Strategies: The FabLab Classroom: Preparing Students for the Next Industrial Revolution

该项目通过开发和实施一个新的，可扩展的，个人制造实验室，教室FabLab和支持课程，向四年级和五年级的学生和教师介绍工程设计和相关数学。弗吉尼亚大学和北德克萨斯大学正在为他们的方法课程中的职前教师提供个人制作的准备。在弗吉尼亚州的10个教室和得克萨斯州的5个教室中，这些职前教师在该项目培训的硕士教师的指导下进行学生教学。参与者包括数百名职前教师和15名在职教师及其学生。康奈尔大学正在通过修改现有的更昂贵和复杂的系统来开发FabLab。FableVision和Software Mackiev正在与Peggy Healy Stearns合作开发该软件。弗吉尼亚大学和霍夫斯特拉大学正在制定课程。信息技术与教师教育协会（SITE）正在创建一个在线数字制作图书馆，以容纳课程，活动和数字设计。评估是一个准实验设计，针对15个实验教室和15个配对学校的比较教室。研究对象为职前教师、在职教师及国小学生。在数学和工程设计概念，STEM倾向，职业兴趣和教学效能方面有前后测试。使用分层线性模型和一般线性模型分析数据。这些产品包括教室FabLab，这是一种适合小学使用的计算机控制的制造单元，允许学生在计算机上设计三维物体，并由FabLab使用简单的材料建造。课程活动正在创建，试点，并在一个免费访问的数字制造图书馆。FabLab的软件由商业合作伙伴创建，以合理的成本销售。此外，该项目通过评估一个模型，通过FabLab，课程和专业发展将它们整合在一起，为数学和工程教育领域提供知识。

This project introduces 4th and 5th grade students and teachers to engineering design and associated mathematics by developing and implementing a new, scalable, personal fabrication laboratory, the Classroom FabLab, and supporting curriculum. The University of Virginia and the University of North Texas are providing preparation in personal fabrication to pre-service teachers in their methods courses. The pre-service teachers are doing their student teaching under master teachers trained by the project in ten classrooms in Virginia and five in Texas. Participants include several hundred pre-service teachers and 15 in-service teachers and their students. Cornell University is developing the FabLab by modifying an existing, more expensive and complex system. FableVision and Software Mackiev are developing the software in cooperation with Peggy Healy Stearns. Curriculum is being developed by the University of Virginia and Hofstra University. The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) is creating an online Digital Fabrication Library to house the curriculum, activities, and digital designs.The evaluation is a quasi-experimental design for 15 experimental classrooms and 15 comparison classrooms in matched schools. Evaluated groups are the pre-service teachers, the in-service teachers, and the elementary school students. There are pre-post tests in math and engineering design concepts, STEM dispositions, career interests, and teaching efficacy. Data is being analyzed with Hierarchical Linear Modeling and General Linear Modeling. The products include the Classroom FabLab, a computer-controlled manufacturing unit appropriate for use in elementary schools that allows students to design 3-dimensional objects on a computer and have them built by the FabLab using simple materials. Curriculum activities are being created, piloted, and housed in a free access Digital Fabrication Library. The software for the FabLab is being created by the commercial partners to be marketed at reasonable cost. In addition, the project contributes knowledge to the fields of mathematics and engineering education by evaluating a model that integrates them through the FabLab, curriculum, and professional development.