Design Squad Global

这个项目将有助于解决对新工程劳动力的迫切需求。中学生将进入一个日益全球化的劳动力市场。他们不仅需要技术技能，还需要全球竞争力，包括：调查世界、认识观点、交流想法和采取行动的能力。这种模式将工程学与全球竞争力相结合，并将提供有关这种学习体验如何影响学生和教育者的新知识。该项目建立在之前由美国国家科学基金会资助、WGBH开发的设计小组项目的成功基础上，该项目实施了全国中学生工程教育模式。该项目将这种模式扩展到国际，将美国的青年与南部非洲（包括南非、博茨瓦纳和斯威士兰）的青年联系起来。项目合作伙伴是FHI 360，这是一个在全球60个国家帮助建设改善生活能力的非营利组织。他们将促进南部非洲课后项目的实施。美国的传播合作伙伴包括Promise Neighborhoods Institute、Middle Start、Every Hour Counts和National Girls Collaborative Project。项目可交付成果包括全球工程课程；提供视频、游戏、活动的网络平台；课后俱乐部指南；以及非正式工程教育工作者的实践社区。知识建设部分将提供新的证据，说明高质量的可获取资源和策略如何影响学生的全球能力和工程技能的发展，以解决现实世界的问题。将采用迭代方法开发资源，包括全球工程课后课程、俱乐部指南和其他组成部分。该方法使用一个持续的改进循环，包括：评估/设计、测试/实施、综合/反映和利用/传播。总结性评估将提供证据，证明这种协作工作是否以及如何建立儿童对工程的理解、参与的动机以及为解决紧迫的全球问题采取明智行动的信心。这将有助于开展更广泛的研究，探讨参与全球合作工程问题是否以及如何为背景、经历和机会截然不同的儿童带来更大的自我效能感。这个项目将增加新的知识，让我们了解如何在全球背景下和全球合作伙伴中扩展美国久经磨练的Design Squad模式。该提案由EHR/DRL， Engineering/EEC和国际科学与工程共同资助。在项目期间，将为美国约12.5万名儿童和南部非洲约5000名儿童提供服务。从长远来看，随着全球对这些资源的持续获取，覆盖范围可能会达到数百万人。

This project will help address the urgent need for a new engineering workforce. Middle school students will be entering a workforce that is increasingly global. They will need not only technical skills but also global competencies including: the ability to investigate the world, recognize perspectives, communicate ideas, and take action. This model integrates engineering with global competencies and will provide new knowledge about how this type of learning experience impacts students and educators.This project builds on the success of the previous Design Squad project funded by NSF and developed by WGBH, which has implemented a national model for engineering education for middle school youth. This project expands the model internationally, connecting U.S. based youth with those in Southern Africa (including South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland). The project partners are FHI 360, a non-profit organization in 60 countries around the world that helps build capacity for improving lives. They will facilitate the implementation of the afterschool programs in Southern Africa . The US dissemination partners include Promise Neighborhoods Institute, Middle Start, Every Hour Counts, and the National Girls Collaborative Project. Project deliverables include a global engineering curriculum; a web platform with videos, games, activities; an afterschool Club Guide; and a Community of Practice for informal engineering educators.A knowledge building component will provide new evidence on how high quality accessible resources and strategies can impact students' development of global competencies and engineering skills to solve real world problems. An iterative approach will be used to develop the resources including the global engineering afterschool curriculum, Club guide, and other components. The methodology uses a continuous cycle of improvement including: assess/design, test/ implement, synthesize/reflect, and utilize/disseminate. The Summative Evaluation will generate evidence about whether and how this kind of collaborative work builds children's understanding of engineering, motivation to participate, and confidence in taking informed action on behalf of pressing global problems. This will contribute to a larger body of work about whether and how engaging with global, collaborative engineering problems leads to greater self-efficacy for children with very different backgrounds, experiences, and opportunities. This project will add new knowledge about how the well-honed Design Squad model in the U.S. can be expanded with a global context and global partners. This proposal was co-funded by EHR/DRL, Engineering/EEC, and International Science and Engineering.During the project period approximately 125,000 children in the US and 5000 children in southern Africa will be reached. In the long term, with the continued global access to the resources, the reach will potentially be in the millions.