The School-Home Science Connection: SHSC, Using TV-based Internet Technology to link School Science Projects to Home Activities

9729764 Soloway这个SGER项目将设计、实施和评估学习环境，在这种学习环境中，父母/监护人和儿童使用基于电视的互联网(即网络电视商业服务)从事与科学课堂课程相关的家庭科学活动。例如，在更好地了解哮喘的生物学基础(在社会经济地位低的城市社区，这是一个主要的健康问题)的背景下，父母/监护人及其子女可以每天两次收集有关儿童肺活量的数据。然后，他们可以使用电视/互联网链接与同学分享这些数据，接收对这些信息的纵向分析，将结果与当前的环境条件(如污染)联系起来，并更好地理解学校课程中关于生物的理论。这项研究有三个目标：1)了解如何创建活动，鼓励父母/监护人及其子女在家中从事严肃的科学活动；2)了解如何更好地将特定的校本科学课程单元与家庭科学活动联系起来；3)了解如何利用基于电视的互联网技术来支持父母/监护人和儿童在家庭环境中的科学探究活动。作为一项试点活动，调查人员已经与四个患有哮喘的儿童家庭合作，提供网络电视服务和学习材料的原型版本。这项拟议的研究将把这一初步努力扩展为一个为期一年的项目，将城市中学七年级教室与该班级所有儿童的家庭联系起来。该项目将开发和研究将开发和研究的四项学习活动，为进行类似研究的研究人员得出设计启示。该项目将有助于理解消费和娱乐技术如何提高孩子们在科学课上的动机和表现。这种类型的研究对于从事非正规科学教育和学校与家庭联系的研究人员以及那些关心提高家长科学知识的研究人员具有重要价值。***

9729764 Soloway This SGER project will design, implement, and assess learning environments in which parents/guardians and children use TV-based Internet (i.e., the Web-TV commercial service) to engage in home science activities linked to science classroom curricula. For example, in the context of better understanding the biological basis of asthma (a major health problem in low socioeconomic status, urban communities), parents/guardians and their children can collect data twice daily on the child's lung capacity. They can then use the TV/Internet link to share this data with classmates, to receive analyses of this information on a longitudinal basis, to relate outcomes to current environmental conditions such as pollution, and to better comprehend theories about biology in the school curriculum. This study has three goals: 1) understanding how to create activities that encourage parents/guardians and their children to engage in serious scientific activities at home, 2) understanding how to better link specific school-based science curriculum units to home-based science activities, and 3) understanding how TV-based Internet technology can be used to support scientific inquiry activities by parents/guardians and children in home settings. As a pilot activity, the investigator is already working with four homes in which children have asthma, providing Web-TV service and prototype versions of learning materials. The proposed study would scale this initial effort into a one-year project linking a 7th grade classroom in an urban middle school to the homes of all children in that class. The project will develop and study four learning activities will be developed and studied, deriving design implications for researchers doing similar studies. The project will aid in understanding how consumer and entertainment technology can increase children's motivation and performance in science classes. This type of study is of great value for researchers in informal science education and in school-home linkages, as well as those concerned with improving the science knowledge of parents. ***