Physical Computing for Students and Teachers

这是一个为期三年的项目，旨在培养高中教师为学生提供物理计算(大学前教育中的一个新兴领域)体验的能力。物理计算是一种参与性活动，在这种活动中，计算机意识到人类，并产生环境或对象，以娱乐、娱乐或提供信息的方式表达人类设计者的技术、美学、社会或政治愿景。它的智力优势植根于一种跨学科的方法，即应用STEM的知识和技能来开发原创产品和环境，这些产品和环境虽然扎根于科学和数学，但也包括艺术和人文学科。该倡议的基于调查的方法促进了发现并加深了对物理计算及其所体现的STEM知识和技能的理解。在三年的过程中，该项目的目标将通过课程和课外计划为大约90名高中教师和270名学生提供服务，这些学生主要是低收入年轻人和代表不足的少数族裔。交付内容包括：物理计算课程指南、教师和学生培训计划、项目网站、网络、专业发展计划和会议。所有书面材料和专业发展计划都将每年进行原型制作、审查和修订，最终版本将在第三年结束时完成。

This is a three-year project designed to build the capacity of high school teachers to provide physical computing (an emerging field in pre-college education) experiences for their students. Physical computing is a participatory activity in which the computer becomes aware of the human and produces environments or objects that express the technical, aesthetic, social or political vision of the human designer in ways that amuse, amaze or inform. Its intellectual merit is rooted in an interdisciplinary approach of applying STEM knowledge and skills to develop original and creative products and environments that, while firmly rooted in science and mathematics, also encompass the arts and humanities. The inquiry-based approach of the initiative promotes discovery and deepens understanding of physical computing and the STEM knowledge and skills it embodies. Over the course of three years the project's goals will be reached by serving approximately 90 high school teachers and 270 students, primarily low income youngsters and underrepresented minorities, through their courses and after school programs. The deliverables include: a physical computing curriculum guide, training programs for teachers and students; a project website; networks; professional development programs and conferences. All written materials and professional development programs will be prototyped, reviewed and revised annually, with the final versions completed at the end of Year Three.