U.S.-Singapore Seminar: A Collaboration with the Learning Science Laboratory of Singapore on Envisioning Learning Environments of the Future

[0722334]汉密尔顿该奖项支持美国科学家参加将在新加坡举行的关于展望未来学习环境的美国-新加坡研讨会。联合组织者是美国空军学院学习与教学研究中心的Eric Hamilton教授、新加坡南洋理工大学学习科学实验室的Chee-Kit Looi教授和美国空军科学研究办公室（AFOSR）东京办事处的Dave Sonntag博士。此外，来自其他亚洲国家的研究人员也将参加。研究人员计划将交叉研究重点放在以下两个主题上：1)学习中的交互式数字媒体和2)复杂推理和问题解决中的数学和科学建模。在数学和科学教育文献中，关于交互式数字媒体对学习影响的研究是非常及时和重要的。然而，这些研究大多侧重于交互式数字媒体的发展，而不是与使用这种媒体学习相关的认知方面（如建模或概念变化）。事实上，数字媒体的设计者和评估者对这种媒体如何促进学习有很多想法。然而，关于数字媒体的哪些特征为增强复杂的概念学习和建模提供了最大的支持，我们知之甚少。同样，关于建模的教育研究也没有过多地涉及数字媒体。这两种研究方向的整合对于未来的研究以及构建更有效的学习环境都是一个非常有前途的方向。会议将讨论诸如学习科学、人类和社会动态、教育环境结构、培养21世纪科学成熟的劳动力以及新的美国竞争力倡议等领域。共同组织者在该领域具有互补的科学专业知识。这使他们能够评估和吸引最优秀的研究人员参加会议。新加坡的学习科学实验室（LSL）是亚洲第一个这样的中心，这使它成为美国研究人员的理想合作伙伴。专题讨论会将编写一系列研究论文和政策简报，这些论文和简报将在一套论文集和已确立的研究文献中发表。此外，与会者将开发一个网站，其中将包括讨论会的介绍以及会后的重要项目。参与者还计划制定合作研究提案，提交给资助机构，并为一本书准备章节。研究人员之间的这些合作可能会对未来的学习环境产生重大的长期影响。研讨会的组织者特别努力让博士后、研究生和少数族裔成为参与者。

0722334HamiltonThis award supports the participation of American scientists in a U.S. - Singapore seminar on envisioning learning environments of the future which will be held in Singapore. The co-organizers are Professor Eric Hamilton in the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Professor Chee-Kit Looi in the Learning Sciences Laboratory at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Dr. Dave Sonntag in the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research's (AFOSR) Tokyo Office. In addition, researchers from other Asian countries will be participating. The researchers plan to focus the intersection of research on the following two topics: 1) interactive digital media in learning and 2) mathematical and scientific modeling in complex reasoning and problem-solving. The studies on the effect of interactive digital media on learning are very timely and important in mathematics and science education literature. However, most of these studies have focused more on the development of the interactive digital media rather than on cognitive aspects (such as modeling or conceptual change) associated with learning with this media. In fact, designers and evaluators of digital media have many ideas concerning how this media can facilitate learning. However, we have little information concerning which digital media features provide the most support for enhancing complex conceptual learning and modeling. Similarly, educational research on modeling has not dealt much with digital media. Integration of these two lines of research is an extremely promising direction for future research as well as for building more effective learning environments. The meeting will address areas such as learning sciences, human and social dynamics, the structure of education environments, preparation of a scientifically sophisticated twenty-first century workforce and the new American Competitiveness Initiative. The co-organizers have complementary scientific expertise in the field. This enables them to evaluate and attract the best researchers to participate in the meetings. Singapore's Learning Sciences Laboratory (LSL) is Asia's first such center which makes it an ideal partner for the U.S. researchers. The symposium will produce a series of research papers and policy briefs that will be published both in a set of proceedings and in established research literature. In addition, the participants will develop a web site which will include the seminar presentations as well as items of importance following the meeting. Participants also plan to develop collaborative research proposals for submission to funding agencies and prepare chapters for a book. These collaborations between the researchers will likely have a significant long-term impact on future learning environments. Seminar organizers have made a special effort to involve postdocs, graduate students and minorities as participants.