INT: Project Learning with Automated, Networked Supports (PLANS)

项目学习与自动化，网络支持（计划）将有助于在中学科学和工程教育。 这种软件技术将支持深度学习，因为学生进行基于项目的工作。 具体来说，PLANS将把头脑风暴、规划、建模、草图绘制、数据收集、绘图、设计和测试的工具与自动评估工具使用情况并生成支持学习的指导的技术联系起来。 该项目由Cyberlearning和未来学习技术计划资助，该计划将新兴技术提供的机会与人们如何学习的进步相结合。PLANS将定义一种技术支持的学习资源，该资源将联合收割机调查工具与一系列学生主导的项目相结合，并将分析技术引导学生进行更深入的理解。研究人员将探索这种类型应用于中学物理科学的一个实例，重点是能量含量，科学和工程实践以及交叉主题。通过实施和研究半学期的项目序列，研究人员将研究调查和分析技术之间的协同作用，从而获得实质性的学习成果。研究人员将与五所为不同学生群体服务的中学合作。通过对技术和项目材料的三次迭代改进，该项目将优化和记录这种方法的教育价值。

Project Learning with Automated, Networked Supports (PLANS) will contribute to science and engineering education in middle schools. This software technology will support deep learning as students carry out project-based work. Specifically, PLANS will connect tools for brainstorming, planning, modeling, sketching, data gathering, graphing, designing, and testing, with technology that automatically assesses use of the tools and generates guidance that supports learning. This project is funded by the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program, which integrates opportunities offered by emerging technologies with advances in what is known about how people learn.PLANS will define a genre of technology-enabled learning resources that combine investigation tools within a sequence of student-led projects, and analytics technologies that guide students toward deeper understanding. The researchers will explore an instance of this genre applied to middle school physical science with a focus on energy content, science and engineering practices, and cross cutting themes. By implementing and researching a half-semester sequence of projects, the researchers will examine synergies between investigation and analytic technologies that result in substantial learning gains. The researchers will collaborate with five middle schools serving diverse student populations. Through three iterations of improvements in the technologies and project materials, the project will optimize and document the educational value of this approach.