Bhuyan Jay, Wu Fan, Thomas Cassandra, Koong Kai, Won Hur Jung, Wang Chih-Hsuan
College of Business and Information Science, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA.
Department of Educational Foundations, Leadership& Technology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA.
TechTrends. 2020 Nov;64(6):899-910. doi: 10.1007/s11528-020-00502-7. Epub 2020 Apr 22.
This paper describes the design, implementation, and results of an NSF funded Summer Academy from 2016 to 2018, which engaged, on an annual basis, 30 to 60 rising 10th and 11th grade high school science students in an innovative, technology-enriched Project Based Learning (PBL) environment. This Academy emphasized how tech gadgets work and the impact that technology can have on improving communities by immersing students in the exploration of one such device that is a growing phenomenon, the "aerial drone." In this Academy, the students learned various operations of the drone through Python programming language, and some cybersecurity issues and solutions. The student teams, under the guidance of diverse mentors, comprehensively fortified their STEM problem-solving skills and critical thinking. Both formative and summative evaluations for this Academy showed that it helped students improve their critical thinking ability and motivated them to pursue careers in STEM-related disciplines, specifically in information technology and cybersecurity areas.
本文描述了一个由美国国家科学基金会资助的2016年至2018年暑期学院的设计、实施和成果。该学院每年吸引30至60名即将升入10年级和11年级的高中理科学生，让他们置身于一个创新的、技术丰富的基于项目的学习（PBL）环境中。该学院通过让学生深入探索一种日益普遍的设备——“航拍无人机”，强调了科技小工具的工作原理以及技术对改善社区可能产生的影响。在这个学院里，学生们通过Python编程语言学习了无人机的各种操作，以及一些网络安全问题和解决方案。学生团队在不同导师的指导下，全面强化了他们的STEM解决问题能力和批判性思维。对该学院的形成性和总结性评估均表明，它有助于学生提高批判性思维能力，并激励他们追求与STEM相关学科的职业，特别是信息技术和网络安全领域的职业。
