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，将信息技术概念和计算机建模，特别是复杂适应系统的计算机建模，纳入他们的课程，使用StarLogo模拟软件，使用手持计算机和相关计算机技术进行参与式模拟。学生和教师将使用计算机编程环境(StarLogo)以及专门为中学构建和测试的配套课程(建模中的冒险)来分析和探索复杂适应系统的模型(并在以后设计和构建)。学生将学习1)在开发计算机模拟时必须传达某些原理的信息的设计和呈现；2)系统设计和分析，因为他们使用模拟的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、图表工具和统计进行分析；4)计算机建模和模拟技术，在许多科学和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所产生的修订后的自由软件的直接全国受众。

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.