POWRE:Building Expertise and Credibility in Instructional Technology by Developing Data-Based Investigations Using Environmental Sensors at the Black Rock Forest

9973582 Kastens PI将在西北大学学习科学研究所度过一个月。 西北大学学习科学研究所率先将科学可视化技术用于K-14教育。 他们是为数不多的教育研究小组，关注地球和环境科学教育，通过（前）Co-VIS项目和（积极的）支持科学可视化环境教育项目。 通过与这个小组合作，她将加深她对认知科学的理解，因为它涉及到学习和理解，她将从他们以前在构建和测试学习环境的经验中学习，并将科学可视化工具转化为科学教育的工具。 在我访问西北期间，PI将深入阅读相关文献，并不断与了解和关心认知科学和教育的教师和研究生交谈。 她将有黑岩森林和学习阅读地图的发展努力，由专家在学习和认知，并由人谁建立和测试有效的计算机支持的学习环境的批评。 她将观看世界观察者，进步组合，和其他学习工具在K-14教室使用。 她将观察项目工作人员，因为他们看的学生和教师，以更好地了解迭代过程，这些工具可以改进。 她的主机和这个自我激励，自我导向的教育企业的指导将教授丹尼尔埃德尔森，支持科学可视化环境的教育项目，合作笔记本项目的首席研究员，和支持探究为基础的学习环境项目。

9973582KastensThe PI will spend one month at the Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. The Institute for Learning Sciences at Northwestern has pioneered the use of scientific visualization techniques for K-14 education. They are one of the few education research groups to pay attention to earth and environmental science education, through the (former) Co-VIS project and the (active) Supportive Scientific Visualization Environments for Education Project. By working with this group, she will deepen her understanding of cognitive science as it pertains to learning and understanding she will learn from their prior experience in constructing and testing learning environments, and in transforming scientific visualization tools into tools for science education. During my visit to Northwestern the PI will read deeply in the relevant literature, and talk constantly with faculty and graduate students who know and care about cognitive science and education. She will have Black Rock Forest and learn-to-read-maps development efforts critiqued by experts in learning and cognition, and by people who have built and tested effective computer-supported learning environments. She will watch Worldwatcher, the Progress Portfolio, and other learning tools in use in K-14 classrooms. And she will watch the project staff as they watch the students and teachers, to better understand the iterative process by which such tools can be improved. Her host and guide on this self-motivated, self-directed educational venture will be Professor Daniel Edelson, Principal Investigator of the Supportive Scientific Visualization Environments for Education Project, the Collaboratory Notebook Project, and the Supportive Inquiry-Based Learning Environments project.