Collaborative Research: CI-TEAM Demo: Harnessing Cyberinfrastructure for K-12 STEM Education

合作研究：CI-TEAM 演示：利用网络基础设施进行 K-12 STEM 教育

• 批准号: 1135423
• 负责人: Christopher Hill
• 金额: $ 7万
• 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: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CI; TEAM; Demo

The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is being constructed in Holyoke, an old mill town on the Connecticut River that enjoyed a thriving industrial past and that has experienced a difficult recent past due to the decline of manufacturing. Attracted by Holyoke's abundant and low-cost hydroelectric power, a consortium of five major universities - Boston University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts, in partnership with EMC, Cisco and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - are constructing the MGHPCC, a $168M state-of-the-art high performance computing center. The MGHPCC Consortium and the State are strongly committed to having the center anchor an "Innovation District" that will revitalize the economy of Holyoke and create educational opportunities for the community. At the same time, UMass and the City formed a Springfield Initiative to address education and economic issues. Using the opportunity to leverage these events and partnerships, UMass Amherst and MIT execute this demonstration project to harness the cloud computing capabilities of the new center in service of K-12 STEM education in the Holyoke/Springfield area - providing a model for the state, region and the nation. This effort is developing an easy-to-use student interface allows students to easily access the MGHPCC cloud in STEM curricula. MIT developed the Virtual Interactive Textbook (VIT) - a new educational tool that provides support for students running computational experiments in order to study natural phenomena such as weather and climate change. VITs allow students to set up simulation experiment parameters on small scale devices that can then be run "in the cloud", returning the results for the students to assess and incorporate into broader project assignments. Several groups at UMass Amherst have collaborated on the development of a technology called the Electronic Integrated Book (EIB), which evolved from a successful online homework system. A major goal of this project is to combine the power of the VIT, which is an interactive, experimental paradigm providing access to the computational power of the cloud, with the assessment-driven paradigm of the EIB, which engages students as they read the text in the incremental practice of new concepts. Within the EIB framework they invoke VIT-style experiments, and have the EIB capture and store the results of these activities for the teacher to examine. Team members have critical expertise in cognition and learning with technology in science education settings, in the development of digital learning environments, and in integrating technology, language and literacy practices of culturally and linguistically diverse urban adolescents (particularly African Americans). Close ties to the Holyoke/Springfield schools will enhance the effort to refine existing STEM curricular support materials being developed by MIT atmospheric scientists that will use the new technology platforms. As a team, we will deploy and evaluate this application in classrooms, assess learning outcomes and evaluate the overall project. In year 2 we will host workshops for teachers throughout the region to disseminate the results and recruit new users. Intellectual Merit. HPC data centers are capable of sophisticated scientific simulations, but these are not easily accessible to K-12 students and teachers. Exploiting cloud computing embedded in an assessment platform represents a new approach to teaching science. Many scientific phenomena are not easy to reproduce in a classroom experiment so experiments in the classroom only approximate the real world. Students can carry out computational experiments (in a pedagogically-sound context) using modeling tools that can closely approximate both real world processes and their classroom experiment counterparts. This work will result in an innovative teaching platform that moves beyond present textbooks and eBooks. Broader Impacts. The technology and educational modules can be applied in many scenarios in many areas of science. This team will focus on developing modules that can be included in regular high/middle school curricula that will help students make the connection between principles and relations in science. This should lead to increased interest in science and an increase intake in science majors in higher education. The systems can also be used in informal settings such as museums and libraries to raise public awareness of weather and climate issues. This is providing an opportunity to bring the Holyoke (77% Latino/a) and Springfield (22% African-American and 31% Hispanic) K12 student population into the computing and STEM education pipeline.

马萨诸塞州绿色高性能计算中心（MGHPCC）是在霍利奥克建造的，霍利奥克是康涅狄格河上的一个老磨坊城镇，享有繁荣的工业过去，由于制造业的下降，最近经历了近期过去的过去。霍利奥克（Holyoke）丰富且低成本的水力发电能力吸引了五所主要大学 - 波士顿大学，哈佛大学，马萨诸塞州科技研究所，东北大学和马萨诸塞大学，与EMC，Cisco，Cisco，Cisco，Cisco和Massachusetts的联邦 - 正在建立MGHPCC的CONCTICE MCHPCC，AUCH PRACGING a 168 cment-in-in-1688， MGHPCC财团和国家强烈致力于将中心锚定为“创新区”，将振兴霍利奥克的经济并为社区创造教育机会。同时，UMass和该市构成了一项旨在解决教育和经济问题的倡议。 UMass Amherst和MIT利用机会利用这些事件和合作伙伴关系，执行该示范项目，以利用新中心的云计算能力，以在Holyoke/Springfield地区为K -12 STEM教育提供服务 - 为州，地区和国家提供模型。这项工作正在开发易于使用的学生界面，使学生可以轻松访问STEM课程中的MGHPCC云。麻省理工学院开发了虚拟互动教科书（VIT） - 一种新的教育工具，为运行计算实验的学生提供支持，以研究天气和气候变化等自然现象。 VIT允许学生在小型设备上设置仿真实验参数，然后可以“在云中”运行，从而返回学生评估并纳入更广泛的项目分配的结果。 UMass Amherst的几个小组合作开发了一项名为电子综合书籍（EIB）的技术，该技术是从成功的在线家庭作业中演变而来的。该项目的一个主要目标是将VIT的力量结合在一起，VIT的力量是一种交互式的实验范式，可访问对云的计算能力，以及EIB评估驱动的EIB范式，在新概念的增量实践中读取文本时，它们会吸引学生。在EIB框架内，他们调用了VIT风格的实验，并让EIB捕获并存储这些活动的结果，以供老师检查。团队成员在科学教育环境中，数字学习环境的发展以及整合文化和语言多元化的城市青少年（尤其是非裔美国人）的技术，语言和识字实践方面在认知和学习方面具有重要的专业知识。与霍利奥克/斯普林菲尔德学校的紧密联系将加强努力，以完善MIT大气科学家开发的现有STEM课程支持材料，这些材料将使用新的技术平台。作为一个团队，我们将在课堂上部署和评估此应用程序，评估学习成果并评估整个项目。在第二年，我们将举办该地区教师的讲习班，以传播结果并招募新用户。智力优点。 HPC数据中心能够进行复杂的科学模拟，但是K-12学生和老师不容易获得这些模拟。嵌入在评估平台中的云计算是一种新的教学科学方法。在课堂实验中，许多科学现象不容易复制，因此在课堂上进行的实验仅近似现实世界。学生可以使用建模工具进行计算实验（在教学上的上下文中），这些工具可以近似于现实世界过程及其课堂实验。这项工作将导致一个创新的教学平台，该平台超越了当前的教科书和电子书。更广泛的影响。该技术和教育模块可以在许多科学领域的许多情况下应用。该团队将专注于开发可以包含在常规高/中学课程中的模块，这将帮助学生建立科学原则与关系之间的联系。这将导致对科学的兴趣增加，并增加高等教育科学专业的摄入量。这些系统也可以用于非正式环境，例如博物馆和图书馆，以提高公众对天气和气候问题的认识。这提供了一个机会，将霍利奥克（77％的拉丁裔/A）和斯普林菲尔德（22％的非裔美国人和31％西班牙裔）K12学生群体带入计算机和STEM教育管道。