A multimedia toolkit for teaching environmental health literacy topics related to Superfund sites

用于教授与超级基金网站相关的环境健康素养主题的多媒体工具包

• 批准号: 9912551
• 负责人: ROBERT J LEVINE
• 金额: $ 14.88万
• 依托单位: ARCHIEMD, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-18 至 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9912551
• 关键词: 3-Dimensional; Active Learning; Affect; Age; Attention; Awareness; Behavior; Benefits and Risks; Cancer Etiology; Case Study; Chronic Disease; Communities; Complex; Comprehension; Computer Graphics; Data; Data Set; Databases; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Environmental Exposure; Environmental Health; Environmental Risk Factor; Exercise; Foundations; Frequencies; General Population; Half-Life; Hand; Health; High School Student; Human; Immersion; Individual; Isotopes; Judgment; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Link; Location; Mathematics; Medical; Modeling; Multimedia; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Outcome; Patients; Pattern; Personal Satisfaction; Phase; Population; Procedures; Quality of life; Radiation; Radioactive; Resources; Risk; Risk Estimate; Risk Management; Sampling; Science; Secondary to; Severities; Site; Smoking; Source; Students; Technology; Text; Time; Visual; base; behavior change; computer game; design; disorder risk; educational atmosphere; experience; health literacy; improved; innovation; interactive multimedia; interest; literacy; mathematical ability; operation; programs; prototype; risk minimization; simulation environment; skills; smartphone Application; superfund site; tool

Abstract Human health and the environment are intimately intertwined. By building literacy around environmental health risks, individuals and communities will be better able to critically access related information and to make judgments and informed decisions to maintain or improve quality of life. However, low levels of science literacy and numeracy are common among lay individuals and can act as a barrier to understanding basic data and quantitative risk information. ArchieMD proposes to develop an education environmental health literacy (EHL) tool for secondary and post-secondary students, in the form of an interactive multimedia smart phone application that provides both a means of acquiring foundational environmental health content knowledge as well as written, numerical, and analytical skills essential to EHL. Because students are most likely to be engaged and experience better learning when they can make relevant connections between the material at hand and their own lives, the proposed application will allow students to identify a superfund site in their vicinity, and to build EHL around the site of their choosing. This will include assessing health risks associated with environmental exposures that relate to that site, as well as how to manage these risks. The app, supported by layered interactive visuals, will include case study scenarios, data sets and risk analysis tools that can be used to interpret data, generate a risk estimate, and make informed decisions. Innovative visual models (“risk severity pictographs”) will be developed to expand upon traditional pictographs to communicate environment exposure risks in accessible ways. Information will be presented in a non-linear fashion to adapt to the needs of the user. This interactive approach is designed to engage the user and improve learning comprehension. To demonstrate proof-of-concept, a prototype application will be developed in Phase I. Specifically, ArchieMD will: 1) Develop content to support acquisition of EHL, including curriculum and interactive exercises with connection to national education standards; 2) Build out an initial multimedia prototype application, including innovative visual models and age appropriate tools to view and analyze data; 3) Develop the ability to access and search a database of superfund sites from within the app; and 4) Evaluate the efficacy of the app in supporting EHL acquisition by providing equivalent information to secondary students, either in the form of standard text-based materials or ArchieMD's interactive multimedia application, and comparing student outcomes. By incorporating environmental health concepts into a hands-on active learning format that stimulates student interest and has a clear connection to national education standards, the proposed innovation will build literacy around environmental health risks. The app can also be adapted for use by the general public.

摘要 人类健康与环境密切相关。通过围绕环境健康开展扫盲， 个人和社区将能够更好地批判性地获取相关信息， 判断和明智的决定，以维持或改善生活质量。然而，低水平的科学素养 和计算能力在外行人中很常见，可能成为理解基本数据的障碍， 量化风险信息。ArchieMD建议开发教育环境健康素养（EHL） 以交互式多媒体智能手机应用程序的形式为中学生和大专学生提供的工具 它既提供了获取基础环境健康内容知识的手段，也提供了书面的， 数值计算和分析技能，对EHL至关重要。因为学生最有可能参与和体验 当他们能把手头的材料和自己的生活联系起来时， 拟议的应用程序将允许学生在他们附近找到一个超级基金网站，并围绕EHL建立 他们选择的地点。这将包括评估与环境接触有关的健康风险， 与该网站相关的信息，以及如何管理这些风险。该应用程序由分层交互式视觉效果支持， 包括案例研究方案、数据集和风险分析工具，这些工具可用于解释数据、生成风险 估计，并作出明智的决定。将开发创新的视觉模型（“风险严重程度象形图”） 扩大传统象形文字的范围，以便于使用的方式传达环境接触风险。 信息将以非线性方式呈现，以适应用户的需要。这种互动方式 旨在吸引用户并提高学习理解力。为了演示概念验证， 原型应用将在第一阶段开发。具体而言，ArchieMD将：1）开发内容以支持 获得人道主义法，包括与国民教育有关的课程和互动练习 标准; 2）建立一个初始的多媒体原型应用程序，包括创新的视觉模型和年龄 适当的工具来查看和分析数据; 3）开发访问和搜索超级基金数据库的能力 应用程序内的网站;以及4）通过提供以下内容，评估应用程序在支持EHL收购方面的有效性 同等的信息给中学生，无论是在标准的文本为基础的材料或ArchieMD的形式 交互式多媒体应用程序，并比较学生的成果。通过将环境健康 概念转化为动手主动学习的形式，激发学生的兴趣，并有一个明确的联系， 根据国家教育标准，拟议的创新将围绕环境健康风险开展扫盲工作。的 应用程序也可以被修改以供公众使用。