Broadening Participation at the Scratch@MIT Conference

扩大 Scratch@MIT 会议的参与范围

• 批准号: 1041290
• 负责人: Mitchel Resnick
• 金额: $ 1.63万
• 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: 2010-08-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Scratch; MIT; Conference

In 2003, the PI's research group at the MIT Media Lab was awarded a four-year grant from the National Science Foundation (ITR-0325828) to develop a new programming environment, called Scratch, that enables young people to create their own interactive stories, games, animations, and simulations - and share their creations with one another online. The Scratch website (http://scratch.mit.edu), launched in May 2007, has become a vibrant online community, with 500,000 registered members sharing, discussing, and remixing one another's projects.This summer, the Scratch group is hosting a conference, called Scratch@MIT, for educators, researchers, developers, and others who support the use of Scratch, so that they can share best practices with one another (see http://scratch.mit.edu/conference). The PI previously hosted one similar Scratch conference, in July 2008 at MIT. The conference attracted great interest: registration reached full capacity of 300 people a full month before the conference. The Scratch group is increasing the maximum number of participants for this summer's conference to 350 people, and they again expect to reach full capacity.Intellectual Merit. As young people program and share Scratch projects, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively - essential skills for success in the 21st century. Educators attending the Scratch@MIT conference will have the opportunity to participate in hands-on workshops, share experiences and ideas, and learn about new techniques and strategies, so that they are better able to support and facilitate student learning with Scratch in their own educational contexts.Broader Impact. Since Scratch software is available free of charge, it has attracted a broad and diverse community of users. The investigators want to make sure that participation at the Scratch@MIT conference is similarly broad and diverse. They realize that registration fees and travel costs could make it difficult for some people to participate in the conference. With this support they will waive registration fees for 50 conference participants who would not otherwise be able to attend. They expect that this will allow participation by more educators from public schools and community centers (who typically have less access to funding than researchers or teachers from private schools). By making the conference accessible to those who could not otherwise afford the registration fees, they expect an increase in the overall diversity of participants at the conference.

2003年，MIT Media Lab的PI研究小组获得了国家科学基金会（ITR-0325828）的四年赠款，以开发一个名为Scratch的新的编程环境，该环境使年轻人能够创建自己的互动故事，游戏，动画和模拟 - 并在线共享自己的作品。 The Scratch website (http://scratch.mit.edu), launched in May 2007, has become a vibrant online community, with 500,000 registered members sharing, discussing, and remixing one another's projects.This summer, the Scratch group is hosting a conference, called Scratch@MIT, for educators, researchers, developers, and others who support the use of Scratch, so that they can share best practices with one another (see http://scratch.mit.edu/conference）。 PI此前于2008年7月在麻省理工学院举行了一次类似的刮擦会议。会议引起了极大的兴趣：注册在会议前一个月的整个月达到了300人。 Scratch Group将今年夏天会议的最大参与者数量增加到350人，他们再次期望达到全部功能。随着年轻人的计划和分享从头开始的项目，他们学会了创造性地思考，系统地思考和协作工作 - 在21世纪成功的基本技能。参加SCRATCH@MIT会议的教育工作者将有机会参加动手的讲习班，分享经验和想法，并了解新技术和策略，以便他们能够更好地支持和促进学生在自己的教育环境中进行从事的学生学习。由于Scratch软件可免费使用，因此它吸引了广泛而多样的用户社区。调查人员希望确保参加SCRATCH@MIT会议的参与既广泛又多样。他们意识到，注册费和旅行成本可能会使某些人很难参加会议。在此支持下，他们将放弃50名参与者的注册费，原本将无法参加。他们预计，这将允许公立学校和社区中心的更多教育者参与（通常比私立学校的研究人员或老师少获得资金的机会）。通过让那些无法负担注册费的人可以访问会议，他们预计会议会议的总体多样性会增加。