SCIENCE TEACHERS WORKSHOPS FOR COMPUTER TRAINING

描述：(改编自调查人员摘要)产生 目前在中学注册的生物医学科学家将是 需要轻松、自信地使用计算机作为数据工具 复杂生物现象的收集、数据处理和建模。 为了增加未来生物医学科学家的队伍，他们能够使用 计算机在这种方式下，这些学生的老师一定有一种感觉 对使用计算机作为科学工具的信心。对.的使用 计算机在中学教育中的应用正在迅速增长；然而， 教师对它的使用的熟悉程度并没有像 把电脑放在教室里。 这项提案有四个主要目标，旨在解决这些问题。 第一个目标是为教师提供一个机会 熟悉最新的计算机技术，并 提高他们利用现有计算机的能力 在他们的学校里都有。第二个是为他们提供 有机会专注于个别科学学科。这次培训 将使教师能够明智地选择适当的软件以 使用学校已有的计算机在教案中使用。 第三，将帮助教师适应现有的科学 简单的数据分析软件，让学生学会使用 用于分析实际实验室数据的计算机。最后，新的， 最先进的设备将向老师们展示，他们 将暴露在开发中的软件中，因此他们将成为 了解教育计算的未来趋势。 该计划将集中于整个科学系的教职员工从一个 单一的中学。调查人员发现，同时发生的 来自一所学校的一群教师的指导产生了 互动和自力更生的单位，能够使用和操作计算机在 教室。这最后一个目标包括以下附加好处 加强发现和科学教学的跨学科性质。 这项建议的基础是实施一项试点方案，即 通过卡内基梅隆大学的合作和协调成为可能 霍华德基金会资助的大学和匹兹堡公立学校 休斯医学院和宾夕法尼亚州的新未来计划。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from investigator's abstract) The generation of biomedical scientists currently enrolled in secondary schools will be required to use the computer with ease and confidence as a tool for data collection, data manipulation and modeling of complex biological phenomena. To increase that pool of future biomedical scientists who are able to use computers in this fashion, the teachers of these students must have a sense of confidence in the use of computers as scientific tools. The use of computers in secondary education is growing rapidly; however, the familiarity of the teachers with its use has not grown at the same pace as has the placing of the computers in the classroom. This proposal has four major objectives designed to address these issues. The first objective is to present the teachers with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the latest in computer technology and to improve their ability to make use of the computers which they already have available in their schools. The second is to provide them with the opportunity to focus on individual scientific disciplines. This training will enable teachers to make educated choices of appropriate software to use in lesson plans using computers already available in their schools. Third, the teachers will be assisted in adapting existing scientific software for simple data analysis so that students can learn to use computers to analyze actual laboratory data. Finally, new, state-of-the-art equipment will be demonstrated to the teachers and they will be exposed to software under development so that they will become aware of future trends in educational computing. This program will focus on the faculty of entire science departments from a single secondary school. The investigaors have found that the simultaneous instruction of a group of teachers from a single school produces an interactive and self-reliant unit able to use and operate computers in the classroom. This last objective includes the additional benefit of enhancing the interdisciplinary nature of discovery and science teaching. This proposal is based upon the implementation of a pilot program, made possible by the cooperation and coordination between Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Public Schools with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the New Futures Program of Pennsylvania.