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VenomSquad: Building skills and interest in STEM with collaborative augmented reality

VenomSquad：通过协作增强现实培养 STEM 技能和兴趣

基本信息

批准号：
10481365
负责人：
Jessica Ochoa Hendrix
金额：
$ 26.23万
依托单位：
KILLER SNAILS LLC
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-07-01 至 2022-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10481365
关键词：
Address Affect American Animals Area Assessment tool Augmented Reality Award Behavior Black, Indigenous, People of Color Car Phone Collaborations Communication Cone Country Data Development Disabled Persons Educational Curriculum Educational Technology Emerging Technologies Engineering Ensure Evaluation Feedback Fostering Future Goals Health Immersion Individual Instruction Journals Knowledge Knowledge acquisition Learning Legal patent Life Maps Medicine Middle School Faculty Middle School Student Monitor Multimedia Mus Museums Nervous system structure Next Generation Science Standards Online Systems Outcome Pain Pain management Peptides Pharmaceutical Preparations Phase Play Polishes Problem Solving Process Research Personnel Resource Sharing Role STEM career STEM field STEM student Sales Scanning Schools Science Scientist Scorpions Site Small Business Innovation Research Grant Snails Snake Venoms Snakes Spottings Students Technology Testing Therapeutic Time Underrepresented Populations Venoms Woman Work base career commercial application dashboard design digital digital media digital models eighth grade experience formative assessment handheld mobile device informal learning innovation interactive tool interest junior high school materials science multimodality physical science prototype scaffold simulation skills usability web site

项目摘要

American students perform at a lower level and express less interest in STEM than students in other countries (Fayer et al., 2017). Additionally, Women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), and people with disabilities are underrepresented as both students and professionals in STEM fields (Rotermund & Burke, 2021; Hamrick, 2021). To address the dire need to prepare students with key skills like communication and collaboration, and increase interest in health and medicine careers especially among BIPOC, Killer Snails, a science-focused educational technology company, will create VenomSquad, an augmented reality (AR) learning experience for 6-8th grade. We will foster an interest in STEM and future careers by creating an AR experience using mobile phones where students take on roles as scientists working collaboratively in teams to understand how venom can be used to make therapeutic drugs. VenomSquad will be a 5-day curriculum supplement that combines AR game play, an interactive web-based digital science journal that reflects student interactions, and an innovative assessment dashboard for educators which highlights student collaboration across platforms. In VenomSquad students will take on roles of scientists collaboratively solving a real-world problem: finding new, non-addictive pain therapies based on the venom of extreme creatures like snakes and cone snails. While the content we propose for VenomSquad is unique, the underlying technology and principles of multimedia design for learning are generalizable to other content areas. VenomSquad has three innovative features: (1)Technical advancements in collaborative mobile AR. The creation of VenomSquad will require new technical advancements (addressing bandwidth, latency, loss of connection) to ensure a high level of collaboration for the student teams using AR. (2)Multiplayer design engine. The proprietary design engine powering the digital science journal enables collaborative behaviors like communication and sharing resources between students with different information based on their roles, while maintaining common ground within the group. (3)Educator dashboard optimized for timely, contextual feedback. We will create an educator dashboard to display actionable learning analytics drawn from qualitative and quantitative information about individual student work and collaborative interactions between students in the digital science journal and the AR scenes. This display will highlight evidence of successful collaboration or the need for support from the educator. This feature of the dashboard will help educators assess each student and group’s AR and digital experience, addressing pain points for educators using collaborative activities in classroom settings. Taken together, these features ensure VenomSquad will be unlike existing Life/Physical Science materials on the market and will create a niche in which Killer Snails can grow. Our iterative approach to the design and testing of VenomSquad will examine how these features contribute to students’ learning experiences. Our evaluation partner WestEd will conduct an RCT examining the extent to which VenomSquad can affect students’ use of science and engineering practices, especially ability to effectively collaborate, and interest in STEM careers, and educators’ ability to monitor and support students during collaborative activities.

与其他国家的学生相比，美国学生的表现较低，对STEM的兴趣也较少