Stimulating Young Neuroscientists And Physiologists in Science Education - Phase

在科学教育中激励年轻神经科学家和生理学家 - 阶段

• 批准号: 8453850
• 负责人: Jared Jackson
• 金额: $ 59.96万
• 依托单位: IS3D, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-15 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8453850
• 关键词: Action Potentials; Address; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Area; Benchmarking; Brain; Brain region; Case Study; Cells; Collaborations; Computer software; Consultations; Data Analyses; Disease; Education; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Environment; Epilepsy; Evaluation; Failure; Feedback; Fostering; Goals; Habits; Health; Heart; Ion Channel; Knowledge; Learning; Ligands; Marketing; Membrane Potentials; Membrane Transport Proteins; Mind; Myasthenia Gravis; Nerve; Neurosciences; Parkinson Disease; Phase; Play; Problem Solving; Research Design; Research Personnel; Resources; Role; Science; Scientist; Scorpions; Second Messenger Systems; Signal Transduction; Students; Synapses; Synaptic Transmission; System; Teaching Materials; Technology; Testing; Thinking; Transmembrane Transport; United States; Work; base; career; combat; design; experience; flexibility; high school; innovation; innovative technologies; interest; meetings; nervous system disorder; neuromuscular; programs; prototype; public health relevance; receptor; scaffold; science education; skills; success; teacher; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project will develop a suite of innovative learning experiences that will engage high school students in neuroscience and thereby increase their interest in possible careers in this area. This will be achieved by creating highly interactive and immersive products developed in partnership with neuroscience experts, science teachers, and science education researchers. These products will be scaffolded, content-rich and inquiry-driven videogames, interactive modules and interactive case studies that will challenge students to solve real-world problems. This will help students develop the scientific habits of mind that characterize scientists, namely making observations, analyzing data, generating hypotheses, and reaching conclusions. In Phase I, we prototyped two games, Brain Runner and Against The Gradient, developed a suite of interactive guides for membrane transporters, membrane potential, action potentials and synaptic transmission, and a 100-page iBook detailing how ligands, receptors and second messenger systems work. In collaboration with our neuroscience experts, we also produced the design documents for four interactive case studies that have at their heart, the application of key scientific practices. These case studies will focus on the concepts identified by teachers that are critical failure points for their students, namely membrane transport mechanisms (Scorpion Envenomation), membrane potential and actions potentials (Epilepsy), nerve-to-nerve (Parkinson's disease) and neuromuscular (Myasthenia Gravis) synaptic transmission. Key components of the case studies will be the interactive modules and other resources that will help scaffold the learning experience for students. We will also create specific versions of Against the Gradient for each of the core concepts covered in our interactive case studies. The Specific Aims of Phase II are: Aim 1a & 2a: Develop, field-test and refine interactive modules and case studies regarding membrane transport, membrane potential and action potentials, nerve-to-nerve and neuromuscular synaptic transmission. Aim 1b & 2b: Develop, field-test and refine Against the Gradient modules that address membrane transport, membrane potential and action potentials, nerve-to-nerve and neuromuscular synaptic transmission. Aim 3: Develop and validate assessment items regarding membrane transport, membrane potential, action potentials and synaptic transmission. Aim 4: Determine the effect of the interactive modules and case studies on student understanding of membrane transport, membrane potential, action potentials and synaptic transmission. Aim 5: Prepare the interactive modules, games, case studies and iBooks for product launches. Completion of this Phase II project will result in a suite of effective products for neuroscience education, which wil be brought to market in partnership with a major distributor of science education products.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目将开发一系列创新的学习经验，这些学习经验将吸引高中生的神经科学，从而增加他们对这一领域可能职业的兴趣。这将通过创建高度互动和 与神经科学专家，科学教师和科学教育研究人员合作开发的沉浸式产品。这些产品将被脚手架，内容丰富和询问驱动的电子游戏，交互式模块和互动案例研究，这些案例将挑战学生解决现实世界中的问题。这将有助于学生培养特征科学家的科学习惯，即进行观察，分析数据，产生假设并得出结论。在第一阶段，我们原型进行了两款游戏：大脑跑步者和反对梯度，开发了一套用于膜转运蛋白的交互式指南，膜电位，动作电位和突触传播，以及100页的iBook详细介绍了配体，受体和第二嵌件系统的工作方式。与我们的神经科学专家合作，我们还为四个互动案例研究制作了设计文档，这些案例研究是关键科学实践的应用。这些案例研究将集中在教师确定的概念上，这些概念是学生的关键失败点，即膜运输机制（蝎子增生），膜潜力和动作潜力（癫痫），神经与神经性（帕金森氏病）和神经肌肉（神经肌肉症）（疗法症）突触传播。案例研究的关键组成部分将是互动模块和其他资源，这些模块和其他资源将有助于为学生提供学习经验。我们还将为互动案例研究中涵盖的每个核心概念的梯度创建特定版本。 II期的具体目的是：AIM 1A和2A：开发，现场测试和完善的交互模块以及有关膜传输，膜电位和动作电位，神经到神经和神经肌肉突触传播的案例研究。 AIM 1B＆2B：针对针对膜运输，膜电位和动作电位，神经向神经和神经肌肉突触传播的梯度模块的开发，现场测试和完善。目标3：开发和验证有关膜运输，膜电位，动作电位和突触传播的评估项目。目标4：确定互动模块和案例研究对学生对膜运输，膜电位，动作电位和突触传播的影响。 AIM 5：准备产品发布的交互式模块，游戏，案例研究和iBooks。该第二阶段项目的完成将导致一套有效的神经科学教育产品，将与科学教育产品的主要分销商合作将其推向市场。