I-Corps L: Pivot Interactives

I-Corps L：Pivot Interactives

• 批准号: 1644458
• 负责人: Matthew Vonk
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-River Falls
• 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: 2016-07-15 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1644458&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Pivot; Interactives

The traditional opportunity for students to hone their science skills is in the laboratory. Unfortunately many lab activities are formulaic and don't actually prepare students for the open-ended investigative endeavors that we typically associate with the practice of science. Perhaps an even larger limitation of the traditional laboratory is that student access to the physical apparatus is often restricted to brief lab periods. That means that students' learning of critical science skills is also restricted. Another way for students to observe phenomena, make measurements and collect and analyze data is using Direct Measurement Videos (DMVs). DMVs are short high-quality videos that show an interesting event. Students are able to analyze the DMV using provided online tools (rulers, protractors, stopwatches, et cetera). Some of the DMVs are published as single videos, but others are published as an interconnected web or matrix of videos that the user can navigate using an integrated console. This gives the user a sense that they are actually controlling what happens in the video. This innovative breakthrough creates a complex multidimensional environment students can authentically explore, allowing them to go through the process of real investigative science while benefiting from the advantages that an online resource provides. This project will benefit society because it provides science students a way to engage in the authentic practice of science: carefully observing an interesting real-world event, coming up with a scientific question about the event, designing an experiment to answer that question, collecting and analyzing data, and reaching a conclusion. The classroom-ready activities produced by this project will bring best-practices pedagogy to science students in all environments, including large and underfunded classrooms, flipped and online courses, home schools, and institutions with inexperienced or time-crunched instructors. This project has excellent prospects for significantly advancing knowledge for the following reasons: 1) it solves an important problem for teachers, that is, how to practically teach the science process skills that are such critical keys for robust student learning; 2) the approach has been proven effective; 3) the team is very well qualified for this endeavor; and 4) the project has a track record of success.

学生磨练科学技能的传统机会是在实验室中。不幸的是，许多实验室活动都是公式化的，实际上并没有为我们通常与科学实践联系在一起的开放式调查工作做好准备。传统实验室的一个更大的限制可能是学生进入物理设备通常仅限于简短的实验室期。这意味着学生对批判科学技能的学习也受到限制。学生观察现象，进行测量并收集和分析数据的另一种方法是使用直接测量视频（DMV）。 DMV是简短的高质量视频，显示了一个有趣的事件。学生能够使用提供的在线工具（标尺，量角，秒表等）分析DMV。一些DMV以单个视频的形式发布，但其他DMV则以互连网络或视频矩阵的形式发布，用户可以使用集成控制台导航。这使用户有一种感觉，他们实际上正在控制视频中发生的事情。这种创新的突破创造了学生可以真实地探索的复杂多维环境，使他们能够经历真正的调查科学过程，同时受益于在线资源提供的优势。该项目将使社会受益，因为它为科学学生提供了一种从事真正的科学实践的方式：仔细观察一个有趣的现实世界事件，提出了有关该事件的科学问题，设计了一个实验来回答该问题，收集和分析数据并得出结论。该项目制作的课堂就绪活动将为所有环境中的科学学生带来最佳实践教学法，包括大型和资金不足的教室，翻转和在线课程，家庭学校和机构，以及经验不足或经验丰富的教练。由于以下原因，该项目具有很大的前景，可大大提高知识：1）它解决了教师的重要问题，也就是说，如何实际教授科学过程技能，这是对强大学生学习的关键关键； 2）该方法已被证明有效； 3）团队非常有资格参加这项工作； 4）该项目具有成功的记录。