NNA Track 2: Exploring the potential of digital education frameworks to build understanding of socioecological impacts of Alaskan environmental change

新北极航行（NNA）是NSF的十大创意之一。NNA项目解决快速变化的北极地区的趋同科学挑战。北极研究需要为国家、更大地区和地球仪的经济、安全和复原力提供信息。NNA授权从地方到国际规模的新的研究伙伴关系，使下一代北极研究人员多样化，加强正规和非正规教育的努力，并在适当的情况下整合知识的共同生产。该奖项通过支持具有明确潜力的规划活动来实现这一目标的一部分，以开发新颖，前沿的研究思路和方法来实现NNA目标。它整合了自然环境和社会系统的各个方面，解决了重要的社会挑战，创造了重要的教育机会，并使当地和土著社区参与进来。随着北极变暖，社会和环境变化威胁着北极，其居民及其生活方式。 减轻这些变化的影响必须包括教育年轻人了解所涉及的复杂互动，因为他们这一代人将随着时间的推移而受到越来越大的影响。 许多科学概念，如气温上升和二氧化碳水平，都很难教授和理解，因为它们实际上是看不见的，而它们的影响，如鲑鱼被变暖的水的热应力杀死，都是显而易见的。该项目正在探索有效的方法来教授具有挑战性的社会和环境变化问题，以及潜在的缓解解决方案，通过互动式教育游戏，嵌入式评估，以证据为基础，具有文化响应性，植根于阿拉斯加土著知识和价值观。该项目的最终目标是利用这项探索性研究的结果，为阿拉斯加、北极及其他地区的学生开发和评估交互式STEM模拟框架的教育潜力。WGBH教育基金会与费尔班克斯阿拉斯加大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校国家评估、标准和学生测试研究中心（CRESST）以及咨询公司瑞文集团（Raven's Group）合作，将领导一个包容性和有意义的研究过程，以设计一个引人入胜、有效的教育STEM模拟框架。该团队将与教育工作者，游戏设计师，研究人员，阿拉斯加土著和非土著家庭以及社区中心一起参加头脑风暴会议，访谈，焦点小组，力学测试和文化响应评估开发。通过这项形成性工作，该团队将开发框架的内容，学习目标和标准一致的课程沿着嵌入式评估，旨在为学生的进步提供支持，并展示学生达到框架学习目标的程度。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) is one of NSF's 10 Big Ideas. NNA projects address convergence scientific challenges in the rapidly changing Arctic. The Arctic research is needed to inform the economy, security and resilience of the Nation, the larger region and the globe. NNA empowers new research partnerships from local to international scales, diversifies the next generation of Arctic researchers, enhances efforts in formal and informal education, and integrates the co-production of knowledge where appropriate. This award fulfills part of that aim by supporting planning activities with clear potential to develop novel, leading edge research ideas and approaches to address NNA goals. It integrates aspects of the natural environment and social systems, addresses important societal challenges, builds significant educational opportunities, and engages local and Indigenous communities.As the Arctic warms, social and environmental changes threaten the Arctic, its inhabitants, and their ways of life. Mitigating the effects of these changes must include educating young people about the complex interactions involved since their generation will experience the growing impacts over time. Many science concepts, such as rising temperatures and carbon dioxide levels, are challenging to teach and understand because they are literally invisible, while their effects, such as salmon killed by the heat stress of warming water, are all too visible. This project is exploring effective ways to teach challenging issues of social and environmental change, and potential mitigation solutions, through interactive educational game play with embedded assessments that are evidence-based and culturally responsive, rooted in Alaska Indigenous knowledge and values. The ultimate goal of the project is to use the findings from this exploratory research to develop and assess the educational potential of an interactive STEM simulation framework for students in Alaska, the Arctic, and beyond. WGBH Educational Foundation, in partnership with the University of Fairbanks Alaska; National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA; and Raven’s Group, a consultancy; will lead an inclusive and meaningful research process towards designing an engaging and effective educational STEM simulation framework. The team will join together educators, game designers, researchers, Alaskan Indigenous and non-Indigenous families, and community centers in brainstorming sessions, interviews, focus groups, mechanics testing, and culturally responsive assessment development. Through this formative work, the team will develop the framework’s content, learning goals, and standards-aligned curriculum along with embedded assessments designed to scaffold students’ progress and demonstrate how well the students have reached the learning goals of the framework.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.