I-Corps: The Planetary Laboratory: A networked platform for engaging K-12 STEM learning

I-Corps：行星实验室：用于参与 K-12 STEM 学习的网络平台

• 批准号: 1632492
• 负责人: Stacy Rosenbaum
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Planetary; Laboratory; networked; platform

This Innovation Corps (I-Corps) project focuses on an educational platform that can be used to produce materials for STEM education.The Planetary Laboratory is a desktop/mobile website that helps research labs and informal learning institutions like museums and zoos deliver engaging education programs to large audiences. Such organizations typically have educational mandates and special educational value because they connect students directly to cutting edge STEM research and innovations. However, these organizations often have limited reach because curriculum distribution is a secondary priority. The curricula and resources they produce are "siloed" on individual websites and may not reach a broad audience. The Planetary Laboratory is a cost effective way for organizations to produce and distribute content that is aligned with national education standards for formal instruction and amenable to out of school learning. This will help organizations satisfy their 'broader impacts' goals, improve their ability to secure funding, and expose more students to STEM education materials that may be more effective than traditional text book based lessons.The Planetary Laboratory will operate an online learning management system (LMS) that curates and hosts educational content from multiple organizations. The LMS will present this content in a way that aligns with national education standards and makes it easy for teachers and students (K12 in particular) to use. Each learning challenge (a set of multimedia materials that will guide the student through content on a specific topic) will connect users with a network of organizations that produce relevant curriculum. By linking related curricula and projects across organizations, this team will build larger networks of students/teachers and learning materials, which improves the reach of each individual organization. Content can be organized to cover different types of standards (e.g., Next Generation Science Standards, Common Core) across topic areas and grades. The Planetary Laboratory will use organizations' content to create better STEM education programs for students. It will connect STEM learning with other educational goals, particularly literacy and social and emotional learning. The barriers that schools put between different types of learning (e.g., math class teaches math; reading class teaches literacy) do not exist in the real world. The Planetary Laboratory will help teachers break down these barriers and give students a better sense of how improving their literacy, or knowing how to manage their peer relationships, is relevant to scientific enquiry and STEM careers. It will also help teach more science at earlier ages - science education is often not emphasized until middle school even though it is relevant and teachable far sooner.

该创新团（I-Corps）项目着重于一个教育平台，该平台可用于生产STEM教育的材料。行星实验室是一个台式/移动网站，可帮助研究实验室和非正式学习机构（例如博物馆和动物园（例如博物馆）和周围为大型受众提供吸引人的教育计划。这些组织通常具有教育任务和特殊教育价值，因为它们将学生直接与尖端的STEM研究和创新联系起来。但是，这些组织通常有限覆盖范围，因为课程分配是次要优先事项。他们生产的课程和资源在单个网站上被“孤立”，可能不会吸引广泛的受众。行星实验室是组织生产和分发与国家教育标准相一致的成本有效方式，并可以在学校学习中进行。这将有助于组织满足其“更广泛的影响”目标，提高其获得资金的能力，并使更多的学生了解比基于传统书籍的课程更有效的教育材料。行星实验室将运行一个在线学习管理系统（LMS），该系统（LMS）策划并从多个组织中托管教育内容。 LMS将以与国家教育标准保持一致的方式介绍此内容，并使教师和学生（特别是K12）轻松使用。每个学习挑战（一组将指导学生了解特定主题内容的多媒体材料）将与产生相关课程的组织网络联系起来。通过将相关的课程和各个组织的项目联系起来，该团队将建立较大的学生/老师和学习材料网络，从而改善每个组织的影响力。可以组织内容以涵盖主题领域和等级的不同类型的标准（例如，下一代科学标准，共同核心）。 行星实验室将使用组织的内容为学生创建更好的STEM教育计划。它将将STEM学习与其他教育目标，尤其是识字以及社会和情感学习联系起来。学校在不同类型的学习之间（例如，数学课教学；阅读课程教学扫盲）所面临的障碍在现实世界中不存在。行星实验室将帮助教师打破这些障碍，并更好地了解如何提高识字能力或了解如何管理同伴关系，这与科学的探究和STEM职业有关。这也将有助于在早期教授更多的科学教学 - 即使中学很快，科学教育通常才能强调直到中学。