IDEAS: Inquiry-based Dynamic Earth Applications of Supercomputing, Seeing the Big Picture with Information Technology

想法：基于查询的超级计算动态地球应用，通过信息技术了解全局

• 批准号: 0737583
• 负责人: Bruce Segee
• 金额: $ 118.55万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IDEAS; Inquiry; based; Dynamic; Earth

This project will connect researchers at the University of Maine with students and middle school teachers, both at the University (during a summer workshop) and at participating schools (during the academic year) to utilize computer modeling and visualization of geological processes in the classroom. The proposed project will have 60 participating teachers each with 120 contact hours at the University of Maine, as well as 180 students, each with 20 contact hours at the University of Maine. The focus of this project is to integrate computational modeling with the existing science curriculum at the middle school level. This will be accomplished largely by collectively utilizing existing laptop computer computational power and networking capability to run computer models, both locally and at the University supercomputer, and to create high resolution interactive visualization displays (from the same laptops) to view the output. The specific goals are to: 1) develop numeric simulation and visualization tools for geodynamics with the involvement of middle school teachers and education experts; 2) train middle school teachers on the integration of such tools in the teaching of the existing curriculum topics; 3) stimulate middle school students' interest in science and technology and improve their knowledge and performance in these areas; and 4) disseminate such tools and effective pedagogies enabled by them to all middle schools in Maine, with the promise of the tools and methods serving as a model for other schools contemplating the use of laptop computers in the classroom. The project takes advantage of the fact that every seventh and eighth grade student and teacher in the state of Maine is issued an Apple laptop computer. These computers are all networked together and to the outside world via wireless networks within the classroom. Additionally, all schools and libraries within the state of Maine have high speed (wired) Internet connections. Another factor that is leveraged is the University of Maine's 512 CPU cluster supercomputer that is also based on the Apple platform, as well as a number of researchers who perform numerical modeling using this cluster.

该项目将把缅因州大学的研究人员与学生和中学教师联系起来，在大学(暑期研讨会期间)和参与学校(学年期间)利用课堂上的计算机建模和地质过程可视化。拟议的项目将有60名参与教师，每人在缅因州大学接触120个小时，以及180名学生，每人在缅因州大学接触20个小时。该项目的重点是将计算建模与中学现有的科学课程相结合。这将在很大程度上通过共同利用现有膝上型计算机的计算能力和联网能力来在本地和大学超级计算机上运行计算机模型，并创建高分辨率交互式可视化显示(从相同的膝上型计算机)来查看输出。具体目标是：1)在中学教师和教育专家的参与下，开发地球动力学的数值模拟和可视化工具；2)培训中学教师在现有课程主题的教学中整合这些工具；3)激发中学生对科学和技术的兴趣，提高他们在这些领域的知识和表现；以及4)向缅因州的所有中学传播这些工具和有效的教学方法，这些工具和方法有望成为其他考虑在课堂上使用笔记本电脑的学校的榜样。该项目利用了这样一个事实，即缅因州的每个七年级和八年级的学生和教师都获得了一台苹果笔记本电脑。这些计算机都联网在一起，并通过教室内的无线网络与外部世界相连。此外，缅因州内的所有学校和图书馆都有高速(有线)互联网连接。另一个被利用的因素是缅因州大学的512 CPU集群超级计算机，它也基于Apple平台，以及一些使用该集群执行数值建模的研究人员。