Using Interactive Video to Increase Science Literacy and Develop Higher Level Thinking Skills In Science and Non-Science Majors

本项目将实施一个交互式视频实验室 基于IBM和Macintosh计算机、CD-ROM和激光光盘 本科理科用放像机及影碟 教育它侧重于提高科学素养， 大学生的复杂性，包括重要的 非传统、妇女和少数民族学生人数 这些领域的代表性通常不足。教师将 在教学中加入互动视频技术， 以下领域：生物、化学和物理。设备 将给学生，包括小学和中学教师 和非理科专业的学生， 对于认证和学位完成，有机会 专注于批判性思维，因为它与科学研究有关： 制定和测试假设;解决问题;使 决策因为这项技术能够 重复实验，教师不能，否则做， 设备将使学生有更广泛的各种 实验室经验和多种机会， 比常规实验室更能假设、检验和修正 实验允许。它将构成一个更“用户- 对科学采取“友好”的态度，因为这将减轻人们的恐惧， 关于在实验室工作，特别是为了将来 教师，它将为他们提供积极学习策略的模型 和使用的技术，这是越来越广泛地提供在 堪萨斯城学区。

This project will implement an interactive video laboratory based on IBM and Macintosh computers, CD-ROM and laserdisc players and videodisc for use in undergraduate science education. It focuses on increasing scientific literacy and sophistication among undergraduates, including significant numbers of non-traditional, women and minority students who are typically underrepresented these fields. Faculty will incorporate interactive video technology into teaching in the following areas: biology, chemistry, and physics. The equipment will give students, including elementary and secondary teachers and non-science majors who need to meet science requirements for certification and degree-completion, the opportunity to focus on critical thinking as it relates to scientific study: formulating and testing hypotheses; solving problems; making decisions. Because of the ability of the technology to replicate experiments which faculty could not otherwise do, the equipment will enable students to have a wider variety of laboratory experiences and multiple opportunities to hypothesize, test and revise than conventional laboratory experiments would allow. It would constitute a more "user- friendly" approach to science because it would alleviate fears about working in a laboratory and, particularly for future teachers, it would model for them active learning strategies and use of technology which is becoming widely available in the Kansas City school districts.