New Mexico Adventures in Modeling: Integrating IT into the Curriculum through Computer Modeling Approaches

新墨西哥州的建模冒险：通过计算机建模方法将 IT 融入课程

• 批准号: 0322573
• 负责人: Eric Klopfer
• 金额: $ 100.59万
• 依托单位: Santa Fe Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0322573&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Mexico; Adventures; Modeling; Integrating

This project will train New Mexico science, mathematics and technology teachers at the secondary level (grades 6-12) to integrate IT concepts and computer modeling, especially of complex adaptive systems, into their curricula using StarLogo simulation software, participatory simulations using handheld computers and related computer technologies. Students and teachers will analyze and explore (and later design and build) models of complex adaptive systems using a computer programming environment (StarLogo), and accompanying curriculum (Adventures in Modeling) specifically built for and tested in middle and secondary schools. Students will learn 1) design and presentation of information as they develop computer simulations that must convey certain principles; 2) system design and analysis, as they design and conduct experiments using their simulated systems; 3) data analysis tools and techniques as they collect data from their experiments and analyze it using spreadsheets, graphing tools and statistics, and; 4) computer modeling and simulation techniques that have broad applicability across many scientific and technological domains. The existing StarLogo community will be an immediate national audience for the revised free software resulting from this project.

该项目将培训新墨西哥州中学（6-12年级）的科学、数学和技术教师，使用StarLogo模拟软件、参与式模拟将IT概念和计算机建模（特别是复杂自适应系统的建模）整合到他们的课程中。使用掌上电脑和相关计算机技术。 学生和教师将使用计算机编程环境（StarLogo）分析和探索（后来设计和构建）复杂自适应系统的模型，以及专门为中学和中学构建和测试的附带课程（建模冒险）。 学生将学习1）在开发计算机模拟时设计和展示信息，这些计算机模拟必须传达某些原则; 2）系统设计和分析，因为他们使用模拟系统设计和进行实验; 3）数据分析工具和技术，因为他们从实验中收集数据并使用电子表格，图形工具和统计数据进行分析; 4）计算机建模和仿真技术，在许多科学技术领域具有广泛的适用性。 现有的StarLogo社区将成为这个项目产生的修订版自由软件的直接全国受众。