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.

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