Teaching neuroscience through Web adventures: Adolescents reconstruct the history and science of opioids
Teaching neuroscience through Web adventures: Adolescents reconstruct the history and science of opioids
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10.1177/107385840200800106
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
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5.6
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Smith, D
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Miller, L;Schweingruber, H;Smith, D
围绕青少年使用万维网的新技术和文化发展提供了将互联网游戏现象的各个方面转化为神经科学教育优势的机会。具体来说，这里报告了一个通过交互式网络冒险传播基于问题的学习和国家科学标准的各个方面的实验项目。 《重建者》是一个基于网络的情景冒险系列，名为“历史中的医学之谜”。它由国家药物滥用研究所资助，第一个系列重点关注阿片类药物。它是在中学生和教师的投入下创建的。通过使用多媒体技术，中学生进入了一个未来世界，他们成为“重建者”，成为精英科学单位的成员，负责恢复丢失的有关镇痛药物的医学知识。四集中的两集已经通过中学生、教师、神经科学研究人员和临床医生的综合审查过程进行了评估。对前测和后测分数的分析表明，知识的显着增长可以有效地归因于游戏的使用。这些数据证明科学内容可以通过创新的在线技术进行传播，而无需牺牲引人注目的内容或有效的教学策略。
New technological and cultural developments surrounding adolescents' use of the World Wide Web offer an opportunity for turning aspects of the Internet gaming phenomenon to the advantage of neuroscience education. Specifically, an experimental project to transmit aspects of problem-based learning and the National Science Standards through an interactive Web adventure is reported here. The Reconstructors is an episodic Web-based adventure series entitled Medicinal Mysteries from History. It is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the first series focuses on opioids. It was created with the input of middle school students and teachers. Through the use of multimedia technologies, middle school students enter a futuristic world in which they become "reconstructors," members of an elite scientific unit charged with recovering lost medical knowledge about analgesic drugs. Two of the four episodes have been evaluated through a comprehensive review process involving middle school students, teachers, neuroscience researchers, and clinicians. Analysis of the pretest and posttest scores demonstrated significant knowledge gain that validly can be attributed to use of the game. These data provide evidence that science content can be transmitted through innovative online techniques without sacrificing compelling content or effective pedagogical strategies.