Mind, Brain and Education in STEM Learning: Research, Policy and Practice Collaboratory

这项授予纽约大学的奖项将为定于2020年1月在纽约市举行的关于心灵，大脑和教育的研讨会提供支持。它将带来来自多个领域的研究人员（例如，教育研究，认知科学，神经科学）与教育从业人员（例如，教师，地区领导，家长）在正式和非正式的背景下分享关于大脑研究和STEM学习的想法。这将是研究人员与教育工作者分享他们在数字处理和STEM问题解决等主题上的前沿工作成果的机会，反过来，教育工作者也可以直接向研究人员提供有关翻译实践问题的意见。它还将为教育工作者提供机会，帮助推动基础和应用研究议程。研讨会的目标是为研究人员、教育工作者、家长和政策影响者之间的持续合作开发新模式。该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，该计划支持基础研究，促进STEM学习的研究文献。研讨会将探索研究人员和教育工作者在新兴领域心灵，大脑和教育之间互动的创新模式，重点是合作-由一系列顶级专家领导的特定主题的桌面讨论，以促进对话-以及网络会议，快速对话、主旨演讲和一次专门探讨聚集社区持续互动新模式的会议。具体的主题可能包括与STEM中诱导持久记忆相关的认知神经科学发现，关于数学正规学习基础的几何直觉的认知发现，在STEM教育中建立研究者-实践者伙伴关系，中学水平的科学教学，支持博物馆-大学合作，该奖项反映了NSF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 award to New York University will provide support for a workshop on Mind, Brain, and Education scheduled to be held in New York City in January 2020. It will bring researchers from multiple fields (e.g., education research, cognitive science, neuroscience) together with education practitioners (e.g., teachers, district leaders, parents) to share ideas about brain research and STEM learning in both formal and informal contexts. It will be an opportunity for researchers to share the results of their cutting-edge work on such topics as numerical processing and STEM problem solving with educators and, in turn, for educators to have direct input to researchers about issues concerning the translation to practice. It will also provide educators with the opportunity to help drive basic and applied research agendas. The goal of the workshop is to develop new models for sustained collaborations among researchers, educators, parents, and policy influencers. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program, which supports fundamental research that advances the research literature on STEM learning.The workshop will explore innovative models of interaction between researchers and educators in the nascent field of Mind, Brain, and Education, centering on collaboratories - table discussions on specific topics led by a range of top experts so as to foster dialogue - as well as networking sessions, rapid-fire talks, keynote addresses, and a session devoted to discovering new models for sustained interaction of the gathered communities. The specific topics will may include cognitive neuroscientific findings related to inducing durable memories in STEM, cognitive findings about the geometric intuitions that underlie formal learning in mathematics, establishing researcher-practitioner partnerships in STEM education, teaching science at the secondary school level, supporting museum-university collaborations, and best practices in public outreach.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.