Equipment to Interface Modern Technology with Critical Thinking in the Genetics Laboratory

将现代技术与遗传学实验室批判性思维相结合的设备

• 批准号: 9851581
• 负责人: Carl Luciano
• 金额: $ 3.99万
• 依托单位: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Interface; Modern; Technology; Critical

The Department of Biology of Indiana University of Pennsylvania is implementing reforms to create a cohesive, student-centered natural sciences learning community; a new curriculum for Biology majors, stressing hands-on, experiential learning and providing progressively greater opportunities for semi-independent student research. Three components are being introduced into the Genetics course, a course required for students preparing to be biology teachers and the capstone course of the new curriculum: (1) a distributive computing environment for the course to enable utilization of genetic analysis programs available on the Internet; (2) a set of new experiments emphasizing modern molecular genetics and providing opportunities for discovery and for synthesis; and (3) addition of a required student research project to the laboratory segment of the course. The equipment is also being used in Saturday workshops for in-service teachers and in a set of traveling workstations. Preservice biology teachers are assisting with the workshops and are being given the opportunity to utilize the workstations during their student teaching.

宾夕法尼亚印第安纳大学生物系正在实施改革，以创建一个有凝聚力的、以学生为中心的自然科学学习社区；为生物专业的学生设置新的课程，强调动手、体验式学习，并为半独立的学生研究提供越来越多的机会。遗传学课程包括三个组成部分，这是学生准备成为生物教师的必修课，也是新课程的顶峰课程：(1)课程的分布式计算环境，以便能够使用互联网上的遗传分析程序；(2)一套强调现代分子遗传学并提供发现和合成机会的新实验；(3)在课程的实验室部分增加必需的学生研究项目。这些设备也被用于周六的在职教师讲习班和一系列流动工作站。职前生物学教师正在协助讲习班，并在他们的学生教学过程中获得使用工作站的机会。