Workshop on the Substance of STEM Education: Addressing the Gap Between Foundational, Meta, and Humanistic Knowledge

STEM 教育实质研讨会：解决基础知识、元知识和人文知识之间的差距

• 批准号: 1935479
• 负责人: Ariel Anbar
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Substance; STEM; Education; Addressing

With support from the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources (IUSE: EHR), this project aims to serve the national interest by developing a vision for STEM education that will prepare students for emerging technical and societal challenges. This project will convene discussions to explore current and future contexts for STEM education. Building off these discussions, the project will envision models for future STEM education. The project will consider STEM education from a perspective that integrates foundational knowledge (to know), meta-knowledge (to act), and humanistic knowledge (to value). The investigators expect that this perspective will provide better alignment of STEM education with technical and societal challenges than a knowledge-centric education. The project focuses on two gaps in current STEM education models. The first is the gap between the need for students to learn STEM concepts and the need for them to develop the creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills needed for ethical decision-making and action. The second gap occurs because STEM courses and degree programs continue to reside within traditional STEM disciplinary boundaries, even as our most pressing problems require interdisciplinary work. The project's goal is to collaboratively establish a vision for the future of STEM education and develop a well-articulated framework that describes this future. This project will build a virtual community of practice that will meet in person to articulate a framework for the future of STEM education with potential to achieve the project vision. The pre-workshop activities will consist of a series of open internet-based discussions featuring invited expert keynotes. The objective of the discussion includes: (1) to build a community of practice; (2) to acquaint participants with the motivation, context, and key concepts of the workshop; and (3) to envision and converge on the curricular types, learner personas, and agenda for the workshop. Workshop participants will be selected from this community of practice, based on their expertise, knowledge, engagement, and leadership in the field. At the two-day, studio-format workshop, approximately 50 expert participants will engage in an iterative set of facilitated design-based exercises to develop prototype curricula. Following the workshop, the developed curricula will be openly available to the wider community of practice, with the aim of fostering an emergent network that will continue to collaboratively develop and iterate content and resources. If successful, the framework, curricula, and community of practice developed through this project has the potential to provide a pathway for evolving undergraduate STEM education to better meet rapidly emerging economic, environmental, and societal challenges.The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. This project is within the Engaged Student Learning track, which supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.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.

在NSF改善本科STEM教育计划的支持下：教育和人力资源（IUSE：EHR），该项目旨在通过建立对STEM教育的愿景来为新兴的技术和社会挑战做好准备，以服务于国家利益。该项目将召集讨论，以探索当前和未来的STEM教育环境。 在这些讨论中，该项目将设想未来的STEM教育模型。该项目将从一个整合基础知识（了解），元知识（行动）和人文知识（值得）的角度来考虑STEM教育。 调查人员预计，这种观点将比以知识为中心的教育更好地使STEM教育与技术和社会挑战更好。该项目着重于当前STEM教育模型中的两个差距。首先是学生学习STEM概念的需求与他们发展创造力，批判性思维和解决问题的能力所需的道德决策和行动所需的解决问题的技能之间的差距。第二个差距之所以发生，是因为STEM课程和学位课程继续存在于传统的STEM学科界限内，即使我们最紧迫的问题需要跨学科的工作。该项目的目标是协作为STEM教育的未来建立愿景，并开发一个描述这一未来的精心定义的框架。 该项目将建立一个虚拟的实践社区，该社区将亲自见面，以阐明具有实现项目愿景的STEM教育未来的框架。工作室前活动将包括一系列以邀请专家为主题为主题的开放式互联网讨论。讨论的目的包括：（1）建立实践社区； （2）将参与者熟悉研讨会的动机，背景和关键概念； （3）为研讨会的课程类型，学习者角色和议程汇总。研讨会参与者将根据该领域的专业知识，知识，参与和领导才能从这个实践社区中选出。在为期两天的工作室 - 格式研讨会上，大约50名专家参与者将进行一套迭代的基于设计的基于设计的练习，以开发原型课程。在研讨会之后，开发的课程将公开为更广泛的实践社区公开，以促进新兴网络，该网络将继续开发和迭代内容和资源。如果成功，则通过该项目开发的框架，课程和实践社区将有可能为发展本科STEM教育的发展提供途径，以更好地满足经济，环境和社会挑战的迅速发展。该项目属于参与的学生学习轨道，该轨道支持了有前途的实践和工具的创建，探索和实施。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估来支持的。