欺凌和暴力问题不断加剧了解决社会和情感学习问题的必要性。其次，需要将社交和情感学习融入常规课堂活动。随着对学校考试的要求，有一个与学校已经负责的项目相结合的项目应该会支持更广泛的采用。最后，该计划解决了一个广泛的需要，即与当前年轻学生使用社交媒体的有害影响作斗争。这个项目将给社交网络带来积极的影响，可以提高学生的情商技能。提议的创新是一种基于增强现实的体验，让四年级和五年级的学生沉浸在旨在培养他们情商技能的活动中；也就是说，情感自我意识和同理心，当他们与同伴网络互动时。项目必须解决的关键技术挑战包括：完善发展情感自我意识和同理心的核心方法，定义和完善教师/家长会发现具有教育吸引力的用户体验，学习者会喜欢参与其中，为学习者生成的内容设计一个策划过程，以确保所有用户的安全，并开发虚拟互动，使学生参与情感技能的发展。并将活动与学生已经负责的材料联系起来。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.