CDI-Type II: Collaborative Research: Preparing the Next Generation of Computational Thinkers: Transforming Learning and Education Through Cooperation in Decentralized Networks

CDI-类型 II：协作研究：培养下一代计算思想家：通过去中心化网络中的合作改变学习和教育

• 批准号: 1027848
• 负责人: Mitchel Resnick
• 金额: $ 117.9万
• 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: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1027848&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CDI; Type; II; Collaborative; Research

This project's aim is to understand collaboration, cooperation, and learning in the context of a large, distributed virtual organization consisting of children and teachers building web-based simulations and animations using the Scratch software. The PIs will study the nature and patterns of cooperation in the Scratch decentralized learning environment, establish principles to guide the development of systems that foster cooperative attitudes and behaviors, and develop strategies to cultivate computational-thinking capacities that are important for productive cooperation and problem-solving in virtual organizations. The Scratch community consists of over 400,000 registered members discussing, remixing, and reusing more than a million projects. The project is a collaborative project with researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania drawn from computer science, psychology, child development, education, organizational science, and economics.Using a novel combination of experimental and ethnographic methods, the research will provide insights into how young people cooperate in virtual organizations, their attitudes and motivations related to cooperation, and their development of computational-thinking skills and capacities necessary for productive cooperation and creative learning. The researchers expect that the findings will contribute to the design and understanding of more effective virtual organizations, particularly in the areas of learning, education, and cooperative creation. The methods used include observational studies, design interventions, and field experiments. The test bed will be the Scratch community and the evaluations will be done by mining the online record of cooperation in the construction of new simulations and animations. The outcomes of the project will include an improved Scratch environment, design principles for the construction of distributed virtual organizations that encourage cooperation and co-construction of knowledge and artifacts, and new methods of teaching computational thinking in an engaging environment. The Scratch community of 400,000 members will be part of this work. This project is potentially transformative because of the engaging nature of this particular application, because of its applicability to similar virtual communities, and because of its promise to reach a diverse community of learners.

该项目的目的是在一个大型，分布式的虚拟组织的背景下了解协作，合作和学习，该组织由儿童和教师组成，并使用Scratch软件构建基于Web的模拟和动画。 PI将研究在划痕分散学习环境中合作的性质和模式，建立原理，以指导促进合作态度和行为的系统的发展，并制定策略来培养计算思维能力，这些能力对于虚拟组织中对生产性合作和解决问题很重要。刮擦社区由超过400,000名注册成员组成，讨论，重新混合和重复使用超过一百万个项目。 The project is a collaborative project with researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania drawn from computer science, psychology, child development, education, organizational science, and economics.Using a novel combination of experimental and ethnographic methods, the research will provide insights into how young people cooperate in virtual organizations, their attitudes and motivations related to cooperation, and their development of computational-thinking skills and capacities necessary for productive合作与创造性学习。 研究人员预计，这些发现将有助于对更有效的虚拟组织的设计和理解，尤其是在学习，教育和合作创造的领域。所使用的方法包括观察性研究，设计干预措施和现场实验。测试床将是刮擦社区，评估将通过挖掘在新的模拟和动画构建中的在线合作记录来完成。该项目的结果将包括改进的刮擦环境，设计分布式虚拟组织的设计原则，以鼓励知识和文物的合作和共同建设，以及在引人入胜的环境中教授计算思维的新方法。由40万成员组成的刮擦社区将成为这项工作的一部分。由于该项目适用于类似的虚拟社区，并且由于其承诺能够吸引多样化的学习者社区，因此该项目具有变革性的变革性。