Mind, Brain and Education in STEM Learning: Research, Policy and Practice Collaboratory

授予纽约大学的这一奖项将为定于2020年1月在纽约市举行的关于心灵、大脑和教育的研讨会提供支持。它将把来自多个领域(如教育研究、认知科学、神经科学)的研究人员与教育实践者(如教师、地区领导人、家长)聚集在一起，在正式和非正式的背景下分享关于大脑研究和STEM学习的想法。这将是研究人员与教育工作者分享他们在数值处理和STEM问题解决等主题方面的前沿工作成果的机会，反过来，教育工作者也可以就转化为实践的问题直接向研究人员提供意见。它还将为教育工作者提供机会，帮助推动基础和应用研究议程。研讨会的目标是为研究人员、教育工作者、家长和政策影响者之间的持续合作开发新的模式。该项目由EHR核心研究计划资助，该计划支持推动STEM学习研究文献的基础研究。研讨会将探索新生的心智、大脑和教育领域的研究人员和教育工作者之间互动的创新模式，以合作为中心--由一系列顶尖专家就特定主题进行桌上讨论，以促进对话--以及网络会议、快速演讲、主题演讲和致力于发现聚集社区持续互动的新模式的会议。具体主题可能包括与在STEM中诱导持久记忆有关的认知神经科学发现，关于数学正规学习所依据的几何直觉的认知发现，在STEM教育中建立研究人员与从业者的伙伴关系，在中学水平上教授科学，支持博物馆与大学的合作，以及公共外展的最佳实践。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award to New York University will provide support for a workshop on Mind, Brain, and Education scheduled to be held in New York City in January 2020. It will bring researchers from multiple fields (e.g., education research, cognitive science, neuroscience) together with education practitioners (e.g., teachers, district leaders, parents) to share ideas about brain research and STEM learning in both formal and informal contexts. It will be an opportunity for researchers to share the results of their cutting-edge work on such topics as numerical processing and STEM problem solving with educators and, in turn, for educators to have direct input to researchers about issues concerning the translation to practice. It will also provide educators with the opportunity to help drive basic and applied research agendas. The goal of the workshop is to develop new models for sustained collaborations among researchers, educators, parents, and policy influencers. The project is funded by the EHR Core Research program, which supports fundamental research that advances the research literature on STEM learning.The workshop will explore innovative models of interaction between researchers and educators in the nascent field of Mind, Brain, and Education, centering on collaboratories - table discussions on specific topics led by a range of top experts so as to foster dialogue - as well as networking sessions, rapid-fire talks, keynote addresses, and a session devoted to discovering new models for sustained interaction of the gathered communities. The specific topics will may include cognitive neuroscientific findings related to inducing durable memories in STEM, cognitive findings about the geometric intuitions that underlie formal learning in mathematics, establishing researcher-practitioner partnerships in STEM education, teaching science at the secondary school level, supporting museum-university collaborations, and best practices in public outreach.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.