I-Corps: Modular Microcontroller Prototyping Tools to Facilitate Learning and Collaboration

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使新手更容易学习电子和计算概念，使这些学科更容易获得，更容易获得和包容。嵌入式技术的普及和进步正在刺激对训练有素的STEM员工的需求，以创建物联网（IoT）设备。然而，电子学和计算学很难学，现有的干预措施往往导致妇女和少数民族代表人数不足。该项目中的教育技术通过学习材料满足了这些需求，这些学习材料旨在通过体验式教育体验吸引学生的多样性，这些体验式教育体验可以融入各种环境，通过设计计算对象来教育学生。该项目的重点是通过课程、技术和支持系统来扩大参与并提高学生的学习成果，该支持系统提供了满足不同技能水平学生需求的工具，同时为学生提供了进入计算和工程的非传统途径。专注于工具的设计和开发，以促进学生在构建引人入胜的项目时学习电子和计算概念。物理计算的文献主要是由非正式的教育干预措施，还没有了解如何改进的工具和学习活动，以满足教师和学生的需求。该项目将开始调查正规教育中各利益攸关方的需求，以了解如何接触公立高中的广大学生。此外，我们的模块化教育技术通过专注于电路内信号的可见性，同时促进互动，使学习者专注于遇到重要概念，从而为可编程电子产品带来清晰度。通过揭示硬件和软件之间的交互，这些工具有助于学生了解嵌入式物联网（IoT）技术的工作原理。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is to make it easier for novices to learn electronics and computing concepts making these disciplines more available, accessible, and inclusive. The prevalence and advances in embedded technology are spurring increasing need for trained STEM employees to create Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, electronics and computing are difficult to learn and the interventions that exist often result in an underrepresentation of women and minorities. The educational technology in this project addresses these needs through learning materials designed to engage a diversity of students through experiential educational experiences that can integrate into a variety of contexts to educate students through design of computational objects. The project focuses on broadening participation and improving student learning outcomes through curriculum, technology, and a support system that provides tools that account for the needs of students with varying skill levels, while offering students non-traditional pathways into computing and engineering.This I-Corps project builds on work in physical computing education, focusing on the design and development of tools to facilitate learning about electronics and computing concepts as students build engaging projects. The literature in physical computing is dominated by informal educational interventions and has yet to understand how to improve the tools and learning activities to address the needs of teachers and students. This project will begin to investigate the needs of the various stakeholders within formal education to understand how to reach the broad range of students in public high schools. Furthermore, our modular educational technology brings clarity to the programmable electronics by focusing on visibility of the signals within the circuits, while promoting interactions that focus the learner to encounter important concepts. By shedding light on the interactions between the hardware and software, the tools facilitate students in understanding how the embedded Internet of Things (IoT) technology works.