Using Interactive Video to Increase Science Literacy and Develop Higher Level Thinking Skills In Science and Non-Science Majors

这个项目将建立一个以IBM和麦金塔电脑、唯读光碟和镭射光碟播放机以及视像光碟为基础的互动视像实验室，供本科生科学教育使用。它的重点是提高本科生的科学素养和理解力，包括大量在这些领域代表性不足的非传统、女性和少数族裔学生。教师将把互动视频技术纳入以下领域的教学：生物、化学和物理。该设备将为学生提供机会，包括中小学教师和非科学专业的学生，他们需要满足认证和学位完成的科学要求，专注于批判性思维，因为它与科学研究有关：制定和检验假设；解决问题;使 决策。由于该技术能够复制教师无法做到的实验，该设备将使学生拥有更广泛的实验室经验，并有多种机会进行假设，测试和修改，而不是传统实验室实验所允许的。它将构成一种更加“用户友好”的科学方法，因为它将减轻对在实验室工作的恐惧，特别是对未来的教师来说，它将为他们提供积极学习策略和使用技术的模型，这些技术在堪萨斯城的学区正在广泛使用。

This project will implement an interactive video laboratory based on IBM and Macintosh computers, CD-ROM and laserdisc players and videodisc for use in undergraduate science education. It focuses on increasing scientific literacy and sophistication among undergraduates, including significant numbers of non-traditional, women and minority students who are typically underrepresented these fields. Faculty will incorporate interactive video technology into teaching in the following areas: biology, chemistry, and physics. The equipment will give students, including elementary and secondary teachers and non-science majors who need to meet science requirements for certification and degree-completion, the opportunity to focus on critical thinking as it relates to scientific study: formulating and testing hypotheses; solving problems; making decisions. Because of the ability of the technology to replicate experiments which faculty could not otherwise do, the equipment will enable students to have a wider variety of laboratory experiences and multiple opportunities to hypothesize, test and revise than conventional laboratory experiments would allow. It would constitute a more "user- friendly" approach to science because it would alleviate fears about working in a laboratory and, particularly for future teachers, it would model for them active learning strategies and use of technology which is becoming widely available in the Kansas City school districts.