Enhancing Use of Data in Education: Bridging the Scientific and Educational Communities

加强数据在教育中的使用“项目的总体目标是通过一系列年度数据教育讲习班将地球系统科学研究和教育结合起来。PIs将在科学、技术和教育界广泛开展活动，将讲习班参与者聚集在一起组成小组，了解其他群体的数据使用需求和能力，并开发教育模块，指导教师和学生使用数据和工具的有效范例。这一努力的结果最终将使地球科学数据、获取和分析这些数据的技术以及促进教育界使用这些数据和工具的教育模块能够被教育界获取和使用。这些资源将通过数字图书馆获得，如地球科学信息合作伙伴联合会的地球信息交换、国家科学数字图书馆(NSDL)和地球系统教育数字图书馆(DLESE)。该项目将促进研究与教育的积极结合，将包括数据提供者、工具开发人员、科学家、课程开发人员和教育工作者在内的不同专业群体聚集在一起，以便1)相互告知他们的数据使用需求和能力，2)为开发教育模块(地球探索工具书中的一章)贡献他们的专业知识，该模块以研究高质量的地球科学数据集和数据分析工具为特色，3)与专业不同的同事发展持续的关系。作为这一项目的结果而完成的地球探索工具书章节将向广泛的教育界提供。此外，作为地球探索工具书集合的一部分，这些章节将在一个单独资助的教师专业发展计划中亮相。这将把他们的特色数据和工具的使用扩展到全国各地的教师和学生。第二，参加讲习班的人将与他们本来不会见面的同事发展新的伙伴关系，这将极大地扩展他们在自己的专业领域中整合研究和教育的能力，以及他们参与其他不同专业群体的能力。

The overarching goal of the Enhancing the Use of Data in Education project is to integrate Earth system science research and education through a series of yearly Data in Education Workshops. The PIs will reach out broadly within the scientific, technological, and educational communities, bringing workshop participants together into small teams to learn about the data-use needs and capabilities of other groups, and to develop educational modules that guide teachers and students through valid examples for using data and tools. The outcomes of this effort will ultimately make Earth science data, the technology to access and analyze that data, and educational modules that facilitate the use of those data and tools accessible and usable by the educational community. These resources will be available through digital libraries such as the Federation of Earth Science Information Partners' Earth Information Exchange, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL), and the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE). The project will facilitate the active integration of research and education by bringing together a professionally diverse community that includes data providers, tools developers, scientists, curriculum developers, and educators for the purpose of 1) informing each other of their data use needs and capabilities, 2) contributing their expertise to the development of an educational module (a chapter in the Earth Exploration Toolbook) that features research quality Earth science datasets and data analysis tools, and 3) developing ongoing relationships with professionally diverse colleagues. The Earth Exploration Toolbook chapters that are completed as a result of this project will be made available to a broad spectrum of the educational community. In addition, as part of the Earth Exploration Toolbook collection, the chapters will be featured in a separately funded teacher professional development program. This will extend the use of their featured data and tools to teachers and students across the nation. Second, the participants in the workshops will develop new partnerships with colleagues, who they would not have met otherwise, that will greatly expand their capabilities with respect to the integration of research and education in their own fields of expertise and their ability to engage other professionally diverse communities.