GSE/COM Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3)

教育发展中心，(EDC)教科文组织与教育、青年媒体和商业伙伴合作，正在制作一个由青年制作的网络媒体系列和关于科学和工程职业的配套教育者材料，对象是来自服务不足群体（少数民族人口、社会经济地位低的青年和残疾人）的女孩。女孩沟通职业联系（GC 3）项目？的媒体系列-由中学年龄的女孩制作的短视频片段-将捕捉女孩基于探究的学习经历，因为她们探究成为一名科学家或工程师意味着什么。这些视频将鼓励女孩在日常生活中看到科学，它与现在对她们最重要的事情的相关性（例如，体育，艺术，音乐），并利用这种联系来激发对科学和工程（S/E）职业的兴趣和知识。第三次全球会议还将为正式和非正式教育工作者建立一个强大的教育工作者伙伴网站和辅助材料。智力优势-第三届大会汇集了来自正规和非正规教育、研究、青年媒体和商业界的高能力合作者，他们是各自领域的领导者，有丰富的内容和专门知识可供借鉴。GC 3采取以用户和学习者为中心的发展方法-青年及其教育工作者将参与项目发展和分发的所有方面。该项目建立在广泛的研究和以前的项目，以探究为基础的学习和程序开发。它利用强大的，多阶段的，参与性研究的经验，并利用它来告知创建资源的过程，说明年轻女性及其教育工作者的可复制方式，使有关STEM职业和途径的有意义的发现。更广泛的影响-沿着其传播伙伴，使全国数千所学校和青年服务组织的学生和教育工作者参与国家建设？的STEM能力。为教师和其他教育工作者提供背景资源，以帮助他们以实质性的方式将媒体系列融入他们的课堂和课程。通过突出来自美国各地不同社会经济和地理位置的女孩，视频片段的影响力和吸引力是广泛的。该系列包括双语内容，以及为听力和视力受损的观众提供的隐藏式字幕和画外音，从而使尽可能多的观众能够观看视频。最终，GC 3项目帮助全国各地的女孩对她们的世界产生新的好奇心，并开始看到与她们自己未来的联系。它鼓励他们考虑STEM职业，并帮助他们在从初中到高中的过渡中做出更明智的决定。通过打开探索新职业选择的大门，这些视频让年轻女性将STEM视为日常生活中可行的一部分，既是玩耍的来源，也是严肃的学术追求。

Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC) in collaboration with partners in education, youth media and business, is creating a youth-produced, web-based media series and companion educator materials on science and engineering careers, targeting girls from underserved groups (minority populations, youth of low SES and those with disabilities). The Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3) project?s media series--short video segments produced by middle school aged girls--will capture the inquiry-based learning experiences of girls, as they investigate what it means to be a scientist or engineer. The videos will encourage girls to see the science in their everyday lives, its relevance to things most important to them now (e.g., sports, art, music), and leverage that connection to spark interest in, and knowledge of, science and engineering (S/E) careers. GC3 will also develop a robust companion Educator Web site and supporting materials for formal and informal educators. Intellectual Merit--GC3 brings together high capacity collaborators from formal and informal education, research, youth media and business, who are leaders in their fields and who have rich content and expertise to draw upon. GC3 takes a user and learner centered development approach--youth and their educators will be involved in all aspects of the project's development and distribution. The project builds upon extensive research and previous projects on inquiry-based learning and program development. It leverages experience with powerful, multi-phase, participatory research and uses it to inform the process of creating resources that illustrate replicable ways for young women and their educators to make meaningful discoveries about STEM careers and pathways. Broader Impacts--GC3, along with its dissemination partners, engages students and educators in thousands of schools and youth-serving organizations around the country in building the nation?s STEM capacity. Teachers and other educators are provided with contextual resources to help them integrate the media series into their classrooms and programs in substantive ways. By highlighting girls from diverse socioeconomic and geographic locations throughout the United States, impact and appeal of the video segments are broad. The series includes bilingual content, as well as closed-captioning and voiceovers for hearing- and visually-impaired viewers, thereby making the videos accessible to the widest audience possible. Ultimately, project GC3 helps girls across the country develop a new curiosity about their world and begin to see connections to their own futures. It encourages them to consider STEM careers and helps them make more informed decisions as they move through the middle to high school transition. By opening doors of exploration into new career options, the videos allow young women to see STEM as a viable part of everyday life, a source of both play and serious academic pursuit.