Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?

生物教育的变体：我们可以从流行病中学到什么？

• 批准号: 2305495
• 负责人: Teresa Mourad
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Ecological Society of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-15 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2305495&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Variants; Biology; Education; What; learn

From March 23-25, 2023, the 8th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference (LDC) will convene at Florida A&M University on the theme, “Variants in Biology Education: What can we learn from pandemics?” This event is co-organized by the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the Botanical Society of America (BSA), and the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE). There are real impacts on people’s lives and decisions when scientifically based information is not understood and/or rejected. The conference will draw from socio-behavioral research which can be applied to pedagogy. The conference theme wrestles with three key issues impacting teaching and learning which form three thematic tracks: a) adapting to and teaching disease ecology; b) science misinformation, and c) research innovation and careers. These tracks will highlight promising practices, programs, and strategies that can be implemented in the classroom while fostering a longer term effort to improve biology education and career readiness. It will also build on the previous conference which focused on inclusive educational strategies critical to engaging both science and non-science majors, especially underrepresented minority populations. By facilitating discovery and exchange of tools and resources for STEM and media literacy, the event will position faculty to help generations of digital natives who rely on social media for information to combat false information and extend far beyond the classroom to students’ homes and communities. NSF funds will support the connection and participation of under-resourced faculty in organismal biology and environmental sciences from minority-serving institutions, community colleges and primarily undergraduate institutions, who are frequently isolated across the US.The conference will provide a forum for educators to engage in a discipline-based national conversation three years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic inexorably rocked the world. Its impact on education has been no less profound. The conference organizers will take advantage of this opportunity to use very real phenomena backed by lived experience to discuss key ideas in ecology and evolutionary biology that have previously been difficult to teach. At the same time, this conference will provide a platform for educators to discuss approaches to teaching the difference between fake news and learning real science. An exchange of strategies will be beneficial so educators might respond more effectively in different sociopolitical climates to a fast-evolving scientific phenomenon and an even faster “viral resistance” to information based on science. Made visible by the pandemic, innovations in science and research are introducing new questions that can now be asked and answered. The conference will highlight opportunities for emerging STEM and STEM-adjacent careers fueled by technological advancements such as those offered by new RNA research, as well as key findings in the social sciences which are mobilizing new understandings of vulnerability and resilience globally. The conference will also extend education reform efforts propelled by "Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education" (AAAS) a decade ago and highlight recent advances to provide a cohesive and modern approach to ecology education through ESA’s Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

从2023年3月23日至25日，第八届生命发现-做科学生物学教育会议（LDC）将在佛罗里达A M大学召开，主题是“生物学教育的变体：我们能从流行病中学到什么？”该活动由美国生态学会（ESA），美国植物学会（BSA）和进化研究学会（SSE）共同组织。当基于科学的信息不被理解和/或被拒绝时，对人们的生活和决定会产生真实的影响。会议将借鉴可应用于教育学的社会行为研究。会议主题与影响教学和学习的三个关键问题搏斗，形成三个主题轨道：a）适应和教学疾病生态学; B）科学错误信息;和c）研究创新和职业。这些轨道将突出有前途的做法，计划和战略，可以在课堂上实施，同时促进长期努力，以提高生物学教育和职业准备。它还将建立在上一次会议的基础上，该会议侧重于包容性教育战略，这对吸引科学和非科学专业的学生，特别是代表性不足的少数民族人口至关重要。 通过促进STEM和媒体素养工具和资源的发现和交流，该活动将使教师能够帮助依赖社交媒体获取信息的几代数字原住民打击虚假信息，并远远超出课堂，延伸到学生的家庭和社区。NSF的资金将支持来自少数民族服务机构、社区学院和主要是本科院校的生物生物学和环境科学方面资源不足的教师的联系和参与，这些机构在美国各地经常被孤立。会议将为教育工作者提供一个论坛，让他们在COVID-19大流行无情地震撼世界三年后参与基于学科的全国对话。它对教育的影响也同样深远。会议组织者将利用这个机会，使用由生活经验支持的非常真实的现象来讨论生态学和进化生物学中以前很难教授的关键思想。 与此同时，本次会议将为教育工作者提供一个平台，讨论如何教授假新闻和学习真实的科学之间的区别。交流战略将是有益的，这样教育工作者就可以在不同的社会政治气候下更有效地应对快速发展的科学现象，以及对基于科学的信息更快的“病毒式抵抗”。在这场大流行病的影响下，科学和研究的创新正在提出新的问题，现在可以提出和回答这些问题。会议将突出新兴STEM和STEM相邻职业的机会，这些职业由新的RNA研究提供的技术进步以及社会科学的关键发现推动，这些发现正在动员全球对脆弱性和韧性的新理解。会议还将扩展十年前由“本科生物学教育的愿景和变革”（AAAS）推动的教育改革努力，并强调最近的进展，通过欧空局的四维生态教育（4DEE）框架提供一种有凝聚力的现代生态教育方法。 NSF IUSE：EHR计划支持研究和开发项目，以提高所有学生的STEM教育的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。