Pathways Project: KC Empower: Universal Access To After School STEM,

衔接项目：KC Empower：普及课后 STEM、

• 批准号: 1223822
• 负责人: Robert Hirshon
• 金额: $ 25万
• 依托单位: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1223822&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pathways; Project; KC; Empower; Universal

Kinetic City After School is a project supported by a prior NSF award that has produced over 80 activities in areas typical of after school activities such as computer games/simulations, hands-on activities, active play, and art and writing. This pathways project, KC Empower, will redesign and test five activities of the 80 activities currently developed by Kinetic City using a new approach to increase the representation of children and youth with disabilities in informal science settings. The project will test how universal design principles can be integrated with new technologies, not available when most after school STEM content was created, to address the needs of students with disabilities. The technologies used in the redesign include advanced mobile platforms and applications; search engines that sift through audio, image and video files; gaming input devices that respond to body movements; and information restructuring that allows multiple representations of content. The project will test how universal design guidelines will work with new technologies, in the short-term providing hands-on activities more accessible to students with disabilities, while increasing access for all students. The project is expected to lead to a full scale development project that will update all modules in Kinetic City After School. The target audience is 3rd - 5th grade students.The hypothesis of the project is that designing for disability can strengthen activities designed to increase science knowledge. Rather than making accommodations for persons with disabilities, it is the environment and design that are disabled, and it is better educational practice to rethink the activity from the point of view of all learners, including those with disabilities. Thus the use of universal design will address how best to present material for all users while influenced by the challenges presented by disabled users. The project includes the Coalition for Science After School, the Center for Applied Special Technology and the Afterschool Alliance.

放学后的Kinetic City是一项由先前的NSF奖的项目，该项目已在典型的课后活动的领域（例如计算机游戏/模拟，动手活动，主动游戏以及艺术以及艺术和写作）进行了80多个活动。该途径项目KC Empower将使用一种新的方法来重新设计和测试Kinetic City目前开展的80个活动的五项活动，以增加非正式科学环境中残疾儿童和残疾人的代表。该项目将测试如何将通用设计原理与新技术集成，而在创建大多数放学后的STEM内容时，无法满足残疾学生的需求。重新设计中使用的技术包括高级移动平台和应用程序；搜索筛选音频，图像和视频文件的引擎；游戏输入设备对身体运动的反应；和信息重组，允许多个内容表示。该项目将测试通用设计指南将如何与新技术一起使用，在短期提供动手活动的活动中，残疾学生更容易获得动手活动，同时增加了所有学生的访问权限。预计该项目将导致一个完整的开发项目，该项目将在放学后更新动力学城市的所有模块。目标受众是三年级的学生。该项目的假设是，为残疾设计可以增强旨在增加科学知识的活动。 与其为残疾人提供住宿，不如是残疾的环境和设计，从所有学习者（包括残障人士）的角度重新考虑活动是更好的教育实践。因此，通用设计的使用将解决如何最好地为所有用户提供材料，同时受到残疾用户提出的挑战的影响。该项目包括放学后科学联盟，应用特殊技术中心和课后联盟。