BPC-DP: DEPICT - Engaging a Diverse Student Population in Computational Thinking through Creative Writing and Performances

BPC-DP：DEPICT - 通过创意写作和表演让多元化的学生群体参与计算思维

• 批准号: 2137581
• 负责人: Enrico Pontelli
• 金额: $ 29.97万
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2137581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BPC; DP; DEPICT; Engaging; Diverse

Often youth have a difficult time connecting the work of computer science with helping society, a goal that many report as very important for their career choices. This project aims to broaden the appeal of computing to students who may not consider themselves as belonging in a technical field by infusing computer science concepts into language and arts-dominant high school courses. By highlighting the ways in which learning computing is like learning a new language or translating between technical and more informal speech, the project team will align the skill sets needed to those of the bilingual population of two southern New Mexico high schools. The project will build a sequence of opportunities to engage students in computing experiences both in and out of school, with a focus on recruiting women and Hispanic students. At the same time, the project will provide professional development opportunities for teachers to better understand how to leverage computing concepts and skills to teach creative subjects. DEPICT (Discover Computational Thinking through Creative Writing) investigates a novel intervention to broaden participation to computing of women and Hispanic high school students. The novelty of DEPICT lies in two aspects. First, DEPICT builds on an area that has not been deeply exploited in the past, i.e., the combination of creative writing and production of movies/plays. The appeal of this area comes from its popularity among students, especially women and Hispanic, and the high level of self-efficacy demonstrated by students in the corresponding courses. The second novelty comes from the use of this creative domain as a target for the infusion of CT - i.e., we use CT as a methodology to teach the creative domain, contending that relevant concepts of CT are already present in the domain, and they simply need to be extrapolated. This allows us to progressively build CT competency through the learning of the creative domain, leveraging the students' self-efficacy in the creative domain to build self-efficacy in CT. DEPICT creates a pipeline to prepare students for the AP CS Principles test and offers them a "preparation edge" over other students entering more formal CS courses. High school teachers are part of DEPICT and they will be provided with professional development and in-class help to gain ownership of the new course materials - enabling a transformative impact that will sustain and grow over time. DEPICT operates in two diverse high schools (a traditional rural school and a modern urban school) in southern New Mexico.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.

年轻人通常很难将计算机科学工作与帮助社会联系起来，许多人认为这一目标对他们的职业选择非常重要。该项目旨在通过将计算机科学概念融入到以语言和艺术为主的高中课程中，扩大计算机对那些可能不属于技术领域的学生的吸引力。通过强调学习计算就像学习一门新语言或在技术性语言和更非正式的语言之间进行翻译一样，项目团队将调整新墨西哥州南部两所高中双语人口所需的技能。该项目将创造一系列机会，让学生在校内和校外参与计算机体验，重点是招收女性和西班牙裔学生。同时，该项目将为教师提供专业发展机会，让他们更好地了解如何利用计算概念和技能来教授创意科目。 DEPICT（通过创意写作发现计算思维）研究了一种新颖的干预措施，以扩大女性和西班牙裔高中生对计算的参与。 DEPICT的新颖之处在于两个方面。首先，DEPICT建立在一个过去没有被深入开发的领域，即创意写作和电影/戏剧制作的结合。该领域的吸引力来自于其在学生尤其是女性和西班牙裔学生中的受欢迎程度，以及学生在相应课程中表现出的高水平自我效能感。第二个新颖之处来自于使用这个创意领域作为 CT 注入的目标——也就是说，我们使用 CT 作为教授创意领域的方法论，认为 CT 的相关概念已经存在于该领域中，并且它们只是需要进行推断。这使我们能够通过创意领域的学习逐步建立 CT 能力，利用学生在创意领域的自我效能来建立 CT 中的自我效能。 DEPICT 创建了一个渠道来帮助学生准备 AP CS 原理测试，并为他们提供比其他进入更正式的 CS 课程的学生更高的“准备优势”。高中教师是 DEPICT 的一部分，他们将获得专业发展和课堂帮助，以获得新课程材料的所有权，从而产生随着时间的推移而持续和增长的变革性影响。 DEPICT 在新墨西哥州南部的两所不同的高中（一所传统农村学校和一所现代城市学校）开展业务。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。