The Internet as Knowledge Integration Partner: Improving Science Learning

9453861林虽然互联网提供了巨大的科学信息和经验资源，但即使是专家也经常报告说，在参与网络活动时感到困惑、沮丧和效率低下。人类指南和互联网电子指南有哪些有希望发挥的作用？该项目将探索人力和电子资源、团队和个人探索之间的权衡，以及短期和长期利益之间的权衡。互联网工具如何鼓励学生不断发展他们的想法，并将信息整合到更抽象、更全面的解释或模型中？随着信息高速公路到达家庭、学校和工作场所，我们寻求为那些在完成科学课程后很长一段时间仍将继续使用它的学生做好准备。我们如何帮助学生解决个人相关的问题，培养坚实的科学理解基础，继续探索科学问题？该项目将利用互联网参与者创造创新的方法，极大地改善科学家的贡献和教育工作者的贡献。该项目将记录特定的解决方案，并确定利用这一令人惊叹的资源的广泛战略。该项目将研究鼓励学习者链接和连接想法而不是孤立它们的解决方案，并允许学生解决相关的个人引人注目的问题，而不是进行练习。项目联网工具将建立在马赛克和万维网的基础上，以利用互联网上的科学信息。这些工具将帮助教师设计利用互联网信息的活动，指导学生完成项目，并允许来自互联网各地的学生共同讨论他们感兴趣的话题。这个项目的一个中心研究问题涉及每种类型的用户需要什么样的指导来组织知识，包括那些自主的用户和那些不自主的用户。***

9453861 Linn Although the Internet offers a vast resource of scientific information and experiences, even experts regularly report confusion, frustration, and inefficiency when participating in network activities. What are promising roles of human and electronic guides to the Internet? The project will explore tradeoffs between human and electronic resources, group and individual exploration, as well as between immediate and long-term benefits. How can Internet tools encourage students to continuously build on their ideas and integrate information into more abstract, comprehensive explanations or models? As the information highway reaches homes, schools, and the workplace we seek to prepare students who will continue to use it long after they complete their science courses. How can we help students solve personally relevant problems, develop a firm foundation of science understanding, and continue to explore scientific questions? The project will draw on the Internet participants to create innovative approaches that dramatically improve what scientists can contribute and what educators can deliver. The project will document particular solutions as well as identify broad strategies to capitalize on this amazing resource. The project will research solutions that encourage learners to link and connect ideas rather than to isolate them and that allow students to solve relevant, personally compelling problems rather than perform exercises. Project networking tools will build on Mosaic and World Wide Web to take advantage of the science information on the Internet. The tools will help teachers design activities that draw on Internet information, guide students as they complete projects, and allow students from all over the Internet to jointly discuss topics that interest them. A central research question for this project concerns the sort of guidance each type of user needs to organize knowledge including users who are autonomous as well as those who are not. ***