PFI:AIR - TT: Dibble: A Cost-Effective Tool for Broadening Participation in STEM Thinking

PFI:AIR - TT：Dibble：扩大 STEM 思维参与的经济有效的工具

• 批准号: 1701214
• 负责人: Jeanne Century
• 金额: $ 19.75万
• 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: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-15 至 2020-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1701214&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; AIR; TT; Dibble; Cost

This PFI: AIR Technology Translation project focuses on translating knowledge about science learning and innovative technologies into a tool for supporting scientific literacy growth in youth. The project will create "Dibble," an innovative learning platform and mobile app that engages learners in the processes of scientific investigation (e.g., posing questions, exploring resources, collecting evidence to address questions, and making conclusions based on evidence). Dibble is grounded in the philosophy that scientific thinking, problem solving, and use of evidence are critical for our country's economic success and for our citizens to live healthy, participatory, and successful lives. Dibble will engage users in the scientific process at multiple entry points, allowing participation through asking questions, collecting data, visualizing data, interpreting data, and soliciting ideas and feedback from peers, educators, and content experts. This project will take on key challenges related to sustaining user engagement; effectively supporting learners' creation and interpretation of shared data products; and identifying and creating intuitive and usable design features in learning environments. Dibble will seek the right balance between user-directed navigation- to ensure users are motivated and confident in their activity- and built-in features to guide and support engagement to support Dibble's underlying purpose of participation in scientific practices. As part of this development process, graduate students who are participating in the myCHOICE program at the University of Chicago will have opportunities to learn about and gain experience in the science education activities of this project, in order to learn about education as an alternative career to academic research. The key technical partner for this project is ForAll Systems, a Chicago-based educational software development company. The primary educational partner is the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum that hosts the educational programs for teens where Dibble will first be tested.

PFI：空气技术翻译项目的重点是将有关科学学习和创新技术的知识转化为支持青年科学素养增长的工具。该项目将创建“ Dibble”，这是一个创新的学习平台和移动应用程序，它吸引了学习者参与科学研究的过程（例如，提出问题，探索资源，收集证据以解决问题并根据证据得出结论）。 Dibble的基础是，科学思维，解决问题和证据的使用对我国的经济成功至关重要，对我们的公民过着健康，参与性和成功的生活至关重要。 Dibble将在多个入口处吸引用户参与科学过程，从而通过提出问题，收集数据，可视化数据，解释数据以及从同龄人，教育工作者和内容专家征求思想和反馈来参与。该项目将面临与维持用户参与有关的关键挑战；有效地支持学习者对共享数据产品的创建和解释；并在学习环境中识别和创建直观可用的设计功能。 Dibble将在用户指导的导航之间寻求适当的平衡 - 以确保用户对他们的活动和内置功能充满动力和自信，以指导和支持参与度，以支持Dibble参与科学实践的基本目的。作为此开发过程的一部分，参加芝加哥大学Mychoice计划的研究生将有机会学习和获得该项目的科学教育活动的经验，以便学习教育是学术研究的替代职业。该项目的主要技术合作伙伴是Forall Systems，这是一家位于芝加哥的教育软件开发公司。主要的教育伙伴是佩吉Notebaert自然博物馆，该博物馆举办了青少年的教育计划，首先要进行苦苦挣扎。