K-12 classroom settings are not yet incorporating emerging technologies such as ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, nor even touch surfaces, despite the significant impact that such media have made in many other aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, classroom environments have not generally evolved to support students in the new modes of collaboration, idea sharing, and inquiry that characterize many of our research-based innovations. Responding to this challenge, our research was conducted by a multi-disciplinary design team including educational researchers, a high school physics teacher, and technology designers. We embarked on a series of design-based research projects to investigate a smart classroom infrastructure that scaffolds students and teachers in new forms of collaboration and inquiry, including a substantive role for large projected displays and small touch surfaces, as well as a dependency on students’ physical location within the room. This paper describes our designs, including: (1) the role of large displays for communicating aggregate and ambient information, (2) the role of real-time communication between students, (3) the application of intelligent software agents to enact real-time pedagogical logic, (4) support for learning across contexts, and (5) orchestration of inquiry roles, materials and environments. These designs are particularly relevant for the Learning Sciences community, as they offer insight into how the orchestrated classroom can support new forms of collaborative, cooperative and collective inquiry. One important outcome of this work is a set of design principles for supporting smart classroom research.

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开发智能教室基础设施以支持实时学生协作和询问：一项为期4年的设计研究

尽管此类媒体已在我们生活的许多其他方面产生了巨大影响，但K-12教室的环境尚未融合诸如无处不在的计算，增强现实以及甚至触摸屏之类的新兴技术。不幸的是，教室环境总体上并未演变为以新的协作，思想共享和探究模式来支持学生，这是我们许多基于研究的创新的特征。为了应对这一挑战，我们的研究是由一个多学科的设计团队进行的，其中包括教育研究人员，高中物理老师和技术设计师。我们着手进行了一系列基于设计的研究项目，以研究一种智能教室基础设施，该基础设施可以以新的协作和探究形式支持学生和教师，包括大型投影显示器和小型触摸屏的实质性作用，以及对学生在房间内实际位置的依赖。本文介绍了我们的设计，包括：（1）大显示器在传达聚合和环境信息方面的作用；（2）学生之间实时交流的作用；（3）应用智能软件代理制定实时信息教学逻辑，（4）支持跨上下文学习，（5）协调查询角色，材料和环境。这些设计与学习科学社区特别相关，因为它们提供了关于精心布置的教室如何支持新形式的协作，合作和集体探究的见解。这项工作的一个重要成果是支持智能教室研究的一组设计原则。