Biohealth Learning Lab and Makerspace for the Community

生物健康学习实验室和社区创客空间

• 批准号: 10228673
• 负责人: Anja Scholze
• 金额: $ 22.77万
• 依托单位: TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-04 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10228673
• 关键词: Awareness; Benefits and Risks; Biological Sciences; Biology; Biotechnology; Collaborations; Communities; Community Health Education; Complex; DNA; Development; Education; Educational Models; Effectiveness; Engineering; Environment; Evaluation; Exposure to; Fostering; Foundations; Future; General Population; Genetic; Health; Human; Individual; Institution; Instruction; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Medicine; Modeling; Modernization; Museums; Organism; Participant; Peer Review; Population Heterogeneity; Problem Solving; Process; Resources; STEM career; Science; Scientist; Societies; Students; Technology; Testing; Universities; Work; career; cohort; design; experience; formative assessment; innovation; iterative design; next generation; novel; novel strategies; prototype; scaffold; science education; skills; symposium; tool

Biology has become a powerful and revolutionary technology, uniquely poised to transform and propel innovation in the near future. The skills, tools, and implications of using living systems to engineer innovative solutions to human health and global challenges, however, are still largely foreign and inaccessible to the general public. The life sciences need new ways of effectively engaging diverse audiences in these complex and powerful fields. Bio-Tinkering Playground will leverage a longtime partnership between the Stanford University Department of Genetics and The Tech Museum of Innovation to explore and develop one such powerful new approach. The objective of Bio-Tinkering Playground is to create and test a groundbreaking type of museum space: a DIY community biology lab and bio-makerspace, complete with a unique repertoire of hands-on experiences. We will tackle the challenge of developing both open-ended bio-making activities and more scaffolded ones that, together, start to do for biology, biotech, and living systems what today's makerspaces have done for engineering. A combined Design Challenge Learning, making, and tinkering approach was chosen because of its demonstrated effectiveness at fostering confidence, creative capacity, and problem solving skills as well as engaging participants of diverse backgrounds. This educational model can potentially better keep pace with the emerging and quickly evolving landscape of biotech to better prepare young people for STEM careers and build the next generation of biotech and biomedical innovators. Experience development will be conducted using an iterative design process that incorporates prototyping and formative evaluation to land on a final cohort of novel, highly-vetted Bio-Tinkering Playground experience. In the end, the project will generate a wealth of resources and learnings to share with the broader science education field. Thus, the impacts of our foundational work can extend well beyond the walls of The Tech as we enable other educators and public institutions around the world to replicate our model for engagement with biology.

生物学已经成为一项强大的革命性技术，在不久的将来将独特地转变和推动创新。然而，使用生命系统为人类健康和全球挑战设计创新解决方案的技能、工具和影响在很大程度上仍然是陌生的，普通公众无法获得。生命科学需要新的方法，在这些复杂而强大的领域有效地吸引不同的受众。生物修补游乐场将利用斯坦福大学遗传学系和科技创新博物馆之间的长期合作伙伴关系来探索和开发一种如此强大的新方法。 生物修补游乐场的目标是创造和测试一个开创性的博物馆空间：一个DIY社区生物实验室和生物制造空间，以及一个独特的动手体验剧目。我们将应对挑战，既要发展开放式生物制造活动，又要发展更多脚手架活动，共同为生物、生物技术和生命系统做准备，就像今天的制造空间为工程所做的那样。选择设计挑战学习、制作和修补相结合的方法是因为它在培养信心、创造能力和解决问题的技能以及吸引不同背景的参与者方面表现出了有效性。这种教育模式有可能更好地跟上新兴和快速发展的生物技术格局的步伐，为年轻人为STEM职业生涯做好更好的准备，并培养下一代生物技术和生物医学创新者。 体验开发将使用迭代设计过程进行，该过程包括原型和形成性评估，以最终获得经过高度审查的新颖的生物修补游乐场体验。最终，该项目将产生丰富的资源和知识，与更广泛的科学教育领域分享。因此，我们的基础性工作的影响可以远远超出技术的范围，因为我们使世界各地的其他教育工作者和公共机构能够复制我们与生物学接触的模式。