PIs: Jon Reinhardt, Susan Penfield University of Arizona Award Details This project lays the academic foundations for collaborations between researchers and indigenous American Indian community-based language practitioners for the purpose of developing a socio-technical means of, in parallel, preserving ancient indigenous languages and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and helping indigenous youth learn traditional languages and […]
Tag Archives: Communities for learning
EXP: Collaborative Research: WeatherBlur
PIs: Ruth Kermish-Allen, Heather Deese, Anne Bardaglio, Karen Peterman Island Institute Award Details) The PIs are studying and refining use of infrastructure support for an online learning community that engages local students, teachers, fishermen, and scientists in rural communities in a non-hierarchical learning environment. The team is testing the efficacy of and refining an online […]
EXP: Collaborative Research: Engaging Interdisciplinary Students in Innovation Education through Crowd-based Technology
Steven Dow, Carnegie-Mellon University (Award Details) Elizabeth Gerber, Northwestern University (Award Details) This project team is exploring how crowd-based technology can support innovation education through feedback from potential customers and users, specifically looking at how the new forms of authentic feedback can be put to good use to support learning better to design, solve problems, […]
EXP: Fostering Collective Progress in Online Discourse for Sustained Knowledge Building
PIs: Jianwei Zhang, Mei-Hwa Chen, Janette Pelletier, Allan Lockwood SUNY at Albany Award Details The PIs are designing, developing, and testing a software tool, called Idea Threads Mapper (ITM) that helps young learners (grades 4 and 5) sustain inquiry and discussion more regularly in their classrooms. The tool allows them to visualize the ways the […]
DIP: Sustaining Ecological Communities Through Citizen Science and Online Collaboration
PIs: Rebecca Jordan, Gregory Newman, Steven Gray, Cindy Hmelo-Silver, Alycia Crall Rutgers University New Brunswick Award Details This project team is investigating the interaction among citizen scientists working both with each other and with professionals, along several dimensions. The cyberlearning environment in which these interactions takes place is built on an existing cyberinfrastructure, the International […]
EXP: Collaborative Infographics for Science Literacy (CISL)
PI: Joseph Polman University of Colorado at Boulder Award Details The project builds on an existing citizen journalism activity to investigate how to use collaborative critique and construction of infographics to foster high school students? science literacy and engagement. Foundations are in sociocultural approaches to human action and learning, using the notions of mediated action […]
EXP: Learning in the Making: Studying and Designing Makerspaces
PIs: Erica Halverson, Kimberly Sheridan University of Wisconsin-Madison Award Details This project takes an ethnographic and design-based approach to understanding how and what people learn from participation in makerspaces and explores the features of those environments that can be leveraged to better promote learning. Makerspaces are physical locations where people (often families) get together to […]
EAGER: Collaborative Research: Technology to Support Mathematical Argumentation
Andee Rubin, TERC (Award Details) Kimberle Koile, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Award Details) The big question being addressed in this project is, “How can technology support the teaching and learning of mathematical argumentation?” This EAGER proposal focuses on the first steps in moving towards the vision of helping youngsters learn mathematical/algebraic argumentation. The project has […]
EXP: Improving the Quality of Worked Examples in Open, Online, Homework Help Forums
PIs: Carla van de Sande, Robert Atkinson Arizona State University Online homework help forums exist, but there is no good way, right now, for students to know whether they are getting good advice or not. The innovations here are to take advantage of the fact that many students participating in online homework forums want to […]
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