Project Based Teaching Design And Practice For Cultivating Innovative Ability Of Middle School Students Based On Open Source Hardware

With the rapid development of information technology,innovation will become a driving factor for future social development and the ultimate goal of cultivating excellent talents in education and teaching.Open source hardware teaching tools are easy to operate and have good scalability,which can cultivate students’ high-level thinking.However,the current learning situation of open-source hardware in the basic education stage is to separate the learning of software and hardware,and the two are not well integrated.The emphasis is too much on students’ "doing" and output,while neglecting their learning thinking and process.Therefore,it has been determined that the focus of the open-source hardware project-based teaching activity designed in this study is to focus on students as the main body and pay attention to their learning process and changes.This study takes project-based teaching process as the macro framework,uses open-source hardware teaching content as the carrier,and aims to cultivate and enhance students’ innovation ability.It has developed five teaching links with more explicit operational significance,namely problem identification and project establishment,for project-based teaching and innovation ability cultivation;Decomposing projects and project preparation;Determine plans and develop plans;Project implementation and materialized works;Achievements display,summary evaluation,and refining the framework of junior high school open source hardware project-based teaching activities suitable for cultivating innovative abilities.Design an open-source hardware teaching content system that conforms to students’ cognitive level and knowledge foundation,including three progressive teaching modules:initial understanding control,creative control,and play control.The system includes ten project cases to systematically and spirally improve students’ innovation ability.Practice the designed case at the Q extracurricular activity center in W city,and comprehensively analyze the effectiveness of course implementation by measuring the scores of students’ creativity tendency scale before and after teaching practice,providing feedback on the training process,and conducting interviews.The results show that the overall level of students’ innovation ability has improved after the implementation of the curriculum.