COSEE-TEK: Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence - Technology & Engineering for Knowledge

这个拟议的国家主题中心海洋科学教育知识-技术和工程（COSEE-TEK）的目标是创新和调整方法，通过将海洋科学，技术和工程联系起来，促进教师，学生，科学家和公众的STEM主题的学习和交流，以提高海洋科学教育的质量，可用性和影响力。为实现这一目标，我们提出以下目标：1）提供有效的活动，在正规和/或非正规教育环境中增进研究界的知识、教学见解、社区联系和经验，以加强更广泛的影响; 2）开发创新资源，以提高海洋科学和技术在教育工作中的质量、可用性和影响;以及3）促进海洋科学、技术、教育和公共宣传界之间的交流与合作。每一项目标都将通过一系列创新和活动来实现，这些创新和活动将不断寻求将海洋科学和技术与教育和外联联系起来。我们将展示具有新兴信息和通信技术的海洋技术，这一建议的知识价值在于它高度重视对海洋科学至关重要的工具和技术。从最早的研究船到水下呼吸器和载人潜水器，再到遥感和取样，再到观测系统，海洋技术和工程对海洋科学的进步至关重要。该中心将寻求开发来自海洋科学的创新教学资源，以及正在应用和开发的令人兴奋的新技术，以解决一系列与社会相关的主题。此外，该项目将促进研究人员，STEM（科学，技术，工程和数学）教育工作者，正式和非正式，学生和公众的学习和交流机会。该中心还将评估一些方法（技术团队，讲座，技术研究所）和媒体（网络研讨会，在线技术百科全书）的有效性，以提供和传播科学和技术内容。COSEE-TEK的活动和材料所传达的技术和工程信息将以一种任何外行都易于理解的方式呈现，从学生家长到水族馆的游客，再到参加公共讲座的老年人。将利用一个多样化的合作伙伴网络，使COSEE-TEK的工作产生更广泛的影响。该拟议的COSEE的许多活动将使用信息和通信技术，以便全球参与和获得资源。我们将与美国聋人学校合作，解决代表性不足的聋人和听力困难者的需求，并将努力吸收聋人社区的教育工作者，确保聋人可以随时使用教育材料。我们将与全国黑人潜水员协会、路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟建立更多的伙伴关系。我们将让海洋产业参与我们的技术团队，并与康涅狄格州先进技术中心合作，将海洋技术的需求和机会整合到STEM劳动力的发展中。将编制一个关于海洋技术史的本科课程单元，并在网上提供给其他学院、大学和教育设施使用。观众将包括进入工作队伍的人，以及他们的导师，他们将获得宝贵的知识，帮助他们不仅为海洋科学的职业生涯做好准备，而且在计算机科学，航运和运输业，电子，声学，数据管理和传输，数据遥测（卫星，无线电波，微波）等方面。

The goal of this proposed national thematic Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence-Technology and Engineering for Knowledge (COSEE-TEK) is to innovate and adapt approaches to improve the quality, availability, and impact of ocean science education by linking ocean science, technology, and engineering to catalyze learning and communication of STEM topics for teachers, students, scientists, and the public. To achieve this goal we propose the following objectives: 1) provide effective activities that enhance knowledge, pedagogical insights, community connections and experiences for the research community in formal and/or informal education environments to strengthen broader impacts; 2) develop innovative resources to improve the quality, availability, and impact of ocean science and technology in education efforts; and 3) foster communications and collaborations amongst the ocean science, technology, education and public outreach communities. Each of these objectives will be met through a series of innovations and activities that continually seek to link ocean science and technology with education and outreach. We will showcase ocean technologies with emerging information and communications technologies.The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in its important focus on the tools and technologies that are critical to ocean science. From the earliest research vessels to SCUBA and occupied submersibles to remote sensing and sampling to observing systems, ocean technologies and engineering have been essential to the advancement of ocean science. The Center will seek to develop innovative teaching resources derived from ocean science and the exciting new technologies being applied and developed to address a host of socially relevant topics. Furthermore, this project will catalyze learning and communication opportunities for researchers, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educators, both formal and informal, students and the public. The Center will also evaluate the effectiveness of a number of approaches (Technology Teams, lectures, Technology Institutes) and media (webinars, online encyclopedia of technology) to deliver and disseminate science and technology content. The intellectual merit is based on the technology and engineering that enables ocean science and integrating these with education, outreach and workforce development.The technical and engineering information being conveyed through COSEE-TEK activities and materials will be presented in a way that is easy to understand for any layperson, from students' parents, to the visitors at an Aquarium, to the senior citizen attending a public lecture. A diverse network of partners will be utilized to affect broader impacts of COSEE-TEK's work. Many of the activities of this proposed COSEE will use information and communications technology, allowing for global participation and access to resources. We will partner with the American School for the Deaf to address the needs of underrepresented deaf and hard of hearing and efforts will be made include educators from the deaf community and ensure that educational materials can be readily used by deaf persons. We will forge additional partnerships with the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. We will engage ocean industries in our Technology Teams and work with the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology to integrate the needs and opportunities for ocean technology in the development of STEM workforce. An undergraduate course module on the history of ocean technology will be developed and made available online for other colleges, universities and educational facilities to use. The audience will include people entering the work force, as well as their mentors, who will gain valuable knowledge to help prepare them not only for careers in ocean science, but in computer science, the shipping and transportation industry, electronics, acoustics, data management and transfer, data telemetry (satellites, radio waves, microwaves), and more.