Serving the Needs of Pre-College Science and Mathematics Education Impact of a Digital National Library on Teacher Education and Practice. Proceedings from a National Research Council Workshop (1999) / Chapter Skim
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However, workshop participants also acknowledged that many issues needed to be resolved before such an entity could come into existence, including questions of audience, the source of materials in the library, the organization of those materials, methods of funding the effort, the protection of intellectual property, the technology it would use, ways of evaluating materials submitted or included in the library, and the organization or people who would be charged with maintaining and updating the resource.. A central issue that permeated the workshop was who the potential users for a digital national library might be.
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· Include in an NE information about and access to projects in undergraduate SME&T education that the NSF and other agencies have supported financially. Develop and issue one or more Requests For Proposals (RFPs)
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· What materials and resources can this community contribute to a DNE that would be useful to both the pre-college and undergraduate communities was well as for lifelong learners? This report summarizes the discussion at the workshop, highlighting important issues raised bY workshop participants about the use of a digital national library bv the pre-college community.
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Frank Wattenberg, NSF program officer in charge of the Division of Undergraduate Education's digital library initiative. Following those introductions, Jay Labov of the National Research Council next summarized the conclusions of the August 1997 workshop and the ensuing report (National Research Council, 1998)
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it could range from raw data generated by experimental instrumentation in scientific laboratories or from educational research to peer reviewed articles. Educational materials could include course syllabi, reading lists, lab exercises, or entire textbooks.
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This was one of those crystallizing events that he could see: My idea connects with someone else's." A digital library also would complement other kinds of educational materials. Kimberly Roempler of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse cited an example of a physics textbook that has a website with links and online projects organized chapter by chapter.
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4 The idea of users contributing their own work and research data to a digital library was specifically addressed in the original workshop. Participants at that workshop proposed that a section of the digital national library be set aside for such a purpose.
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A frequently updated "Digital Dozen" points visitors "to what we think are the best sites and the best resources available," said Roempler, who directs the Instructional Resources Division of the Clearinghouse. Links to regional consortia and collaborators enable users to find local contacts.
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National Research Council's Project RISE Project RISE,i' a website intended to increase the involvement of scientists and engineers in public education, took a different approach to the presentation of exemplary materials. It offered about a dozen examples of exemplary projects that showed the different kinds of roles that scientists and engineers could play in improving pre-college science and technology education.
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By accessing the sciLINKS web site and entering the code, students and teachers are guided to professionally selected web sites that support the particular science subject introduced in the text." |4 A proxy server stores documents or data that are frequently accessed by a defined group of users. The proxy server automatically requests information from the original source only when that source has been updated or has expired.
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Those are the numbers ~ want to reach." Masullo also pointed out that because technological advances are occurring increasingly rapidly, it is important to look beyond current models for producing and delivering content and other resources. Although current thinking for delivery of goods and services from a NE is primarily via the World Wide Web, some new dissemination vehicle may evolve and eclipse current uses of the Internet.
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Many teachers want a national digital library to allow learners to achieve multidisciplinary perspectives on problems. Workshop participants indicated that the developers of a digital national library for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology need to concentrate on these disciplines.
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The obvious drawback of such a scheme is that reviewing inevitably takes time, whereas materials placed directly on the Internet can appear immediately. Decisions about what is placed into the DL ultimately would be the responsibility of the board of overseers for this resource (also see the Executive Summary from report of the first digital library conference, Appendix A, page 253.
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Or, watt the digital revolution so permeate education that current notions of curriculum and other teaching and learning tools will yield to new paradigms? Articulafion and Standards A national digital library could help address one important problem in education today the lack of articulation between different parts of the educational system.
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For example, a national digital library could offer video clips of teachers delivering virtually any kind of lesson imaginable (e.g., such as those produced for the Third international Mathematics and Science Study)
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Alternative certification programs for teachers also need to incorporate computer training. Because of teacher shortages in many parts of the country, many people now are being hired into teaching without the formal background usually required of new teachers, yet both these teachers and their more senior colleagues may need to know how to use a national digital library.
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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE To summarize their deliberations, workshop participants devised the following objective for a national digital library that could be used by the pre-college community: Such a system should provide comprehensive resources for quality teaching and learning in science. mathematics, engineering, and technology.
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Illustrations of best practice Text, audio, video, and software tools that can demonstrate to new teachers and provide insight to practicing teachers about alternative ways to present information, concepts, and skills to students in a variety of learning settings and situations. Despite the many questions that continue to surround a digital national library, workshop participants were extremely optimistic when asked to envision what might be expected in the foreseeable future.
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Yet the potential of a digital national library to fur~damentally change the ways that science, mathematics, and technology are taught in the nation's schools and postsecondary institutions is sufficiently great to meet that challenge. Workshop participants Took forward to seeing this vision of a digital national library that provides resources, materials, and connections among the science, mathematics, engineering, and technology communities realized as quickly as possible.
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