Culturally situated immersive virtual learning and engineering design to build STEM capacity in Dine communities

具有文化背景的沉浸式虚拟学习和工程设计，旨在培养餐饮社区的 STEM 能力

• 批准号: 2241802
• 负责人: Shawn Jordan
• 金额: $ 130万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2027-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241802&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturally; situated; immersive; virtual; learning

The goal of this project is to develop and test hybrid immersive learning environments to engage Diné (Navajo) middle school students in place-based virtual scientific investigations, hands-on physical experiments, and engineering design projects. The curriculum units will support technology-infused science learning on the past, present, and future of (1) energy in the Navajo Nation (specifically the transition from coal to other energy sources); and (2) water (both shortage and quality issues). The curriculum will build on the rich history of Diné traditional ecological knowledge and practices. The immersive virtual environment will support scientific investigation through situated, place-based investigation, with connections to cultural and historical context, and visualizations not accessible in real-world environments. The physical engineering design activity will involve engineering design projects to design solutions to meet community needs. This project is a partnership between Arizona State University Polytechnic School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Ke’yah Advanced Rural Manufacturing Alliance (KARMA), the Department of Diné Education, and a cohort of middle schools across the entire Navajo Nation. This approach has the potential to inspire the next generation of Diné engineers and scientists to use their knowledge to strengthen their communities. This project will directly impact 1800+ middle school students and 60+ teachers across 15+ schools across all five agencies of the Navajo Nation. This project is funded by the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program, which supports projects that build understandings of practices, program elements, contexts and processes contributing to increasing students' knowledge and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and information and communication technology (ICT) careers.The project will develop and test two hybrid culturally-situated immersive learning environments for schools in the Navajo Nation centered around the energy and water futures. A Community Participatory Design-Based Research approach will be used to collaborate with Diné community members (including elders, leaders, teachers, and engineers) to co-design and revise the curriculum. This study will advance knowledge of blending virtual 3-D immersive learning environments with hands-on project-based learning in culturally-situated contexts to support students in designing energy and water futures. It will also generate new knowledge of how Diné knowledge can be used in engineering design and intersect with STEM and continue evolving community participatory approaches to research. The study will use mixed-method approaches to study student and teacher experiences with and impacts of the curriculum, through research questions on (1) teachers’ and students’ experiences with the hybrid learning environment, (2) how students use their cultural capital, and how students perceive Diné cultural knowledge, skills, and attitudes intersecting with STEM, and (3) the pre-post impacts of the experiences on student learning and affective measures. The project will also provide professional development to teachers in the Navajo Nation to adapt and implement the curricula, using a train-the-trainer model to scale and sustain the program beyond the duration of the grant.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.

该项目的目的是开发和测试混合沉浸式学习环境，以吸引Diné（Navajo）中学生参与基于地点的虚拟科学研究，动手实践实验和工程设计项目。课程单元将支持（1）在纳瓦霍国家（1）能源（特别是从煤炭到其他能源的过渡）的过去，现在和未来中注入技术的科学学习； （2）水（短缺和质量问题）。该课程将建立在Diné传统生态知识和实践的悠久历史的基础上。身临其境的虚拟环境将通过与文化和历史环境的联系，通过位置基于地点的投资来支持科学投资，在现实世界环境中无法访问可视化。物理工程设计活动将涉及工程设计项目，以设计解决社区的解决方案，该项目是亚利桑那州立大学理工学院，哈佛大学教育学院，Ke'yah高级农村制造联盟（KARMA），Diné教育系，整个Navajo Nation的中学队列之间的合作伙伴关系。这种方法有可能激发下一代的Diné工程师和科学家利用他们的知识来加强社区。该项目将直接影响纳瓦霍（Navajo Nation）所有五个机构的15个以上学校中的1800多名中学生和60多名教师。该项目是由学生和教师（ITEST）计划的创新技术经验资助的，该计划支持对实践，计划要素，上下文，环境和过程的理解，从而有助于增加学生对科学，技术，工程和数学和数学（STEM）的知识和兴趣，以及对两种因素的发展和测试跨越的潮汐范围的研究。能源和水期货。一种基于社区设计的研究方法将用于与Diné社区成员（包括长者，领导者，教师和工程师）合作，以共同设计和修改课程。这项研究将提高有关将虚拟3-D沉浸式学习环境与基于项目的基于项目的学习的知识，以支持学生设计能源和水期货的学生。它还将产生有关如何在工程设计中使用Diné知识并与STEM相交的新知识，并继续发展社区参与研究方法。该研究将使用混合方法方法来研究课程的学生和教师经验和影响（1）对（1）教师和学生在混合学习环境中的经验，（2）学生如何使用其文化资本，以及学生如何看待DinéDiné文化知识，与STEM和（3）衡量学生的经验和研究的经验，并影响到学生的经验，并影响了学生的学习和衡量学生的经验。该项目还将为Navajo Nation的教师提供专业发展，以适应和实施该课程，并使用火车训练模型来扩展和维持该计划，以超出格兰特的期限。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。