iNeuron: A contemporary platform for neuroscience education

iNeuron：当代神经科学教育平台

• 批准号: 8648275
• 负责人: JANET M DUBINSKY
• 金额: $ 53.93万
• 依托单位: ADVENTIUM ENTERPRISES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-02 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8648275
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adventium Labs and the University of Minnesota (UMN) propose to develop a participatory educational toolkit and curriculum to teach neuroscience and mental health concepts via exploratory and investigative learning that integrates nervous system function with engineering, technology and mathematics concepts. iNeuron" models neuronal, synaptic, and circuit functions, and will provide an engaging, hands-on, problem-solving learning environment using mobile computing devices that are growing more common in classrooms. This project will combine development of 1) a flexible, multimodal software architecture integrating classroom level and distributed classroom learning environments hosted on multiple, interactive hand-held devices with centralized management and coordination and 2) an immersive story-based set of neuroscience challenges to teach key concepts by transforming a set of handheld electronic devices into functionally connected neurons. By engaging in solving these challenges, students will deepen their understanding of how their own brains control body and cognitive functions and change with learning. Subsequently, the students' understanding that they are in charge of changing their own brains is expected to motivate learners to apply themselves in school. We showed in Phase 1 that given the high motivational value associated with using up-to-date technology, an interactive neuroscience-based application for mobile devices (iNeuron) is an attractive and practical strategy for disseminating neuroscience concepts. Phase 2 builds upon this established foundation to further improve student learning outcomes. The results of the proposed research will deploy an easy-to-use, engaging, and teacher-customizable platform for teaching neuroscience curricula, including the new Next Generation Science Standards. Adventium has partnered with neuroscientists from the University of Minnesota and a software development company to develop a general-purpose framework to teach STEM subjects using a mobile device in the form of a teaching aid, providing collaborative technology-based environments to teach complex concepts. Phase 2 will deliver the iNeuron application running on iPods and iPads, a teacher dashboard application that allows teachers to customize content to classrooms and monitor while interacting with students as they complete challenges, and information presentation, interaction models, and game strategies that encourage effective and efficient learning.

描述（由申请人提供）：Adventium实验室和明尼苏达大学（UMN）提议开发一个参与式教育工具包和课程，通过探索性和研究性学习，将神经系统功能与工程、技术和数学概念相结合，教授神经科学和心理健康概念。“神经元”模型神经元，突触和电路功能，并将提供一个引人入胜的，动手，解决问题的学习环境，使用移动计算设备，在课堂上越来越普遍。该项目将结合开发1)一个灵活的、多模式的软件架构，集成课堂级和分布式课堂学习环境，托管在多个交互式手持设备上，集中管理和协调；2)一套基于沉浸式故事的神经科学挑战，通过将一组手持电子设备转换为功能连接的神经元来教授关键概念。通过参与解决这些挑战，学生将加深对自己的大脑如何控制身体和认知功能以及如何随着学习而变化的理解。随后，学生们认识到他们负责改变自己的大脑，这有望激励学习者在学校里全身心投入。我们在第一阶段表明，考虑到与使用最新技术相关的高激励价值，基于移动设备的交互式神经科学应用程序（iNeuron）是传播神经科学概念的一种有吸引力和实用的策略。第二阶段在此基础上进一步提高学生的学习成果。拟议的研究结果将部署一个易于使用、引人入胜和教师可定制的平台，用于教授神经科学课程，包括新的下一代科学标准。Adventium与明尼苏达大学的神经科学家和一家软件开发公司合作，开发了一种通用框架，用于使用移动设备以教辅助的形式教授STEM科目，提供基于协作技术的环境来教授复杂的概念。第二阶段将提供在ipod和ipad上运行的iNeuron应用程序，这是一个教师仪表板应用程序，允许教师为教室定制内容，并在与学生完成挑战时进行交互，以及信息展示，交互模型和游戏策略，以鼓励有效和高效的学习。