SMART LAB, An Integrated Interdisciplinary Science/Math Laboratory

自然科学学院正在开发一个基于计算机的智能实验室（科学/数学主动响应技术实验室），以支持科学和数学的跨学科本科学习。实验室的学习模式是以技术为媒介的，通过参与合作学习小组，设计，完成和报告实验室项目，让学生积极响应科学/数学主题。实验室使用基于主题的调查，其结构是为了强调科学学科和数学的相互联系的性质，无论是通过使用的特定练习，并通过内部和外部的直接实验室设置的协作交流。智能实验室是使用实验室的不同学科的班级之间交换数据，见解和科学/数学概念的场所。计算机在四个主要角色中起作用：作为实验室数据采集的设备控制器;作为实验室数据可视化、检查、评估和解释的分析工具;作为与实验室项目相关的网络数据资源的网关;并作为与其他教育社区（如南达科他州部落和非部落K-12教室以及其他本科科学/数学课程）的沟通链接，在美国和国外。 教育/自然科学综合方案中的预备中学科学/数学教育专业和预备小学教育专业是该项目所针对的学生群体的很大一部分。通过做科学来学习科学，智能实验室的中心主题，在K-12科学教师的准备中尤为重要。这些兼职教师，以及其他本科专业，受益于共享的知识和实验室和其他教室（K-12，部落学院，大学）之间的网络链接。通过承担导师/教师的角色，智能实验室的大学生显着增加了他们自己对特定实验室主题和一般科学/数学概念的理解。

The College of Natural Sciences is developing a computer-based SMART LAB (Science/Math Active Response Technology Laboratory) to support interdisciplinary, undergraduate learning in science and mathematics. The learning model for the laboratory is technology mediated, allowing for active student response to science/math topics through involvement in cooperative learning groups, which design, complete, and report on lab projects. Laboratories use topic-based investigations, which are structured to emphasize the interconnected nature of the science disciplines and mathematics, both through the particular exercises used and through collaborative interchange within and beyond the immediate lab setting. The SMART LAB serves as a locus for exchange of data, insights, and science/math concepts among classes in different disciplines using the lab. Computers function in four major roles: as device controllers for laboratory data acquisition; as analytical tools for the visualization, inspection, evaluation, and interpretation of lab data; as gateways to network data resources relevant to the lab projects; and as links for communication with other educational communities, such as South Dakota tribal and nontribal K-12 classrooms and other undergraduate science/math classes, both in the United States and abroad. Preservice secondary science/math education majors in combined Education/Natural Sciences programs and preservice elementary education majors are a substantial part of the student population addressed by the project. Learning science by doing science, the central theme of the SMART LAB, is particularly important in the preparation of K-12 science teachers. Those preservice teachers, as well as other undergraduate majors, benefit from the shared knowledge and the network links between the laboratory and other classrooms (K-12, tribal colleges, universities). By assuming the role of mentor/teacher, college students in the SMART LAB add significantly to their own comprehension of the particular lab topics and of general science/math concepts.