Prospero: Creative distance learning for those in social isolation

普洛斯彼罗：为那些处于社会孤立状态的人提供创造性的远程学习

• 批准号: 61222
• 金额: $ 5.98万
• 依托单位: COLLAR & TIE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Feasibility Studies
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=61222
• 关键词: Prospero; Creative; distance; learning; those

COVID-19 has closed schools across the UK and internationally, meaning millions of children are now being educated at home, to varying degrees of success. Some subjects are more easily taught through digital platforms. Most online learning tools are instructional, using the web as a means of educational transmission. Often, practical subjects are disadavantgaed by these tools. Subjects like the arts, PE and CDT require students to be practical. Even subjects like Geography, History, RE and English require project based learning, often in groups. Most websites cannot help with this.Prospero is a powerful Online Distance Learning created by theatre company C&T and it directly addresses exactly these practical needs. Prospero brings together creativity, practical work and digital technologies to enhance learning. It enables the building of interactive lessons, called Smartscripts. These can be populated with practical tasks, dilemmas, conflicts and challenges designed to provoke students into taking part in these digitally enabled lessons.This project extends what Prospero can already do, by extending the system's toolkit for teachers and making it available to students. This will give the learner the chance to build their own interactive portfolios of practical work and collaborate with their classmates, even if they are separated by distance.Our objectives are:\* Make changes so students can easily access the appropriate functions and tools in Prospero.\* Add tools so teachers can supervise, moderate and evaluate their students' work\* Build a new evaluation module, so Prospero can collect, report and evaluate data.\* Add message board functions to students can collaborate on practical work easily.\* Create a training module, so teachers and students can get to work easily in Prospero.\* Finally, test the whole system with teachers from all subjects so we know it works and is relevant.This will make Prospero more user friendly, intuitive to use and responsive to the creativity of students.As young people become more immersed in video games and notions of 'gamifaction' this project will turn this enthusiasm to education's advantage. Prospero will be able to make engaging, child friendly lessons and workshops wherever students are learning. Prospero will become to practical learning what Minecraft is to Lego. Even the most challenging subjects and issues will become accessible in new and relevant ways. Finally we will evaluate what we have learned and bring our new technology to schools in the UK and across the world.The extension activities will allow us to achieve three further things:1. Undertake extensive and large-scale beta testing with cohorts of students across a cross section of schools. This will enable us to assess the robustness of the platform when large numbers of users are active on the site simultaneously and to track functionality with regard to user data analysis, evaluation and real-time collaboration. 2. Based on this testing, make revisions to our business and exploitation plan to accurately reflect data usage and how this impacts costs and pricing.3. Undertake similar testing in partner schools in New York City, through a partnership with NYC Department of Education. This will enable us to. modify our offer to reflect the needs of the American market, where Prospero already has a small market presence.

COVID-19已经关闭了英国和国际上的学校，这意味着数百万儿童现在正在家中接受教育，并取得了不同程度的成功。有些科目通过数字平台更容易教授。大多数在线学习工具都是指导性的，使用网络作为教育传播的手段。通常，这些工具会使实际的主题变得不重要。像艺术、体育和CDT这样的学科要求学生具有实践性。即使像地理，历史，RE和英语这样的科目也需要基于项目的学习，通常是小组学习。Prospero是由戏剧公司C&T创建的强大的在线远程学习，它直接解决了这些实际需求。Prospero汇集了创造力，实际工作和数字技术，以提高学习。它可以构建交互式课程，称为Smartscripts。这些可以填充实际任务，困境，冲突和挑战，旨在激发学生参加这些数字化的课程。该项目扩展了Prospero已经可以做的事情，通过扩展系统的教师工具包，并使其可供学生使用。这将使学习者有机会建立自己的实际工作的交互式投资组合，并与同学合作，即使他们相隔很远。我们的目标是：\* 进行更改，以便学生可以轻松地访问Prospero中的相应功能和工具。\*添加工具，以便教师可以监督、调节和评估学生的作业\* 构建新的评估模块，以便Prospero可以收集、报告和评估数据。\*增加留言板功能，学生可以轻松地进行实际工作协作。\*创建培训模块，以便教师和学生可以轻松地在Prospero中工作。\*最后，与所有科目的老师一起测试整个系统，这样我们就知道它是有效的，并且是相关的。这将使Prospero更加用户友好，直观的使用和响应学生的创造力。随着年轻人越来越沉浸在视频游戏和“游戏化”的概念中，这个项目将把这种热情转化为教育的优势。普洛斯彼罗将能够使从事，儿童友好的经验教训和研讨会，无论学生在哪里学习。普洛斯彼罗将成为实际学习什么Minecraft是乐高。即使是最具挑战性的主题和问题也将以新的和相关的方式获得。最后，我们将评估我们所学到的东西，并将我们的新技术带到英国和世界各地的学校。对跨学校的学生群体进行广泛和大规模的beta测试。这将使我们能够在大量用户同时活跃在网站上时评估平台的稳健性，并跟踪用户数据分析、评估和实时协作方面的功能。2.基于此测试，对我们的业务和开发计划进行修订，以准确反映数据使用情况以及这对成本和定价的影响。3.通过与纽约市教育部合作，在纽约市的伙伴学校进行类似的测试。这将使我们能够。修改我们的报价，以反映美国市场的需求，普洛斯彼罗在那里已经有了一个小的市场。