SBIR Phase I: A platform for cross-cultural collaborative learning by 6th-12th graders based on synchronous watching of international films from different locations

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响是让学生接触到他们自己以外的文化，以培养同情心，不仅是为了他人，而且更好地了解自己和自己的文化。世纪的劳动力需要多语言，好奇，协作，同情的学习者。然而，很难获得跨文化的沉浸式机会来练习同理心，同理心需要练习。事实证明，出国旅游项目中的地理和文化知识可以增加同理心，但这种经历对学生的帮助相对较少。学校需要一种具有成本效益和安全的方式，公平地提供身临其境的跨文化参与，以满足日益全球化的需求。本项目旨在将国际电影节呈现为一个丰富的学习氛围，可大规模复制，为学习者提供远远超出传统观众多样性和数量的服务。沉浸式体验将用于满足教室、课后计划、医院和难民中心的学习需求。 这些电影将经过专业策划，在全球范围内播放，跨时区共同观看，并通过适度的课程进行增强。这个项目复制和放大了电影节模式的各个方面，这些方面与社会影响商业创新相对应，特别是同理心。通过讨论、分析、游戏化和评估，激活并再现了每一次会议中的多条确定的同理心路径。这一系列的评估使学习者更好地理解他们是如何学习的，同时加强对他们自己之外的文化的学习记忆，作为他们发展世界观的一部分。 该项目还为媒体和文化扫盲奠定了基础。该平台将激活非生成式人工智能（AI），以匹配配置文件，调度，自动化，评估制表和报告以及存档。该技术将使用带有AR（增强现实）的生成AI来为电影后的讨论提供翻译服务，以及基于位置的信息，以实现讨论的额外共情点。 在评估方面，人工智能将用于向参与者提供反馈，影响学习片段记忆。 评估还将有助于定性评估，以便参与者及时收到报告，阐明相似性和差异性。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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in exposing students to cultures other than their own to foster empathy, not only for others, but to better understand themselves and their own culture. The 21st century workforce requires multilingual, curious, collaborative, empathetic learners. Yet, immersive opportunities to exercise empathy cross-culturally are difficult to access and empathy requires practice. Geographic and cultural knowledge from travel abroad programs is proven to increase empathy, but such experiences serve relatively few students. Schools need a cost-effective and safe way of equitably delivering immersive cross-cultural engagement to meet increasingly global demands. This project intends to present the international film festival as a rich learning atmosphere, replicable at scale to serve learners well beyond the traditional audience diversity and number. The immersive experience will be delivered to respond to learning needs in the classrooms, after-school programs, hospitals, and refugee centers. The films will be expertly curated, globally streamed, co-viewed across time zones, and enhanced with moderated curriculum. This project replicates and magnifies aspects of the film festival model which correspond to social impact business innovation, specifically, empathy. Multiple identified paths to empathy in each session are activated and reproduced through discussion, analysis, gamification and assessment. This series of assessments engages the learner to better understand how they learn, while reinforcing the memory of learning of a culture outside of their own as integral to their developing worldview. The project also establishes a foundation for both media and cultural literacy. The platform will activate non-generative artificial intelligence (AI) in service of matching profiles, scheduling, automation, assessment tabulation and reporting, and archiving. The technology will employ generative AI with AR (augmented reality) in service of translation in post-film discussion as well as location-based information to enable additional points of empathy for discussion. With respect to assessments, AI will be used to provide feedback to participants, impacting learning episode memory. The assessments will also serve in the facilitation of qualitative assessments so that participants receive timely reports, illuminating similarities and differences.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.