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

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛的商业影响是让学生接触到他们自己的文化以外的文化，以培养同理心，不仅是为了他人，也是为了更好地了解自己和自己的文化。21世纪的劳动力需要会说多种语言、好奇心强、合作能力强、有同理心的学习者。然而，很难获得身临其境地进行跨文化移情的机会，而移情需要练习。来自海外旅游项目的地理和文化知识被证明可以增加同理心，但这种体验服务于相对较少的学生。学校需要一种经济高效且安全的方式，公平地提供身临其境的跨文化参与，以满足日益增长的全球需求。该项目旨在将国际电影节呈现为一个丰富的学习氛围，可在规模上复制，为学习者提供远远超出传统观众多样性和数量的服务。将提供身临其境的体验，以响应教室、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的策划，在全球范围内进行流媒体播放，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中与社会影响商业创新相对应的方面，特别是同理心。通过讨论、分析、游戏化和评估，在每个会话中激活和再现了多条确定的移情路径。这一系列评估使学习者更好地了解他们是如何学习的，同时加强对他们自身以外的文化的学习的记忆，作为他们发展中的世界观的组成部分。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性人工智能(AI)，以提供匹配配置文件、调度、自动化、评估制表和报告以及归档等服务。这项技术将使用带有AR(增强现实)的生成性人工智能来为电影后讨论中的翻译服务，以及基于位置的信息，以实现更多的共鸣讨论点。在评估方面，人工智能将被用来向参与者提供反馈，影响学习情景记忆。评估还将有助于促进定性评估，以便参与者及时收到报告，阐明相似和不同之处。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.