Pandem-Sim: Saving the World with Biology

描述(申请人提供)：惠灵耶稣会大学教育技术中心(CET)提议创建一种名为Pandem-Sim的教育模拟，在此期间，高中生的教室充当CDC和NIH团队，调查可能的流行病，包括一种神秘的新型H5N1衍生流感毒株，它已经适应于感染人类。学生病理小组下令对患者的(虚拟)组织和血液进行测试，以确定这种菌株的特征，并确定需要生产的抗病毒疫苗的类型。流行病情报服务现场小组采访患者，搜索零号患者，并调查疾病轨迹。其他公共卫生团队准备流感紧急公告，告诉公众如何将感染和传染给他人的风险降至最低。学生发布流感紧急警报，就可能的旅行和其他限制向政府提供建议。这次模拟考试是在CET教育工作者、首席流行病学家主持的一场90分钟的现场视频会议上进行的，他提供指导并要求学生进行分析。 现场模拟是为期三周的课程补充的高潮，该补充课程以国家科学教育标准和新兴的共同核心科学标准为基础，为9至12年级的学生提供更多的传染病内容和相关的生物概念。该项目的目标是(1)改善科学教育，(2)提高科学素养，(3)提高职业意识，特别是在代表性不足和服务不足的年轻人中，(4)调查Pandem-Sim和iPad应用程序是否有助于提高相关意识、知识和职业兴趣，以及(5)得到广泛应用。 以前NIH、SEPA和CDC项目中的现有传染病材料将被纳入课程，并将开发新的活动，如以问题为基础的学习和职业组成部分。对于越来越多使用iPad的学校，我们将创建增强的活动，利用iPad的负担能力，使互动更加生动和现实。例如，学生将使用谷歌地图跟踪流感病例的发生情况，查看患者访谈的视频，将新流感组织样本的显微镜幻灯片图像与已知流感病毒株进行匹配，运行疫情传播的随机模型，并完成自动更正的嵌入式自我测试，以允许学生跟踪自己的理解。对于不使用iPad的学校，网站将提供大部分此类活动。专业发展将通过视频会议和在线资源提供，以帮助教师了解课程内容以及iPad和live sim工具。 Pandem-Sim的咨询委员会包括三名流行病学医学专家和一名经验丰富的教师。评估将涉及多个州120个教室的3000名学生。CET每年举办近800场现场模拟考试，许多教师和学区将这些现场模拟考试纳入他们的教学策略，以满足21世纪的学习目标。由于学校为每个在线SIM卡支付费用，Pandem-SIM卡将在赠款资助期后继续存在。

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.