World Maker Faire Workshop

该奖项支持在纽约科学馆举办的2010年世界制造者博览会期间举办的研讨会。研讨会的目的是将Maker社区与正式和非正式的科学和数学学习专家聚集在一起。Maker运动是O‘Reilly Media的Maker Media部门最近推动的一种现象。目前有三个美国制造商博览会和一个国际制造商博览会，每个都有大约30,000人参加。展会由以技术丰富和创新为特征的展品组成，要么由参展商开发(DIY或DIY)，要么越来越多地作为合作展品(DIWO或DIWO)。参观Faire的参与者直接与开发商(S)和展品互动，学习与设计和制造他们自己的产品相关的技术和工程技能。纽约科学馆研讨会将由白宫科学和技术办公室副主任Tom Kalil和Maker Faire的创始人Dale Dougherty共同主持。它将有大约50名参与者，来自学术界、商界、非营利组织以及州、地方和联邦政府。研讨会的参与者将在研讨会的前一天在纽约科学馆观看并参加Maker Face。在第二天，与会者将讨论以下问题：1)创造者运动的创新如何为科学和数学教育提供信息？2)政策制定者、教育和学习科学研究人员与制造者运动之间的哪些合作可以最好地刺激科学和数学教育的创新？3)制造者社区与私人、慈善和政府部门之间可能存在哪些资助机会，以支持变革性的科学、数学教育和学习研究？研讨会将产生一份多媒体报告，对这些问题提出答案。该报告将向教育和学习科学研究界通报教育和学习创新的机会。研讨会旨在为STEM教育的政策和实践提供广泛的信息。Maker/DIY/Diwo运动专注于设计和工程。这些过程在STEM学科中很重要。特别是，这场运动激励了数以千计的个人以类似于开放源码软件运动的方式自愿参与构建基于技术的项目。如果这一动机能够被广泛利用，它可以通过STEM学习科学和教育研究的新知识来改变STEM教育。这一研讨会的更广泛影响在于已经参与Maker/DIY/DIWO项目的大量个人。如果更多的STEM内容可以与这些项目相结合，那么对科学学习和教学的影响可能是巨大的。由于Maker Fire的许多参与者来自农村社区，因此将更多的STEM内容纳入FIRE项目可能会产生扩大参与到代表不足的社区的效果。

This award supports a workshop to be held in conjunction with the 2010 World Maker Faire being hosted at the New York Hall of Science. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together the Maker community with formal and informal science and mathematics learning experts. The Maker movement is a recent phenomenon promoted by the Maker Media division of O'Reilly Media. There are currently three U.S. and one International Maker Faires, with attendance of about 30,000 each. The Faires consist of exhibits characterized as technology-rich and innovative and developed either by the exhibitor (Do-It-Yourself or DIY) or increasingly, as collaborative exhibits (Do-It-With-Others or DIWO). Participants visiting the Faires interact directly with the developer(s) and exhibits to learn the technology and engineering skills associated with designing and building their own products.The New York Hall of Science workshop will be co-chaired by Tom Kalil, Associate Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology, and Dale Dougherty, Founder of the Maker Faires. It will have approximately 50 participants drawn from academe, business, non-profits, and state, local and federal government. Workshop attendees will observe and participate in the Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science the day before the workshop. On the second day, attendees will then address the following questions: 1) How can the innovations of the Maker movement inform science and mathematics education?; 2) What collaborations between policy makers, education and learning science researchers, and the Maker Movement can best spur innovation in science and mathematics education?; 3) What funding opportunities are possible between the Maker community and the private, philanthropic, and government sectors for the support of transformative science and mathematics education and learning research? The workshop will result in a multimedia report that will propose answers to these questions. The report will inform the education and learning science research communities about opportunities for innovations in education and learning.The workshop is designed to broadly inform both policy and practice in STEM Education. The Maker/DIY/DIWO movement is focused on design and engineering. These processes are important in STEM disciplines. In particular, the movement has motivated thousands of individuals to voluntarily participate in building technology-based projects in a manner similar to the open source software movement. If this motivation can be broadly harnessed, it could transform STEM education through new knowledge of STEM learning science and education research. The broader impact of this workshop is situated in the large numbers of individuals already engaged in Maker/DIY/DIWO projects. If more STEM content can be married to these projects, then the impact to science learning and teaching could be substantial. Since many of the Maker Faire participants come from rural communities, there is an implicit promise that incorporating more STEM content into Faire projects could have the effect of broadening participation to an underrepresented community.