GSE/COM Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3)

GSE/COM 女孩沟通职业联系 (GC3)

• 批准号: 0734078
• 负责人: Sarita Nair-Pillai
• 金额: $ 19.99万
• 依托单位: Education Development Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2010-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734078&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GSE; COM; Girls; Communicating; Career

Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC) in collaboration with partners in education, youth media and business, is creating a youth-produced, web-based media series and companion educator materials on science and engineering careers, targeting girls from underserved groups (minority populations, youth of low SES and those with disabilities). The Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3) project?s media series--short video segments produced by middle school aged girls--will capture the inquiry-based learning experiences of girls, as they investigate what it means to be a scientist or engineer. The videos will encourage girls to see the science in their everyday lives, its relevance to things most important to them now (e.g., sports, art, music), and leverage that connection to spark interest in, and knowledge of, science and engineering (S/E) careers. GC3 will also develop a robust companion Educator Web site and supporting materials for formal and informal educators. Intellectual Merit--GC3 brings together high capacity collaborators from formal and informal education, research, youth media and business, who are leaders in their fields and who have rich content and expertise to draw upon. GC3 takes a user and learner centered development approach--youth and their educators will be involved in all aspects of the project's development and distribution. The project builds upon extensive research and previous projects on inquiry-based learning and program development. It leverages experience with powerful, multi-phase, participatory research and uses it to inform the process of creating resources that illustrate replicable ways for young women and their educators to make meaningful discoveries about STEM careers and pathways. Broader Impacts--GC3, along with its dissemination partners, engages students and educators in thousands of schools and youth-serving organizations around the country in building the nation?s STEM capacity. Teachers and other educators are provided with contextual resources to help them integrate the media series into their classrooms and programs in substantive ways. By highlighting girls from diverse socioeconomic and geographic locations throughout the United States, impact and appeal of the video segments are broad. The series includes bilingual content, as well as closed-captioning and voiceovers for hearing- and visually-impaired viewers, thereby making the videos accessible to the widest audience possible. Ultimately, project GC3 helps girls across the country develop a new curiosity about their world and begin to see connections to their own futures. It encourages them to consider STEM careers and helps them make more informed decisions as they move through the middle to high school transition. By opening doors of exploration into new career options, the videos allow young women to see STEM as a viable part of everyday life, a source of both play and serious academic pursuit.

教育开发中心公司（EDC）与教育，青年媒体和商业合作伙伴合作，正在创建一个基于网络的媒体系列和有关科学和工程职业的伴侣教育材料，针对服务不足的团体（少数群体，低SES的青年和残疾人）的女孩）。女孩交流职业联系（GC3）项目的媒体系列 - 中学年龄女孩制作的视频片段 - 将捕捉到女孩的基于询问的学习经历，因为他们研究成为科学家或工程师意味着什么。这些视频将鼓励女孩在日常生活中看到科学，与现在对她们最重要的事物（例如体育，艺术，音乐）的关系，并利用这种联系激发了对科学和工程学（S/E）职业的兴趣和知识。 GC3还将为正式和非正式教育者提供强大的伴侣教育者网站，并为材料提供支持。智力优点-GC3汇集了来自正规和非正式教育，研究，青年媒体和商业的高能力合作者，他们是其领域的领导者，并且具有丰富的内容和专业知识可以借鉴。 GC3采用以用户和学习者为中心的开发方法 - Youth及其教育者将参与项目开发和分销的各个方面。该项目建立在广泛的研究和以前的基于询问的学习和计划开发的项目的基础上。它利用强大的，多相的参与性研究来利用经验，并使用它来为创建资源的过程提供了为年轻妇女及其教育者提供可复制方式的过程，以便对STEM职业和途径进行有意义的发现。更广泛的影响 - GC3及其传播伙伴，与全国成千上万的学校和青年服务组织中的学生和教育工作者参与建立国家的能力。为教师和其他教育工作者提供了上下文资源，以帮助他们以实质性的方式将媒体系列整合到课堂和课程中。通过强调来自美国各种社会经济和地理位置的女孩，视频细分市场的影响和吸引力很广。该系列包括双语内容，以及用于听力和视觉障碍的观众的封闭式和配音，从而使最广泛的观众可以访问这些视频。最终，GC3项目帮助全国的女孩对自己的世界产生了新的好奇心，并开始看到与自己未来的联系。它鼓励他们考虑STEM职业，并帮助他们在中学到高中过渡时做出更明智的决定。通过打开对新职业选择的探索之门，这些视频使年轻女性可以将STEM视为日常生活的可行一部分，这是游戏的来源和认真的学术追求。