RET Site: Project-Based Learning for Rural Alabama STEM Middle School Teachers in Machine Learning and Robotics

RET 网站：阿拉巴马州农村 STEM 中学教师机器学习和机器人技术的项目式学习

• 批准号: 2206977
• 负责人: Xiaowen Gong
• 金额: $ 58.99万
• 依托单位: Auburn University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206977&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RET; Site; Project; Based; Learning

This award establishes a new RET Site under at Auburn University in Alabama. The site will provide unique and holistic research experiences for 30 middle school math and science teachers in the 7th-8th grades from underserved rural areas of Alabama, particularly the Alabama Black Belt region. The research focus is on mobile robots enabled by cutting-edge technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence. The goals of the site are to equip teachers with knowledge and skills in robotics and ML/AI and promote their interests in these areas and facilitate teachers’ development and implementation of engaging project-based curricular modules for their classrooms. The site will provide research experiences to 10 middle school math and science teachers in the 7th-8th grades each year via a 6-week summer program and 9-month academic year follow-up, with the research focused on smart mobile robots. The site has five primary objectives to reach its goals of providing a rigorous and engaging RET experience: 1) provide education and training activities on the fundamentals of robotics and ML/AI, and a novel platform for research and education of ML-based mobile robots; 2) engage teachers in hands-on research projects on ML-based mobile robots that match well with faculty mentors’ active research projects; 3) allow teachers to collaborate with engineering and STEM education faculty to develop thep roject-based curricular modules; 4) foster teachers’ leadership and pedagogical skills via teacher leader academies and practice of teaching the RET curricular modules; 5) assist teachers to implement the RET curricular modules via academic follow-up.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.

该奖项在亚拉巴马的奥本大学建立了一个新的RET网站。该网站将为来自亚拉巴马服务不足的农村地区，特别是亚拉巴马黑带地区的30名7 - 8年级的中学数学和科学教师提供独特和全面的研究经验。研究重点是由机器学习和人工智能等尖端技术支持的移动的机器人。该网站的目标是为教师提供机器人和ML/AI方面的知识和技能，促进他们在这些领域的兴趣，并促进教师为课堂开发和实施基于项目的课程模块。该网站将通过为期6周的暑期项目和为期9个月的学年随访，每年为10名7 - 8年级的中学数学和科学教师提供研究经验，研究重点是智能移动的机器人。该网站有五个主要目标，以实现其提供严格和引人入胜的RET体验的目标：1）提供机器人和ML/AI基础知识的教育和培训活动，以及基于ML的移动的机器人研究和教育的新平台; 2）让教师参与基于ML的移动的机器人的实践研究项目，这些项目与教师导师的积极研究项目相匹配; 3）允许教师与工程和STEM教育教师合作开发基于项目的课程模块：4）通过教师领导学院和教授RET课程模块的实践来培养教师的领导能力和教学技能; 5）协助教师通过学术跟踪实施可再生能源技术课程模块-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得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的支持。

项目成果

Work in Progress: Building a “Project-Based Learning for Rural Alabama STEM Middle School Teachers in Machine Learning and Robotics” RET Site

正在进行的工作：为阿拉巴马州农村 STEM 中学教师建立一个机器学习和机器人技术项目式学习 RET 网站

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--42795
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: ASEE Conferences
• 作者: Gong, Xiaowen;Marghitu, Daniela;Roppel, Thaddeus;Wang, Chih-hsuan;Russell, Melody
• 通讯作者: Russell, Melody

Work in Progress: Building a “Project-Based Learning for Rural Alabama STEM Middle School Teachers in Machine Learning and Robotics” RET Site (abstract accepted)

正在进行的工作：为阿拉巴马州农村 STEM 中学教师建立一个机器学习和机器人技术基于项目的学习 RET 网站（已接受摘要）

• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: ASEE conference
• 作者: Xiaowen Gong, Daniela Marghitu