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

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，利用StarLogo仿真软件、手持计算机的参与式模拟和相关计算机技术，将信息技术概念和计算机建模，特别是复杂自适应系统的建模，整合到他们的课程中。学生和教师将使用计算机编程环境（StarLogo）分析和探索（并随后设计和构建）复杂自适应系统的模型，以及专门为中学和中学建立和测试的附带课程（建模冒险）。学生将学习1)设计和展示信息，因为他们开发的计算机模拟必须传达某些原则；2)系统设计和分析，使用他们的模拟系统进行设计和实验；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、绘图工具和统计数据进行分析；4)在许多科学和技术领域具有广泛适用性的计算机建模和仿真技术。现有的StarLogo社区将是由这个项目产生的修改后的自由软件的直接的全国受众。

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.