RET in Engineering and Computer Science SITE: Research Experience for Teachers on Cyber-Enabled Technologies

网络技术对于解决安全、经济竞争力和创新等国家挑战越来越重要。因此，当前和未来几代教师必须做好准备，以满足多样化的网络化劳动力的需求。佛罗里达国际大学的更新RET网站将继续提供机会，培养教师未实现的研究潜力，同时满足在这个快速发展的领域增加多样性的需要。该网站已经接待了78名高中STEM教师，代表迈阿密-戴德区的42所学校，并计划为另外49名教师提供这一更新奖项。通过为期6周的沉浸式暑期项目，高中STEM教师将与教师导师配对进行前沿研究，加深他们的内容知识，建立相关课程和课堂活动，并支持学生在该领域的职业选择。该奖项支持佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）更新专注于网络技术的教师研究经验（RET）网站。该网站的主要目标是：（1）在K-12 STEM教师和研究界之间建立长期合作伙伴关系;（2）增加K-12教师对网络技术的了解;（3）通过研究和专业发展计划提高K-12教师的技术能力;（4）帮助教师根据这一经验制定课程。该网站将为参与者提供一个机会，在教师的指导下，在为期六周的暑期课程中从事高质量的前沿研究。该计划将为49名STEM教师提供服务，他们教授9-12年级，居住在FIU的通勤距离内。研究项目集中在新兴的网络技术，包括物联网，对抗机器学习，社交网络和安全。该计划的一个重要目标是让教师将他们的研究经验转移到课堂上。为了实现这一目标，教师每周开会，并与教师，工作人员，学生和彼此密切合作，共同考虑如何将夏季使用的概念和研究过程传达给学生，并根据他们在夏季的接触开发教育模块。其他职业发展计划活动包括每周研讨会，实地考察，研讨会和学年后续活动。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。

Cyber-enabled technologies are increasingly more critical for addressing national challenges like security, economic competitiveness, and innovation. It is therefore imperative that current and future generations of teachers are prepared to meet the needs of a diverse, cyber-saavy workforce. This renewal RET Site at Florida International University will continue providing opportunities that nurture teachers’ unrealized research potential while meeting the need to increase diversity in this rapidly growing field. The site has already hosted 78 high school STEM teachers, representing 42 schools across the Miami-Dade district, and aims to prepare an additional 49 teachers with this renewal award. Through the immersive 6-week summer program, high school STEM teachers will be paired with faculty mentors to conduct cutting-edge research that will deepen their content knowledge, build related curriculum and classroom activities, and support their students’ career choices in this area.This award supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) Site focused on cyber-enabled technologies at Florida International University (FIU). The primary goals of the RET site are to (1) build long-term collaborative partnerships between K-12 STEM teachers and the research community; (2) increase K-12 teachers’ knowledge of cyber-enabled technologies; (3) increase K-12 teachers’ technology competency through research and professional development programs; and (4) assist teachers in developing class curriculum based on this experience. This site will provide participants an opportunity to engage in high-quality cutting-edge research during a six-week summer program under the mentorship of faculty. The program will serve 49 STEM teachers who teach grades 9-12 and live within commuting distance of FIU. Research projects are centered on emerging cyber-enabled technologies, including internet of things, adversarial machine learning, social networks, and security. An important objective of the program is for the teachers to transfer their research experience to their classrooms. To accomplish this, teachers meet weekly and work closely with faculty, staff, students, and each other to collectively consider ways to communicate the concepts and research process used during the summer to their students, and to develop educational modules based on their exposure through the summer. Other career development program activities include weekly seminars, field trips, workshops, and academic year follow-ups.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.