ADVANCED COMPUTING FOR SCIENCE EDUCATION

科学教育高级计算项目提出， 利用和建立在最先进的计算技术的状态， 营造一个通用的科学学习环境。 的 环境将提供强大而独特的集成， 专门针对以下需求的计算工具： 科学学科的学生。 它旨在发展一个 支持学生的通用语言和学习环境 努力提出和回答广泛的问题 科学兴趣，并在模拟环境中测试它们。 拟议的工作是创新的，因为它促进了一种风格， 学习和科学探究，这是目前没有的， 科学的计算机学习环境。 这是 通过利用编程语言作为车辆来实现， 科学话语，利用抽象作为一种手段， 处理复杂性，并结合高质量的图形 和动画能力。 它旨在补充一个 完整的科学课程与虚拟实验室，允许 实验，否则可能是不可能的或需要 禁止的资源。 与传统系统相比， 学生的参与不仅限于已经 这是作者事先预料到的。 拟议的工作是重要的，因为它涉及广泛的 通过激励和 鼓励学生应用他们的知识，发展他们的 科学探究的技巧， 先进科学的有趣话题。 这项工作假定 计算机编程语言是有用的和强大的， 科学话语的语言。 这一论断将受到检验 通过评估环境的有效性， 不同的师生计算背景在一个先进的 发育生物学课程，大学新生课程，以及 高中生物课程。//

The Advanced Computing for Science Education project proposes to utilize and build upon state of the art computing technology to construct a general purpose science learning environment. The environment will provide a powerful and unique integration of computing tools that is specifically targeted to the needs of students in a scientific discipline. It seeks to develop a general language and learning environment that supports student efforts to pose and answer broad classes of questions of scientific interest and to test them in a simulated environment. The proposed work is innovative in that it promotes a style of learning and scientific inquiry that is not available in current computer-based learning environments for science. This is accomplished by utilizing a programming language as a vehicle for scientific discourse, exploiting abstraction as a means of dealing with complexity, and incorporating high quality graphics and animation capabilities. It is intended to supplement a complete science curriculum with a virtual laboratory that allows experimentation which may otherwise be impossible or require prohibitive resources. In contrast to traditional systems, student participation is not limited to avenues that have been anticipated in advance by the author of the lesson. The proposed work is important because it addresses widely perceived problems of science education by motivating and encouraging students to apply their knowledge and develop their skills of scientific inquiry in exploring important and interesting topics of advanced science. This work postulates that a computer programming language is useful and powerful as a language of scientific discourse. This assertion will be tested by evaluating the effectiveness of the environment in situations of varying teacher-student computing backgrounds in an advanced course in developmental biology, freshman college course, and in a high school biology course. //