Equitable Computer Science for All Learning Ecosystems: Developing Underserved Students' Computational Making Literacies Through Community-Embedded Out of School Time Programming

所有学习生态系统的公平计算机科学：通过社区嵌入的校外时间编程培养服务不足的学生的计算能力

• 批准号: 1838916
• 负责人: Nichole Pinkard
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1838916&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equitable; Computer; Science; Learning; Ecosystems

At its core, the National Science Foundation's CSforAll initiative has the goal of creating theinfrastructure, pathways, and incentives that develop ecosystems for supporting and motivating all youthto become computationally literate and pursue computer science-related degrees and careers. Thisproposal makes a case for the extension of the CSforAll infrastructure to include the integration of out-of-school time (OST) learning projects into existing CSforAll funded grants by asking two questions: Howcan we foster a community learning environment that recognizes, supports, and promotes computationalliteracies as a desirable and accessible form of social capital by mentors, youth, and families? And howdo these community-level connections impact youth computational making learning opportunities,participation, social networks, knowledge, and understanding? In Evanston, a partnership betweenNorthwestern University, the district, and the Evanston YMCA will work together to understand and answer thesequestions by designing and operating a community-based computational making OST hub that providesthe learning activities and peer community needed to create an inviting and relevant environment forstudents, caring adults, and educators to reorient their perception towards computer science-relatedcareers as desirable and achievable for youth in the community.This proposal seeks to take advantage of a unique opportunity - the launch of a 1:1 middle grades tabletinitiative in a racially and socioeconomically diverse community actively engaged in addressing theirexpanding achievement gap - to implement a community-based computational making OST hub andreimagine how a community-embedded approach to OST designed to support youth and caring adults(parents and mentors) can ignite youths' computational making participation. Specifically, this proposalseeks to create a learning community that uses the computational thinking guided design process tomotivate and support students in the systemic creation of interactive objects that require theintegration of coding, digital fabrication, and visual design literacies to produce aesthetically powerfuland socially conscious solutions to student and community defined design challenges.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国国家科学基金会的“CSforAll”计划的核心目标是创建基础设施、途径和激励措施，以开发生态系统，支持和激励所有年轻人具备计算能力并攻读计算机科学相关学位和职业。该提案提出了扩展 CSforAll 基础设施的案例，将校外时间 (OST) 学习项目整合到现有的 CSforAll 资助的赠款中，提出了两个问题：我们如何才能营造一个认可、支持和支持的社区学习环境？促进计算素养成为导师、青年和家庭理想且易于获得的社会资本形式？这些社区层面的联系如何影响青年计算制造的学习机会、参与、社交网络、知识和理解？在埃文斯顿，西北大学、学区和埃文斯顿基督教青年会之间的合作伙伴关系将共同努力，通过设计和运营一个基于社区的计算制作 OST 中心来理解和回答这些问题，该中心提供创建一个有吸引力的相关环境所需的学习活动和同伴社区让学生、有爱心的成年人和教育工作者重新调整他们对计算机科学相关职业的看法，认为计算机科学相关的职业对于社区中的年轻人来说是理想的和可以实现的。该提案旨在利用一个独特的机会——启动一个在种族和社会经济多元化的社区中，1:1 中年级平板电脑倡议积极参与解决他们不断扩大的成绩差距 - 实施基于社区的计算制作 OST 中心，并重新构想如何采用社区嵌入的 OST 方法来支持青少年和有爱心的成年人（父母和父母）导师）可以激发年轻人的计算参与。具体来说，该提案旨在创建一个学习社区，使用计算思维引导的设计过程来激励和支持学生系统地创建交互式对象，这些对象需要集成编码、数字制造和视觉设计素养，为学生提供具有美学功能和社会意识的解决方案该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。