CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies: Beyond Black Boxes: Bring Transparency and Aesthetics Back to Scientific Instruments

9616444麻省理工学院迈克尔·雷斯尼克合作研究学习技术：超越黑箱：将透明度和美学带回科学仪器麻省理工学院、韦尔斯利学院和科罗拉多大学的一个合作项目在3年内获得880,658美元，该项目旨在开发计算工具和项目材料，使儿童能够创建他们自己的科学仪器，让他们参与设计和建造，以及观察、测量和口译。据推测，更多的学生会像过去的科学家一样，有动力参与科学活动，此外，设计过程将帮助他们培养关键的评估能力。该项目承诺让学生更深入地了解科学与技术之间的关系，以及科学与现实世界之间的关系。该项目将开发一系列微小的、完全可编程的计算设备(蟋蟀)，学生可以将其嵌入日常物品中。蟋蟀可以控制马达和灯光，从传感器接收信息，并通过红外线相互通信。这些技术将在一系列环境中进行评估，包括在教室和职业技术学校与教师合作。除了检验他们的假设外，PI还将评估物理和虚拟物体之间以及“透明”和“不透明”物体之间的平衡的理论学习问题。

9616444 Resnick, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research Learning Technologies: Beyond Black Boxes: Bringing Transparency and Aesthetics back to Scientific Instruments Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded $880,658 over 3 years for a collaborative project between MIT, Wellesley College and the University of Colorado, to develop computational tools and project materials to allow children to create their own scientific instruments, engaging them in designing and building, as well as in observing, measuring and interpreting. It is hypothesized that more students, like scientists of old, will be motivated to participate in scientific activities, and in addition the design process will help them develop critical capacities for evaluation. The project promises to provide students with deeper understanding of the relationships between science and technology, and between science and the real world. The project will develop a family of tiny, fully programmable computational devices (crickets) that students can embed in everyday objects. Crickets can control motors and lights, receive information from sensors and communicate with one another via infrared light. The technologies will be evaluated in a range of settings, including work with teachers in classrooms and a vocational-technical school. In addition to testing their hypothesis, the PI's will evaluate theoretical learning issues of balance between physical and virtual objects, and between "transparent" and "opaque" objects.