Fostering Creativity, Teamwork and Scientific Thinking in the Introductory Biology Laboratory: A Computer-Based Approach

9451880道利计算机将用于创建初级生物实验室，通过鼓励创造力、交流和团队合作来培养学生的科学思维。给入门学生一个实验的、仪器丰富的实验室体验同样重要，但如果强调食谱技术而牺牲科学创造力，这种体验将是空洞的。在这里，我们建议使用计算机专门培养学生的科学创造力，使他们在实验设计方面具有灵活性，鼓励团队合作，并使他们能够与广泛的同龄人交流。这些实验室将通过要求四人一组的学生在为期数周的开放式练习中设计实验来培养创造力。每个团队都将有自己的实验台，配备一台连接到局域网和互联网的Macintosh计算机。计算机将被用来给学生提供更广泛的选择来创造他们的实验设计，并增加他们提出问题的灵活性：“如果我们尝试这样做会怎么样？”我们建议使用的软件具有足够的通用性和通用性，它鼓励学生探索不同的实验方法，而不需要口述特定的设计。最初在学生团队中形成的想法，将在团队之间使用本地网络和基于计算机的口头报告进行交流。

9451880 Dawley Computer will be used in creating introductory biology laboratories that foster scientific thinking among students by encouraging creativity, communication, and teamwork. As important as it is to give introductory students an experimental, instrument-rich laboratory experience, this experience will be empty if it emphasizes cookbook technique at the expense of scientific creativity. Here we propose using computers specifically to nurture scientific creativity in our students by giving them flexibility in experimental design, encouraging teamwork, and making it possible for them to communicate with a wide circle of their peers. These laboratories will foster creativity by requiring student teams of four to design experiments in multi-week, open-ended exercises. Each team will have its own laboratory bench equipped with a Macintosh computer linked to a local area network and to the Internet. Computers will be used to give students a wider range of options in creating their experimental designs and to increase their flexibility in asking the question "What if we try it this way?" The software we propose using is sufficiently versatile and general that it encourages students to explore different experimental approaches without dictating a particular design. Ideas, initially developed within student teams, will be exchanged among teams using the local network and computer-based oral presentations.