CI-TEAM Demonstration: Tsunami Shelter Challenge

网络基础设施的进步为农村社区的教育带来了新的机会。海啸避难所挑战采取了一种新的方法，利用创新软件，向广泛和多样化的参与者提供知识和基于探究的学习经验（建模和可视化），以吸引不同的观众与令人兴奋的，高度互动的材料。中学教师和他们的学生在农村学校，主要服务于西班牙裔和印第安人，将学习CAD（计算机辅助设计），使用IronCAD，计算建模和可视化技术，沿着网页设计，以及视频电话会议技能。 他们学习的CAD技能将广泛适用于工程设计，中学数学和科学。利用他们的新技能，教师将指导学生使用计算建模和可视化设计和测试海啸避难所。 他们的任务是设计一个能够承受印度洋海啸（2004年12月）和卡特里娜飓风（2005年8月）产生的风暴潮的避难所。 学生团队将负责调查和设计避难所，运行模拟，记录他们的结果，修改他们的结构，并重复模拟，直到避难所能够承受这两种灾害。 他们将使用网络技术和协作工具将结果传达给海啸研究人员和其他学校。最重要的是与海啸研究人员合作，在NEES海啸波盆地（TWB，位于俄勒冈州州立大学）建造学生避难所的物理模型进行测试。NEES TWB是专为最大限度地利用CI而设计和运营的。 学生将有机会亲眼目睹他们的计算模型如何准确预测实验室中发生的事情，以及观察CI在TWB中发挥的基本作用。 提高全体学生CI技能的最有效途径之一是提高教师的技能。 当学生能够看到CI对他们的生活和周围人的生活的适用性时，CI也是最吸引人的。 在俄勒冈州和其他沿海州，海啸和风暴潮构成了非常真实的威胁，居住在海岸附近的学生都意识到了它们可能造成的破坏。 该项目为教师和学生在计算建模和可视化方面提供了深入的经验。 该项目将为广大教师和学生带来CI技能、经验和知识。 目标学生来自代表性不足的族裔群体和俄勒冈州的大部分农村地区。 该项目中开发的材料将提供给其他CI-TEAM团体和全国各地的学校。 波浪破坏的热门话题，特别是由于海啸和飓风潮造成的生命损失，将使学生不通常从事CI理解和使用它来解决有关保障人类生命的问题。 利用TWB的远程呈现能力，全国的学生将能够参与海啸研究。

Advances in Cyberinfrastructure bring new opportunities for education in rural communities. The Tsunami Shelter Challenge takes a new approach in delivering knowledge and inquiry-based learning experiences to a broad and diverse set of constituents, making use of innovative software (modeling and visualization) to engage a diverse audience with exciting, highly interactive materials.Middle School teachers and their students in rural schools, serving primarily Hispanic and Native American, will learn CAD (computer aided design), using IronCAD, computational modeling and visualization techniques along with web page design, and video teleconferencing skills. The CAD skills they learn will be broadly applicable to engineering design, middle school math and sciences. Using their new skills, the teachers will guide students in the design and testing of a tsunami shelter using computational modeling and visualization. Their task will be to design a shelter that will withstand the forces that occurred in the Indian Ocean Tsunami (December 2004) and the storm surge produced by Hurricane Katrina (August 2005). Student teams will be responsible for investigating and designing the shelter, running the simulations, documenting their results, modifying their structure, and repeating the simulation until the shelter is able to withstand both disasters. They will then use web technology and collaborative tools to communicate their results to tsunami researchers and other schools.The capstone will be the construction of physical models of the students' shelters for testing at the NEES Tsunami Wave Basin (TWB, located at Oregon State University) in partnership with tsunami researchers. The NEES TWB is specifically designed and operated for the maximum utilization of CI. Students will have the opportunity to see firsthand how their computational models accurately predicted what happens in an experimental lab, as well as observing the fundamental role that CI plays at the TWB. One of the most efficient ways to increase all students' CI skills is to enhance their teachers' skills. CI is also most engaging when students can see the applicability of CI to their lives and the lives of the people around them. In Oregon and other coastal states, tsunamis and storm surges constitute very real threats, and students living near the coast are aware of the damage they can cause. This project provides in-depth experiences for both teachers and students in computational modeling and visualization. It also clearly ties computational modeling to physical reality.The project will bring CI skills, experiences, and knowledge to a broad range of teachers and their students. The targeted students are from underrepresented ethnic groups and largely rural areas of Oregon. The materials developed in the project will be available to other CI-TEAM groups and to schools nationwide. The topical issue of wave damage, particularly the loss of lives due to tsunamis and hurricane surges, will allow students not normally engaged in CI to understand and use it to solve problems related to the safeguarding of human life. Using the telepresence capabilities of the TWB, students nationwide will be able to participate in tsunami research.