SBIR Phase I: A platform for cross-cultural collaborative learning by 6th-12th graders based on synchronous watching of international films from different locations

SBIR第一期：6-12年级学生基于不同地点同步观看国际电影的跨文化协作学习平台

• 批准号: 2321956
• 负责人: Catherine Kavanaugh
• 金额: $ 27.4万
• 依托单位: SCREEN360.TV, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2321956&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; platform; cross; cultural

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in exposing students to cultures other than their own to foster empathy, not only for others, but to better understand themselves and their own culture. The 21st century workforce requires multilingual, curious, collaborative, empathetic learners. Yet, immersive opportunities to exercise empathy cross-culturally are difficult to access and empathy requires practice. Geographic and cultural knowledge from travel abroad programs is proven to increase empathy, but such experiences serve relatively few students. Schools need a cost-effective and safe way of equitably delivering immersive cross-cultural engagement to meet increasingly global demands. This project intends to present the international film festival as a rich learning atmosphere, replicable at scale to serve learners well beyond the traditional audience diversity and number. The immersive experience will be delivered to respond to learning needs in the classrooms, after-school programs, hospitals, and refugee centers. The films will be expertly curated, globally streamed, co-viewed across time zones, and enhanced with moderated curriculum. This project replicates and magnifies aspects of the film festival model which correspond to social impact business innovation, specifically, empathy. Multiple identified paths to empathy in each session are activated and reproduced through discussion, analysis, gamification and assessment. This series of assessments engages the learner to better understand how they learn, while reinforcing the memory of learning of a culture outside of their own as integral to their developing worldview. The project also establishes a foundation for both media and cultural literacy. The platform will activate non-generative artificial intelligence (AI) in service of matching profiles, scheduling, automation, assessment tabulation and reporting, and archiving. The technology will employ generative AI with AR (augmented reality) in service of translation in post-film discussion as well as location-based information to enable additional points of empathy for discussion. With respect to assessments, AI will be used to provide feedback to participants, impacting learning episode memory. The assessments will also serve in the facilitation of qualitative assessments so that participants receive timely reports, illuminating similarities and differences.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.

这个小企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响在于让学生接触自己以外的文化，以培养同理心，不仅是对他人的同理心，而且是为了更好地了解自己和自己的文化。 21 世纪的劳动力需要多语言、好奇、协作、富有同理心的学习者。然而，跨文化锻炼同理心的沉浸式机会很难获得，同理心需要练习。事实证明，出国旅行项目中的地理和文化知识可以增强同理心，但这种经历服务于相对较少的学生。学校需要一种经济高效且安全的方式来公平地提供沉浸式跨文化参与，以满足日益增长的全球需求。该项目旨在将国际电影节呈现为丰富的学习氛围，可大规模复制，为学习者提供远远超出传统观众多样性和数量的服务。将提供沉浸式体验，以满足教室、课外项目、医院和难民中心的学习需求。 这些电影将经过专业策划、全球流媒体、跨时区共同观看，并通过经过审核的课程进行强化。该项目复制并放大了电影节模式中与社会影响力商业创新相对应的各个方面，特别是同理心。通过讨论、分析、游戏化和评估，在每个会话中激活和再现多个已确定的同理心路径。这一系列的评估让学习者更好地理解他们的学习方式，同时强化对学习之外的文化的记忆，将其作为他们不断发展的世界观的一部分。 该项目还为媒体和文化素养奠定了基础。该平台将激活非生成式人工智能（AI），以提供匹配配置文件、调度、自动化、评估列表和报告以及存档等服务。该技术将采用生成式人工智能和 AR（增强现实）技术，为电影后讨论中的翻译提供服务，并利用基于位置的信息，为讨论提供额外的同理心。 在评估方面，人工智能将用于向参与者提供反馈，影响学习事件记忆。 这些评估还将促进定性评估，以便参与者及时收到报告，阐明相似性和差异。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。