NSDL Backpack

NSDL背包

基本信息

批准号：
1043616
负责人：
Michael Garn
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Southern Regional Education Board
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：
2010-12-01 至 2011-11-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1043616&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NSDL Backpack

项目摘要

Research shows that learning that occurs outside the classroom can be a critical STEM career catalyst. In fact, 75 percent of science category Nobel Prize winners indicate that their passion for science was first sparked in non-school, independent learning environments. The NSDL Backpack provides tools and services that increase the numbers of learners using high-quality, relevant NSDL content in science competitions. The potential impact is significant since nationally, science competitions engage more than 9 million K-12 students every year. The NSDL Backpack prototype demonstrates how a learner-centered service, using web-based tools and resources, and partnering with a national science competition, can increase utilization of the NSDL. Using a website and tools designed by a learner focus group, the Backpack is making NSDL assets, selected and aligned to the challenges by the Destination ImagiNation (DI) curriculum mangers and Backpack staff, available directly to participants in the DI science challenge. The Backpack pathway is contributing to the intellectual understanding of how students use technology to learn outside of formal, teacher-directed settings. By increasing the number of learners using NSDL content (only 23% of NSDL searchers in a recent survey were students) and by studying their needs directly, the NSDL Backpack is informing and fostering developments at other NSDL pathways and other NSF research projects, as well as broader research into how self-directed learners learn.

研究表明，在课堂外发生学习可能是重要的STEM职业催化剂。实际上，诺贝尔奖获得者的科学类别中有75％表明，他们对科学的热情首先是在非学校独立学习环境中引起的。 NSDL背包提供了工具和服务，可在科学竞赛中使用高质量的NSDL内容来增加学习者的数量。潜在的影响很大，因为在全国范围内，科学竞赛每年都会吸引超过900万K-12学生。 NSDL背包原型展示了以学习者为中心的服务，使用基于Web的工具和资源以及与国家科学竞赛合作的方式如何增加NSDL的利用率。使用学习者焦点小组设计的网站和工具，背包正在制作NSDL资产，并符合目的地想象力（DI）课程漫画和背包员工的挑战，并直接向DI Science Challence的参与者提供。背包途径有助于对学生如何在正式的教师指导的环境之外学习技术的知识理解。通过增加使用NSDL含量的学习者数量（最近的调查中，只有23％的NSDL搜索者是学生），并且通过直接研究他们的需求，NSDL背包正在为其他NSDL Pathways和其他NSF研究项目的发展提供通知和促进发展，以及对自学学习者学习方式的广泛研究。