I-Corps: Gulliver Innovative Learning: a Platform for Managing Kinesthetic Activities

最近的报告强调，学生需要在整个教育过程中形成对科学的综合理解；特别是要把重点放在科学的核心概念上。近年来，人们越来越关注美国的科学教育。与国际方案相比，美国目前的教育系统还不够完善；这在较高年级和科学科目中尤为普遍。尽管过去几年在提高学生的阅读和写作成绩方面取得了一些成功，但科学方面的成绩仍然令人震惊地低。从这些结果可以清楚地看出，需要新的工具和技术来让学生以有意义的方式参与科学学习。拟议的项目格列佛创新学习(GIL)是一种可扩展的教育技术，它以一种有趣和令人兴奋的方式让学生参与到科学现象的建模中，同时帮助学生更好地理解这些现象。该项目有可能大大提高学生在STEM入门课程中的成绩，并影响个人的科学素养，以扩大学生对这类课程的参与。GIL提供了强大而难忘的学习体验，将使学生对自己处理STEM科目的能力充满信心。GIL平台可以扩展到教授包括医学现象在内的许多科学概念。通过这些以参与性为基础的活动，学生将更好地理解基本概念。此外，通过对使用数据的即时分析，教师将收到有关学生进度的反馈，从而了解理解上的差距，并找到进一步教授困难概念的方法。因此，教师将能够使用这些信息来帮助学生在相互关联的想法之间建立更好的联系。该团队希望使用客户发现过程来确定产品与市场的匹配，并探索不同的定价和收入模式。

Recent reports have stressed that students need to develop an integrated understanding of science throughout their education; particularly with a focus on core concepts in science. In recent years there has been growing concern regarding science education in the United States. The current United States education system falls short when compared to international programs; this is particularly prevalent at higher-grade levels and in scientific subjects. While some success has been achieved in increasing student achievement in reading and writing over the past few years, achievement in science has remained shockingly low. It is clear from these results that new tools and technologies are needed to engage students in science learning in meaningful ways. The proposed project, Gulliver Innovative Learning (GIL) is a scalable educational technology that engages students in modeling scientific phenomena in a fun and exciting way, while at the same time helping students to better understand such phenomena. This project has the potential of substantially enhancing student success in introductory level STEM courses and of influencing scientific literacy among individuals to broaden student participation in such courses. GIL provides a powerful and memorable learning experience that will give students confidence in their ability to tackle STEM subjects. The GIL platform can be extended to teach many scientific concepts including medical phenomena. Through these engaging participation-based activities, students will develop a better understanding of the underlying concepts. Furthermore, through instant analysis of the usage data, instructors will receive feedback regarding the progress of their students, leading to knowledge of gaps in understanding and resulting in ways to further instruct difficult concepts. As a result, instructors will be able to use this information to help students make a better connection between interrelated ideas. The team expects to use the customer discovery process to identify a product-market fit and to explore different pricing and revenue models.