Multimedia Lessons for Interactive Whiteboards

描述（由申请人提供）：在K-12教室中，交互式白板（IWBs）的购买和使用急剧增长。这些产品促进了引人入胜的教学的使用，可以解决各种学习风格，并在增强理解和记忆方面证明了结果。然而，目前缺乏准备好的、高质量的、基于标准的科学内容供iwb使用。此外，教师缺乏必要的时间、经验和资源来自行开发IWB科学课程。我们将通过教师焦点小组和学校试点测试（具体目标1）来评估我们的IWB原型课程模块“动植物细胞结构与功能”的有效性。我们将收集和分析详细的反馈，这将告知我们需要修改的软件和教训。然后，我们将创建和试点测试两个额外的IWB课程模块（具体目标2）。我们的IWB课程模块将提供完整的、预先打包的、随时可用的产品——包括互动科学课程的软件和内容。任何拥有交互式白板的教师都可以使用该软件，无论其品牌如何。这些互动式课程也将通过CD和互联网提供，供任何计算机使用。我们将在纽约州罗彻斯特市的中学生命科学课堂上，通过教师焦点小组和校内试点测试来测试和评估软件和附带的课程。我们将与中学科学教师进行焦点小组讨论，评估软件和课程模块的功能、特点和好处。然后，我们将在城市、郊区和农村的中学科学课堂上对IWB课程进行试点测试。我们将收集和分析来自焦点小组和在课堂上试点测试IWB课程的教师的定量和定性评估数据。我们将根据教师的反馈来完善和编辑所需的软件和课程组件，以确保它们满足教师和学生的需求。这个提议的项目意义重大，因为它将对教师有效使用交互式白板的能力产生积极影响，并扩大这项技术对学生表现的影响。这个拟议的项目是创新的，因为在SBIR第一阶段项目中开发的软件和互动课程将比目前可用的iwb教学科学教育产品有很大的改进。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There has been a dramatic growth in the purchase and use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) for K-12 classrooms. These products promote the use of engaging instruction that can address various styles of learning and have demonstrated results in terms of enhanced comprehension and retention. However, there is currently a lack of prepared, high quality, standards-based science content for use on IWBs. Furthermore, teachers lack the necessary time, experience and resources to develop IWB science lessons on their own. We will evaluate the effectiveness of our prototype IWB lesson module, Plant & Animal Cell Structure & Function, through a teacher focus group followed in-school pilot testing (Specific Aim 1). We will collect and analyze detailed feedback which will inform us of modifications that are needed to the software and the lessons. We will then create and pilot test two additional IWB lesson modules (Specific Aim 2). Our IWB curriculum modules will provide complete, prepackaged, ready-to-use products - including the software and the content for interactive science lessons. The software will be usable by any teacher who has an interactive whiteboard, regardless of the brand. These interactive lessons will also be available on CD and via the Internet, for use on any computer. We will test and evaluate the software and accompanying lessons through teacher focus groups and in-school pilot testing in middle school life science classes in the Rochester, NY area. We will conduct focus groups with middle school science teachers to evaluate the functionality, features and benefits of the software and lesson modules. We will then pilot test the IWB lessons in middle school science classrooms spanning urban, suburban and rural demographics. We will collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from the focus groups and from teachers who pilot test the IWB lessons in their classrooms. We will use teacher feedback to refine and edit the software and lesson components as needed to assure they meet the needs of teachers and their students. This proposed project is significant because it will have a positive impact on teachers' abilities to effectively use interactive whiteboards and expand the impact of this technology on student performance. This proposed project is innovative because the software and interactive lessons to be developed during this SBIR Phase I project will be a vast improvement over the educational products currently available for teaching science with IWBs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project is extremely relevant to public health both in terms of the educational software platform developed for use with interactive whiteboards as well as the associated lesson content. This educational software for interactive whiteboards will allow for engaging activities that are especially important for the instruction of complex topics pertaining to life science and human health, which require interactivity and inquiry. The lesson content will promote enhanced student interest and understanding of the human body and allow students to become better informed concerning decisions involving their health and fighting disease.