SBIR Phase I: A Co-creation, Cross-curricular, Standard Aligned Computer Science, Engineering, and Cybersecurity Education Technology Platform

SBIR 第一阶段：共同创造、跨课程、标准一致的计算机科学、工程和网络安全教育技术平台

• 批准号: 1648069
• 负责人: Rahul Thawal
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Codecraft Works, LLC
• 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: 2016-12-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1648069&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Co; creation; Cross

This SBIR Phase I project provides student access to computer science curriculum and computational thinking skills to better prepare for college and the workforce. Unfortunately, no organized computer science curriculum is offered in majority of schools in the United States and only 1 out of 4 public high schools in the United States offer even one computer science class. Educators and administrators need new platforms of community and technical support to overcome these modern challenges and accomplish these critical goals. This project is aimed at the design and development of a web-based software platform to enable educators to confidently teach computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity education in classrooms and community centers. The resulting software platform would enable rapid growth of after-school clubs, camps, evening classes, in-school field trips, workshops, and educational gaming. This effort further democratizes the teaching of computer science and engineering concepts, thus addressing the talent gap that is leaving the United States behind in cybersecurity and in the world economy. This project has significant revenue and growth potential as it can be of service to approximately 3 million public school teachers and 50.1 million students who attended public elementary and secondary schools in 2015.This project will design and develop a web-based software platform to easily connect, attract, and foster the exchange, co-creation, and delivery of cross-curricular, educational computing literacy resources aligned with national and state educational standards. Analytics and metrics will be applied and developed to gain insight into the support needed for effective instruction. Instructors will be able to develop rich, dynamic, and engaging content, allowing secondary and elementary students to actively participate with the material and to assess their understanding. Students using the platform will also get access to expert mentors for debugging help, code review, and to ask questions. Educators will able to communicate best practices to ensure continuous access to high quality computer literacy resources. As a result, the platform provides superior pedagogy for secondary and elementary school students learning computer science, engineering, and cybersecurity. An initial alpha launch, a pilot study and analytical data gathering will be conducted throughout Phase 1 to study the efficacy of the proposed solution. The goal of this research is to verify the system features, the ease of use and to understand if Phase 1 activities result in a prototype that offers technical feasibility to solve the problem.

这个SBIR I阶段项目为学生提供了计算机科学课程和计算思维技能的访问，以更好地为大学和劳动力做准备。不幸的是，美国的大多数学校都没有提供有组织的计算机科学课程，在美国，只有4所公立高中只提供了一门计算机科学课。 教育者和管理人员需要新的社区和技术支持平台，以克服这些现代挑战并实现这些关键目标。该项目旨在设计和开发基于Web的软件平台，以使教育工作者能够在课堂和社区中心自信地教授计算机科学，工程和网络安全教育。由此产生的软件平台将使课后俱乐部，营地，晚间课程，课内实地考察，讲习班和教育游戏的快速增长。这项努力进一步使计算机科学和工程概念的教学民主化，从而解决了使美国在网络安全和世界经济中落后的人才差距。该项目具有巨大的收入和增长潜力，因为它可以为大约300万公立学校教师和5001万学生提供服务，他们在2015年就读于公立小学和中学。该项目将设计和开发一个基于Web的软件平台，以轻松连接，吸引和促进交流，共同创建和交付跨课程，教育计算机知识与国家教育和国家教育和国家教育和国家教育和国家教育销售的交流。分析和指标将被应用和开发，以深入了解有效教学所需的支持。讲师将能够发展丰富，动态和引人入胜的内容，使中学和小学生能够积极参与材料并评估他们的理解。使用该平台的学生还将访问专家导师以进行调试帮助，代码审查和提出问题。教育工作者将能够传达最佳实践，以确保连续获得高质量的计算机识字资源。结果，该平台为中学和小学生学习计算机科学，工程和网络安全提供了卓越的教学法。 最初的Alpha发射，试点研究和分析数据收集将在整个阶段1进行研究，以研究所提出的解决方案的功效。这项研究的目的是验证系统功能，易用性，并了解第一阶段活动是否导致原型，该原型提供了解决问题的技术可行性。