Turning Information into Knowledge: Hypermodels for Science Education

9553438霍维茨这个为期36个月的项目评估了科学教育软件的新范例--超级模型--的教育效果。这包括将计算机表示与自然界中相应的对象和过程相关联的多媒体和动画。GenScope是一个用于研究遗传学的原型超级模型，目前正在开发中。它支持在DNA、染色体、有机体、系谱和种群五个水平上的开放式探索，从而在分子生物学、细胞生物学、生理学、孟德尔遗传和种群遗传学中得到应用。GenScope模型。该项目的目标是展示超级模型技术作为传统教科书和讲座方法的补充的教育效果，并实施必要的工具、协议和标准，以促进研究人员、教师、课程开发人员和学生创建其他方法。该项目提供联网支持，以共享数据、部分模型和完整模型。除了多媒体和网络模型方面的一些技术成果外，该项目还将研究多层次超级模型对个人学生理解的影响。“无缝”层次允许学生深入探究为什么某些事情会在越来越多的基础层次上发生，最终深入到分子层面。相反，学生可以观察影响，并通过从分子到最普遍的群体的更高层次，从具体情况到更一般的情况进行概括。这个项目将确定哪些内容和推理技能是相关的，应该在研究中进行研究。它将决定这些中的哪一个“引出了理解的哪些组成部分”。

9553438 Horwitz This 36 month project assesses the educational effectiveness of a new paradigm for science education software, the hypermodel. This includes multimedia and animation relating computer representations to corresponding objects and processes in nature. GenScope, a prototype hypermodel for investigating genetics, is currently under development. It supports open-ended exploration at five levels: DNA, chromosomes, organism, pedigree and population thus having applications in molecular biology, cellular biology, physiology, Mendelian inheritance, and population genetics. The GenScope models. The goal of this project is to demonstrate the educational effectiveness of the hypermodel technology as a complement to the traditional textbook and lecture approach and to implement the tools, protocols, and standards necessary to facilitate the creation of others by researchers, teachers, curriculum developers, and students. The project provides networking support to share data, parts of models and full models. In addition to some technical gains in multimedia and networked models, the project will examine the impact of the multi-level hypermodel on individual student's understanding. The "seamless" levels allow students to delve into why something happens on more and more fundamental levels, ultimately down to the molecular. Conversely, students can look at the impacts and generalize from the specific to more general cases by moving up levels from the molecular to the most general, populations. This project will define which content and reasoning skills are pertinent and should be studied in the research. It will determine which of these "elicit which components of understanding." ***