Next Step Learning: Bridging Science Education and Cleantech Careers with Innovative Technologies

下一步学习：通过创新技术架起科学教育和清洁技术职业的桥梁

• 批准号: 1512868
• 负责人: Charles Xie
• 金额: $ 118.74万
• 依托单位: Concord Consortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1512868&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Next; Step; Learning; Bridging; Science

This project will create a science and engineering technology enhanced learning pathway from school to home that focuses on home energy efficiency. Students will have multiple opportunities to use what they learn about science and engineering in school to solve authentic real-world energy efficiency problems at home that could potentially lead to cleantech careers. A deeper understanding of science and engineering practices and learning how to apply what is learned in new settings contribute to energy efficiency, sustain power to millions of people, and help clean up the planet. Eight curriculum units will be jointly developed by school educators and industry partners to integrate science and engineering activities into existing school standards, instruction, and assessments. To help teachers prepare to implement these units, professional development will be designed to prepare teachers to actively guide students in the use of infrared cameras, sensors, simulations, and mixed-reality technologies. These technologies will help students visualize, investigate, and design invisible heat and mass flows in real and virtual worlds in real time as they make decisions about ways to conserve energy. This strategies project will advance efforts to better understand and promote practices that increase students' motivations and capacities to pursue careers in fields of science, technology, engineering, or mathematics through the Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers program. More than 60 teachers and 2000 students from 10 socioeconomically diverse middle and high schools in Massachusetts will participate in the project. A mixed-methods research design will capture data about teacher adoption and use, showcase student learning and application, and highlight industry roles and responsibilities in the school to home learning pathway model. These data will measure the effectiveness of the model for improving learning outcomes about home energy efficiency as well as promote student interest and motivation in cleantech careers. This project will serve as a technology-enhanced model of an education and industry collaboration transferable to other communities and states.

该项目将创建一条从学校到家庭的科学和工程技术强化学习途径，重点关注家庭能源效率。学生将有多种机会利用他们在学校学到的科学和工程知识来解决家庭中真实的现实能源效率问题，这可能会导致清洁技术职业。对科学和工程实践的更深入了解以及学习如何在新环境中应用所学到的知识有助于提高能源效率，为数百万人提供电力，并帮助清洁地球。学校教育工作者和行业合作伙伴将联合开发八个课程单元，将科学和工程活动纳入现有的学校标准、教学和评估中。为了帮助教师准备实施这些单元，我们将设计专业发展，帮助教师积极指导学生使用红外摄像机、传感器、模拟和混合现实技术。这些技术将帮助学生在做出有关节能方法的决策时，实时可视化、研究和设计现实和虚拟世界中不可见的热量和质量流。该战略项目将通过学生和教师创新技术体验计划，进一步努力更好地理解和推广实践，提高学生在科学、技术、工程或数学领域追求职业的动力和能力。来自马萨诸塞州 10 所社会经济多元化初高中的 60 多名教师和 2000 名学生将参与该项目。 混合方法的研究设计将捕获有关教师采用和使用的数据，展示学生的学习和应用，并强调学校到家庭学习路径模型中的行业角色和责任。这些数据将衡量该模型在改善家庭能源效率学习成果方面的有效性，并提高学生对清洁技术职业的兴趣和动力。该项目将作为教育和行业合作的技术增强模型，可转移到其他社区和州。

项目成果

Profiling self-regulation behaviors in STEM learning of engineering design

工程设计 STEM 学习中自我调节行为的剖析

• DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103669
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Computers & Education
• 影响因子: 12
• 作者: Zheng, Juan;Xing, Wanli;Zhu, Gaoxia;Chen, Guanhua;Zhao, Henglv;Xie, Charles
• 通讯作者: Xie, Charles