An online, interactive approach to teaching neuroscience to adolescents.
An online, interactive approach to teaching neuroscience to adolescents.
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10.1187/cbe.05-08-0115
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2006-01-01
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Mayes, Janice
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Miller, Leslie;Moreno, Janette;Mayes, Janice
今天的大多数学生都能熟练使用即时通讯、网页浏览、在线游戏和博客。这些已经成为社会景观的一部分，并改变了我们学习的方式和地点。问题变成了如何利用电子场所的吸引力和普遍性来实现神经科学教学的目标。在莱斯大学技术教学和学习中心，一个中心焦点是创造吸引中学生的创新材料。国家药物滥用研究所最近通过科学教育药物滥用伙伴奖（R25 DA15063）开展了一个项目，向青少年介绍药物滥用的神经生物学以及目前有关一类被称为俱乐部毒品的药物的研究。基于问题的学习、多媒体教学法和国家科学内容标准被整合在一起，制作出了《重建者》，这是一部通过万维网http://reconstructors.rice.edu提供的剧集。来自五所学校的学生进行了一项实地测试，评估他们在“玩”完《重建者》系列游戏后对内容的记忆能力。增益分数表明，中学生对俱乐部毒品的认知和解释其作用的基本神经科学概念有显著提高。
Most of today's students are skilled in instant messaging, Web browsing, online games, and blogs. These have become part of the social landscape and have changed how we learn and where we learn. The question becomes how to harness the attractiveness and ubiquity of electronic venues toward the goal of teaching neuroscience. At the Rice University Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning, a central focus is the creation of innovative materials that appeal to middle school students. A recent project was undertaken through a Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (R25 DA15063) from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to inform adolescents about the neurobiology of substance abuse and the current research dealing with a class of drugs known as club drugs. Problem-based learning, multimedia pedagogy, and the National Science Content Standards were integrated to produce The Reconstructors, an episodic series available via the World Wide Web at http://reconstructors.rice.edu. A field test of students from five schools assessed the retention of content after "playing" The Reconstructors series titled Nothing to Rave About. Gain scores indicated that middle school students' knowledge about club drugs and the basic neuroscience concepts that explain their effects improved significantly.