Conference: Science Museum Futures

会议：科学博物馆的未来

• 批准号: 2041474
• 负责人: John Falk
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Institute for Learning Innovation
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2041474&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Science; Museum; Futures

Upon entering the STEM learning landscape, science museums enjoyed marked growth in public utilization and impact. However, since the turn of the century, reductions in visitor numbers, aging infrastructures and pedagogical approaches have made many in the sector question how these institutions might best evolve to stay relevant in a changing world. Although there have been numerous discussions around re-thinking practices and even some movement towards actualizing much of this rhetoric, overall, most institutions have largely continued business as usual. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced additional challenges and created an important inflection point for science museums, a moment when all can and should seriously address not just the immediate future, but also the longer-term future of the next decade and beyond. This convening will meet this opportunity by virtually bringing together 50-60 diverse (expertise and role, background, demographics, geography) thoughtful STEM learning professionals to collaboratively re-imagine the future of the science museum community, in particular the particularly vulnerable small to medium size science museum sector. Participants will be asked to think strategically (rather than just tactically) about how science museums in the coming decade(s) can fulfill their STEM learning missions while truly serving the needs of all segments of their communities; particularly those who have been historically under-represented. The project will involve participants in an 8-step process involving pre-meeting readings, online discussions, large and small-group meetings, written and online dissemination efforts; with opportunities for local and national input throughout. The Science Museum Futures project represents an opportunity for the science museum community to seriously and collectively address its future; not just the very short-term future, but the longer-term future of the next decade and beyond. To remain an important part of the STEM learning landscape, the future demands that science museums re-think how they fulfill their STEM education roles in four key areas: 1) Understanding – facilitating STEM learning so all users can more clearly understand how an understanding of science and technology supports both a healthier and richer life; 2) Future Actions – supporting evidence-based solutions to challenges that currently face every community; 3) Social Cohesion – making it possible for all sectors of society to experience STEM learning as a natural an integral part of their family, group and community’s heritage and life experience; and 4) Physical Security – ensuring that all users have opportunities to gather (physically or virtually), interact, explore and learn STEM within a safe, healthy, anxiety-free and restorative environment. Going forward, science museums will need to re-envision how all four of areas can be addressed, not just individually, but collectively as core, interdependent goals. To ensure broad applicability and inclusion, diverse community voices and responses will be integrated throughout the process through a series of online focus groups and conversations with both members of the science museum community and the wider public science museums seek to serve. The Science Museum Futures project will create an initial Science Museums Futures Action Plan that will provide science museum practitioner’s with new approaches, processes and tools designed to enhance the ways they support STEM learning. All materials will be both vetted and disseminated with the aid of project partners through on-line webinars, focus groups, blog posts on social media such as LinkedIn and Facebook, conference presentations and organizational newsletters. This project seeks to help initiate an on-going effort to support science museums, allowing them to rethink and reshape their STEM learning offerings in ways that ensure that they are increasingly relevant and central to the lives of ALL members of their communities. This project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environments. One of AISL’s five priority goals is to invest in projects that seek to build infrastructure and/or capacity in the field, including efforts supporting collaborations, connections, and professional networks within and across sectors of informal STEM education. This project is also supported by the Education and Human Resources directorate's Accelerating Discovery in Education efforts to enable research in fundamental topics addressing persistent issues in the learning and teaching of STEM content as well as frontier topics that envision STEM learning environments of the future, push the boundaries of the use of technology in learning, and examine how learning will change because of advances in technology and developments in Industries of the Future.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.

进入STEM学习景观后，科学博物馆在公共利用和影响方面享有明显的增长。但是，自世纪之交以来，访客人数的减少，老化的基础设施和教学方法使许多领域中的许多机构都质疑这些机构如何最好地发展在不断变化的世界中。尽管关于重新思考的做法，甚至在实现这种言论的大部分方面进行了许多讨论，但总的来说，大多数机构在很大程度上像往常一样持续了业务。意思是，同时，共同19岁的大流行引入了其他挑战，并为科学博物馆创造了一个重​​要的影响点，这是所有人都可以而且应该认真解决未来的时间，而且还应解决未来的长期未来。这次召集将通过实际上将50-60名潜水员（专业知识，背景，人口统计，地理）汇集在一起​​，以实现这一机会来实现这一机会。将要求颗粒物在战略性上（而不是战术上）思考，以了解未来十年的科学博物馆如何完成他们的STEM学习任务，同时真正满足其社区各个细分市场的需求；特别是那些历史上人数不足的人。该项目将涉及参与者进行8步流程，包括预上会议阅读，在线讨论，大型小组会议，书面和在线传播工作；整个地方都有本地和国家投入的机会。科学博物馆期货项目为科学博物馆社区提供了一个认真并共同解决其未来的机会。不仅是短期的未来，而且是未来十年及以后的长期未来。为了保持STEM学习景观的重要组成部分，未来要求科学博物馆重新思考他们如何在四个关键领域中履行其STEM教育角色：1）理解 - 支持STEM学习，以便所有用户可以更清楚地了解对科学和技术的理解如何支持更健康和更​​丰富的生活； 2）未来的行动 - 支持目前面临每个社区的挑战的基于证据的解决方案； 3）社会凝聚力 - 使社会所有部门都有可能体验STEM学习，这是他们家庭，团体和社区的遗产和生活经验的组成部分； 4）身体安全 - 确保所有用户都有机会在安全，健康，无焦虑和恢复的环境中收集（身体或虚拟），互动，探索和学习STEM。展望未来，科学博物馆将需要重新探讨如何不仅单独解决所有四个领域，而且可以集体作为核心，相互依存的目标。为了确保广泛的适用性和包容性，将通过一系列在线焦点小组和与科学博物馆社区和更广泛的公共科学博物馆寻求服务的一系列在线焦点小组以及对话，在整个过程中整合潜水员的声音和回应。科学博物馆期货项目将创建一个初始的科学博物馆期货行动计划，该计划将为科学博物馆从业人员提供新的方法，过程和工具，旨在增强他们支持STEM学习的方式。所有材料都将在项目合作伙伴的帮助下，通过在线网络研讨会，焦点小组，LinkedIn和Facebook等社交媒体，会议演讲和组织通讯上的博客文章进行审查和传播。该项目旨在帮助发起一项持续的努力来支持科学博物馆，使他们能够以确保他们对所有社区成员的生活越来越相关和核心的方式重新考虑和重塑其STEM学习产品。该项目由非正式的STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进对非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。 AISL的五个优先目标之一是投资于寻求在该领域建立基础设施和/或能力的项目，包括支持非正式STEM教育领域内外的合作，联系和专业网络的努力。该项目还得到了教育和人力资源局在教育工作中的加速发现的加速性，以研究基本主题，以解决STEM内容学习和教学中持续问题的持续问题，以及边界的主题，即环境STEM STEM学习环境未来的学习环境，在学习方面的发展以及研究如何在技术中发展的技术和统计，因为在技术和发展方面的进步，这是在技术和发展中的发展。使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响标准，认为通过评估被认为是宝贵的支持。