The Interactive Electronic Blackboard for Natural Science and Math Education

该项目的目的是大幅提高保留 自然科学和数学学生，特别是那些 学术准备不足和英语语言缺陷， 通过一个高度可视化，用户友好的计算机为基础的学习， 这是一个交互式的、强大的和直观的环境。一个 25个NeXT学生站的电子教室正在使用 在一个全面的计划，以发展这一视觉和 直观的方法。学科专用课件已经 由CSLA教师沿着可用的商业 应用程序正在使用。每个学生站都是 一个交互式的电子黑板， 可以看到，听到，探索，从而充分参与 学习中的感觉。来自5个目标学科的8名教师 我已经花了两年时间开发课程材料， 为NeXT设计课件在这个项目中，团队 在拟议的实验室中教授大约10门课程， 150多名自然科学和数学本科生和100多名 普通教育学生每年。四个新的交叉学科 正在开发的课程：在科学中使用数学， 为科学家准备的资料单，科学资料的视觉展示 信息和电子网络作为科学研究的工具 Research.现有的目标课程有：生物识别，生物 建模，群体遗传学，介绍。化学成分：物理化学， 物理地质学，计算机辅助制图，微积分，计算机 图形学、面向对象编程、广义相对论和 理论物理学和天文学 项目成果正在 在区域和国家一级传播， 在运行全州教师研讨会上的教师经验 NeXT课件开发。受资助者正在匹配此奖项 非联邦来源。

This project's purpose is to substantially increase retention of natural science and math students, especially those with poor academic preparation and English language deficiencies, through a highly visual, user friendly computer-based learning environment that is interactive, powerful and intuitive. An electronic classroom of 25 NeXT student stations is being used in a comprehensive plan for developing this visual and intuitive approach. Discipline specific courseware already created by CSLA faculty along with available commercial applications is being used. Each student's station serves as an interactive electronic blackboard so that science and math can be seen, heard, and explored, thus fully engaging the senses in learning. Eight faculty from 5 target disciplines have already spent 2 years developing curricular materials and designing courseware for the NeXT. In this project the team teaches approximately 10 courses in the proposed lab involving more than 150 natural science and math undergraduates and 100 general education students annually. Four new interdisciplinary courses are being developed: Using Mathmatica in Science, Spreadsheets for Scientists, Visual Display of Scientific Information, and Electronic Networking as a Tool in Scientific Research. Targeted existing courses are: Biometrics, Biological Modelling, Population Genetics, Intro. Chem., Physical Chem., Physical Geology, Computer Aided Map Making, Calculus, Computer Graphics, Object Oriented Programming, General Relativity, and Theoretical Physics and Astronomy. Project results are being disseminated regionally and nationally, taking advantage of faculty experience in running statewide faculty workshops on NeXT courseware development.The grantee is matching this award from non-Federal sources.