Pandem-Sim: Saving the World with Biology

Pandem-Sim：用生物学拯救世界

• 批准号: 9255327
• 负责人: Charles Arthur Wood
• 金额: $ 10.8万
• 依托单位: WHEELING JESUIT UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9255327
• 关键词: Address; Anatomy; Antiviral Agents; Awareness; Biological Sciences; Biology; Blood; Career Choice; Case Based Learning; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Classification; Collection; Common Core; Communicable Diseases; Development; Disease; Educational Curriculum; Educational Technology; Educational process of instructing; Emergency Situation; Epidemic; Epidemiologist; Epidemiology; Evaluation; Funding; Goals; Government; Grant; Health; Healthcare; High School Student; Human; Immune response; Immune system; Immunity; Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype; Intelligence; Interview; Knowledge; Learning; Learning Module; Life; Maps; Microbiology; Modeling; Participant; Pathogenicity; Pathology; Patients; Physiology; Population; Problem-Based Learning; Program Evaluation; Public Health; Recruitment Activity; Research; Resources; Risk; Running; STEM career; Schools; Science; Services; Slide; Structure; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Technology; Testing; Tissue Sample; Tissues; Travel; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Vaccination; Vaccines; Videoconferences; Videoconferencing; Viral; Virus; Work; Youth; base; career; career awareness; design; effectiveness research; evaluation/testing; evidence base; experience; flu; handheld mobile device; high school; improved; innovative technologies; interest; literacy; medical specialist; meetings; microscopic imaging; new technology; pathogen; pedagogy; prevent; programs; science education; simulation; symposium; teacher; tool; transmission process; vaccine development; virology; virtual; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Educational Technologies (CET) at Wheeling Jesuit University proposes to create an educational simulation called Pandem-Sim, during which classrooms of high school students act as CDC and NIH teams to investigate possible epidemics including a mysterious new H5N1-derived flu strain that has adapted to infect humans. Student pathology teams order tests of (virtual) tissues and blood from patients to characterize this strain and to determine the type of antiviral vaccination that needs to be produced. Epidemic Intelligence Service field teams interview patients, searching for Patient Zero, and investigate the disease trajectory. Other public health teams prepare flu emergency bulletins to inform the public how to minimize the risk of becoming infected and passing it to others. Students issue Flu Emergency Alerts to advise governments on possible travel and other restrictions. This sim takes place during a live 90-minute videoconference led by a CET educator, the Chief Epidemiologist, who provides guidance and requests analyses from students. The live simulation culminates a three-week curriculum supplement that expands upon the National Science Education Standards and the emerging Common Core Science Standards to provide enhanced infectious disease content and associated biologic concepts for classrooms of students in grades 9 to 12. The project goals are to (1) improve science education, (2) increase science literacy, (3) promote career awareness, especially among underrepresented and underserved youth, (4) investigate if Pandem-Sim and an iPad app cause gains in relevant awareness, knowledge and career interest, and (5) to be widely used. Existing infectious disease material from prior NIH, SEPA and CDC programs will be incorporated into the curriculum, and new activities, such as problem-based learning and career components, will be developed. For the growing number of schools using iPads we will create enhanced activities that take advantage of iPad affordances to make interactions more lively and realistic. As examples, students will use Google Maps to track the occurrences of flu cases, view videos of patient interviews, match images of microscope slides of new flu tissue samples with known flu strains, run stochastic models of epidemic spread, and complete auto-corrected embedded self-tests to allow students to track their own understanding. For schools not using iPads a website will provide most of these activities. Professional development will be offered by video-conferences and online resources to prepare teachers to understand the content as well as the iPad and live sim tools. Pandem-Sim's Advisory Board includes three epidemiology medical specialists and an experienced teacher. The evaluation will involve 3000 students in 120 classrooms in multiple states. The CET conducts nearly 800 live sims a year which many teachers and districts build into their teaching strategies to meet 21st century learning goals. Because schools pay for each live sim, Pandem-Sim will be sustained beyond the period of grant funding.

描述（由申请人提供）：惠灵耶稣会大学的教育技术中心（CET）提议创建一个名为“大流行模拟”的教育模拟，在这个模拟中，高中学生的教室扮演CDC和NIH团队的角色，调查可能的流行病，包括一种神秘的新型h5n1衍生流感病毒，它已经适应了感染人类。学生病理学小组要求对患者的（虚拟）组织和血液进行测试，以确定该菌株的特征，并确定需要生产的抗病毒疫苗的类型。流行病情报局现场小组采访患者，寻找零号患者，并调查疾病轨迹。其他公共卫生小组准备流感紧急公告，告知公众如何将感染和传染给他人的风险降到最低。学生们发布流感紧急警报，建议政府采取可能的旅行和其他限制措施。这个模拟活动是在一个90分钟的视频会议中进行的，由一位CET教育工作者，首席流行病学家领导，他提供指导并要求学生进行分析。