CAREER: Bridging Formal and Everyday Learning through Wearable Technologies: Towards a Connected Learning Paradigm

职业：通过可穿戴技术连接正式学习和日常学习：迈向互联学习范式

• 批准号: 1942937
• 负责人: Sharon Lynn Chu
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1942937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Bridging; Formal; Everyday; Learning

A significant problem in science learning is that students do not always see the relevance of the concepts they are learning. This lack of perceived relevance may then lead to less student engagement in science. This project will investigate how to connect 4th to 6th grade students’ out-of-classroom, everyday experiences with formal in-classroom science instruction through the use of wearable and visualization technologies. Students will use wearable technologies to capture their everyday experiences related to science and reflect on these experiences through a web-based interface. A dashboard application will support teachers in tailoring their classroom science lesson plans accordingly. The project will contribute to our understanding of how to design wearable technologies for connecting learning across contexts and will inform a framework of teaching science that is better grounded in students’ everyday experiences with science concepts. Students from two highly diverse K-12 schools will participate in the project. Outcomes of the project will lead to the design of new structures for connected science learning that are responsive to diverse student experiences and backgrounds.In investigating connected learning across both everyday experience and formal school contexts, the project consists of a 4-phase work plan over five years. Phase 1 will explore how to support 4th to 6th grade students with wearable technologies to reflect on their everyday experiences through the lens of science concepts. Phase 2 will conduct iterative participatory design sessions with pre- and in-service teachers to investigate how to support them in incorporating students’ everyday science reflections into school instruction through interactive dashboards. Phase 3 will develop an exemplar system that integrates the designed wearable with the teacher dashboard. Two evaluation studies will be conducted with two partner schools: the first study will address a single science concept, and the second study will be longer-term, allowing teachers to have free-use of the system for any number of science concepts over a semester. Phase 4 will identify guidelines for connected learning technologies and determine the extent to which these guidelines may generalize to other education levels (e.g., STEM college sophomores). Both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected across the phases to assess the impact of the connected learning system on students’ perceived relevance of science, motivation to engage in science, scientific thinking or mindset, and teachers’ classroom instruction. Workshops will also be conducted to introduce teachers to the paradigm of connected learning, and the associated technologies. Overall, by connecting students’ science-related everyday experiences with formal instruction, the project will lead to more personally relevant student learning, and ultimately to an educational approach that is more receptive to a diverse student population.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.

科学学习中的一个重要问题是，学生并不总是看到他们正在学习的概念的相关性。这种缺乏感知的相关性可能会导致学生参与科学。该项目将调查如何通过使用可穿戴和可视化技术来连接4至6年级学生的教室室外房间。学生将使用可穿戴技术来捕捉与科学相关的日常体验，并通过基于网络的界面反思这些体验。仪表板应用程序将支持教师相应地量身定制其课堂科学课程。该项目将有助于我们理解如何设计可穿戴技术以跨环境联系，并为教学科学的框架提供信息，该框架在学生每天都有科学概念的经验中更好地基于学生。来自两所高度不同K-12学校的学生将参加该项目。该项目的成果将导致针对连接科学学习的新结构的设计，这些结构对潜水员的经验和背景有反应。在调查每天的经验和正规学校环境中的连接学习中，该项目包括五年来的4阶段工作计划。第1阶段将探索如何通过可穿戴技术为4至6年级的学生提供支持，以通过科学概念的镜头来反思他们的每天体验。第2阶段将与前和在职教师进行迭代参与设计会议，以调查如何通过互动仪表板将学生每天的科学反思纳入学校的指导中。第三阶段将开发一个示例系统，该系统将设计可穿戴的仪表板与老师仪表板集成在一起。将对两家合作伙伴学校进行两项评估研究：第一项研究将解决一个科学概念，第二项研究将是长期的，使教师可以在一个学期内免费使用任何数量的科学概念。第4阶段将确定有关连接学习技术的准则，并确定这些准则可以推广到其他教育水平（例如STEM College大二学生）的程度。定性数据和定量数据都将在整个阶段收集，以评估连接学习系统对学生感知的科学相关性，参与科学，科学思维或心态以及教师课堂指导的影响。还将举办研讨会，向教师介绍连接学习的范式以及相关的技术。总体而言，通过将学生与科学相关的每天与正式教学联系起来，该项目将导致更相关的学生学习，并最终将教育方法更加容易接受，该方法更容易接受Divers Student Gusets。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的智力和更广泛的影响来审查Criteria，通过评估来诚实地通过评估来诚实地支持。

项目成果

Supporting lifelong learning: Comparing an in-situ and a post hoc approach to support everyday question-asking

支持终身学习：比较支持日常提问的现场方法和事后方法

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Educational Technology & Society,
• 作者: Rani, N.;Chu, S. L.;Williamson, Y. G.
• 通讯作者: Williamson, Y. G.

Wearables can help me learn: A survey of user perception of wearable technologies for learning in everyday life

• DOI: 10.1007/s10639-021-10726-6
• 发表时间: 2021-09
• 期刊: Education and Information Technologies
• 影响因子: 5.5
• 作者: Neha Rani;S. Chu

Research on Wearable Technologies for Learning: A Systematic Review

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2023.1270389
• 发表时间: 2022-01
• 期刊: ArXiv
• 作者: Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee;Brittany M. Garcia;Neha Rani