VISUALIZING ADDICTION: IMAGING FOR SECONDARY SCIENCE ED.

国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）的科学教育和药物滥用伙伴关系奖励计划（SEDAPA）的目标是“……支持开发模范项目和材料，使在职科学家加强公众对与药物滥用有关的研究的理解，并鼓励年轻人进入科学事业，特别是药物滥用研究”（NIDA, 1993）。SEDAPA直接支持NIDA改善药物滥用和成瘾预防、治疗和政策的使命（NIDA， 1998年），并使该研究所在教育青年关于使用成瘾物质的风险和影响方面发挥中心作用。教育中的图像处理中心（CIPE）建议在NIDA的产品中增加可视化成瘾，这是一套用于九年级到十二年级科学教育的补充教学材料。可视化成瘾将使学生积极学习神经成像科学。成瘾研究的这一分支正在彻底改变科学家、医疗从业者和社会服务专业人员对成瘾的看法。在研究团队中工作，学生将模拟和复制nida支持的科学家进行的神经影像学研究。因为学生们将与来自实际研究课题的图像一起工作，课程的影响将是直接和具体的。可视化成瘾将为学生提供一种方法来更新他们与科学的关系，提高他们的科学技术素养，改变他们对药物使用和滥用的看法，并想象自己的职业是药物滥用研究人员。这些材料将被打包在一个笔记本里，里面有十堂课，准备在课堂上实施。将开发一种模块格式，以便课程可以用于传统的生物学课程，高级生物学研究课程，或希望将神经成像科学内容添加到课程格式的健康教育工作者。课程将与相关的教育标准相关联。每本笔记本都将包括一个载有数字图像和课程所需软件的CD-ROM， CIPE建立的传播系统将通过互联网、全国会议和电话订单在全国范围内分发材料。在国家科学教育工作者会议和区域讲习班场址举行的专业发展讲习班将支持教育工作者实施成瘾可视化。一项全面的评估计划将确定学生在课堂上使用视觉成瘾所获得的成果。

The goal of the Science Education and Drug Abuse Partnership Award program (SEDAPA) at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is to "...support the development of model programs and materials that engage working scientists in enhancing public understanding of research related to drug abuse and encourage young people to enter careers in science, particularly drug abuse research" (NIDA 1993). SEDAPA directly supports NIDA's mission of improving drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment and policy (NIDA 1998) and places the institute in a central role of educating youth about the risks and effects of using addictive substances. The Center for Image Processing in Education (CIPE) proposes to add to NIDA's offerings Visualizing Addiction, a set of supplementary instructional materials for science education in grades nine through twelve. Visualizing Addiction will involve students in active learning about neuroimaging science. This branch of addiction research is revolutionizing how scientists, medical practitioners, and social services professionals view addiction. Working in research teams, the students will simulate and replicate neuroimaging research conducted by NIDA-supported scientists. Because the students will be working with images derived from actual research subjects, the impact of the curriculum will be immediate and concrete. Visualizing Addiction will provide students with a way to renew their relationship with science, improve their science and technology literacy, alter their perceptions of drug use and abuse, and imagine themselves in careers as drug abuse researchers. The materials will be packaged in a notebook of ten lessons ready to implement in the classroom. A modular format will be developed so that the lessons may be used in a traditional biology class, a senior biology research class, or by health educators who wish to add neuroimaging science content to their curricular format. The lessons will be correlated with relevant education standards. A CD-ROM of digital images and software needed for the lessons will be included with each notebook CIPE's established dissemination system will provide nation-wide distribution of the materials via the Internet, national conferences, and telephone orders. Educators will be supported in the implementation of Visualizing Addiction by professional development workshops held at national meetings of science educators and at regional workshop sites. A comprehensive evaluation program will identify student outcomes gained from use of Visualizing Addiction in the classroom.