CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research on Learning Technologies: Beyond Black Boxes: Bring Transparency and Aesthetics Back to Scientific Instruments

CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS 学习技术合作研究：超越黑匣子：让科学仪器回归透明和美观

• 批准号: 9616444
• 负责人: Mitchel Resnick
• 金额: $ 88.07万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-01 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9616444&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CISE; EHR; ENG; MPS; Collaborative

9616444 Resnick, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research Learning Technologies: Beyond Black Boxes: Bringing Transparency and Aesthetics back to Scientific Instruments Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded $880,658 over 3 years for a collaborative project between MIT, Wellesley College and the University of Colorado, to develop computational tools and project materials to allow children to create their own scientific instruments, engaging them in designing and building, as well as in observing, measuring and interpreting. It is hypothesized that more students, like scientists of old, will be motivated to participate in scientific activities, and in addition the design process will help them develop critical capacities for evaluation. The project promises to provide students with deeper understanding of the relationships between science and technology, and between science and the real world. The project will develop a family of tiny, fully programmable computational devices (crickets) that students can embed in everyday objects. Crickets can control motors and lights, receive information from sensors and communicate with one another via infrared light. The technologies will be evaluated in a range of settings, including work with teachers in classrooms and a vocational-technical school. In addition to testing their hypothesis, the PI's will evaluate theoretical learning issues of balance between physical and virtual objects, and between "transparent" and "opaque" objects.

9616444 Resnick, Michael Massachusetts Institute of Technology CISE/EHR/ENG/MPS Collaborative Research Learning Technologies: Beyond Black Boxes: Bringing Transparency and Aesthetics back to Scientific Instruments Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded $880,658 over 3 years for a collaborative project between MIT, Wellesley College and the University of Colorado, to develop computational tools and project materials to允许孩子创建自己的科学仪器，使他们参与设计和建造以及观察，测量和解释。 假设越来越多的学生（如Old的科学家）将有动力参加科学活动，此外，设计过程将有助于他们发展关键的评估能力。 该项目有望使学生对科学与技术之间以及科学与现实世界之间的关系有更深入的了解。 该项目将开发一个一个小型，完全可编程的计算设备（板球）的家庭，学生可以嵌入日常对象。 板球可以控制电动机和灯光，从传感器接收信息，并通过红外光线进行通信。 这些技术将在各种环境中进行评估，包括与教室和职业技术学校的教师合作。 除了检验其假设外，PI还将评估物理和虚拟对象之间以及“透明”和“不透明”对象之间平衡的理论学习问题。