Exploration of Pad++ for Plant Biology Instruction

9617288本非这项为探索性研究提供小额赠款的建议侧重于使用研究包Pad++探索使用多层次交互模拟来教授基本生物学概念。拟议的工作旨在解决审查了题为“从基因到热带雨林”的提案的小组的关切，并将为重新提交一项整合了模拟和虚拟研究环境的更大提案做准备。PAD++是一种呈现和导航信息的新方法，可以在教学和发现科学方面产生重大进展。这种新方法的基本比喻是“缩放”这一直观概念。与现有的生物基本概念教学软件相比，PAD++有几个优势。首先，缩放可以用来理解三维组织，并教授组织层级之间的关系。其次，Pad的连接工具，如镜片，可以用来模拟生物过程。第三，相关数据库可以在焊盘表面上进行空间组织，并使用焊盘工具(如门户)进行访问。我们的最终目标是利用这项技术，通过展示三个植物生物学学科所面临的真实科学问题，让学生探索植物生物学的前沿问题：经济植物学、植物系统学和植物分子生物学。这一更大的应用将成为利用该技术探索和整合其他科学教育领域的范例。这项SGER提案的目标是探索使用Pad来教授两个基本的生物学概念。对于这个原型，重点将放在调节细胞分裂在器官形态和功能生成中的作用，以及基因和表型之间的关系。Pad++的缩放功能将被用作显示不同组织级别之间关系的工具。特别是，基于对腐烂发育生物学的分子遗传学见解，将开发多级别可缩放模拟。这些模拟将在各层之间进行交互，因此在一个组织级别上更改参数将在其他级别上导致适当的更改。在组织的每一级，都可以使用港口及机场管理局的连接工具来模拟实验程序并访问相关数据库。该应用程序将以迭代的方式在高中生和本科生身上进行测试。利用建构主义原理，学生将被引导完成在虚拟实验室中生成实验数据的步骤，即假设。

9617288 Benfey This proposal for a small grant for exploratory research focuses on the use of the research package Pad++ to explore the use of multi-level interactive simulations for the teaching of fundamental biological concepts. The proposed work is intended to address concerns of the panel that reviewed a proposal entitled "From Genes to Rainforests" and will be performed in preparation for a resubmission of a larger proposal that integrates simulations and virtual research environments. Pad++ is a new approach to presenting and navigating information which could yield significant advances in teaching and discovering science. The fundamental metaphor of this new approach is the intuitive notion of 'zooming.' Pad++has several advantages over existing software for the teaching of fundamental biological concepts. First, zooming can be used to comprehend three-dimensional organization and to teach the relationship between levels of organization. Second, Pad's connectivity tools such as lenses can be used to simulate biological procedures. Third, relevant databases can be organized spatially on the Pad surface and accessed using Pad tools such as portals. Our ultimate goal is to use this technology to allow students to explore cutting-edge issues in plant biology by presenting real scientific problems faced by three plant biology disciplines: economic botany, plant systematic and plant molecular biology. This larger application would serve as a paradigm for using the technology to explore and integrate other fields of science education. The goal of this SGER proposal is to explore the use of Pad for the instruction of two basic biological concepts. For this prototype the focus will be on the role of regulated cell division in generating organ shape and function and the relationship between genotype and phenotype. The zooming capacity of Pad++will be used as a tool to demonstrate relationships between different levels of organization. In particular, multi-level zoomable simulations will be developed basedon molecular genetic insights into rot developmental biology. These simulations will be interactive among layers so that changing a parameter at one level of organization will cause the appropriate change at other levels. At each level of organization, Pad's connectivity tools will be available to simulate experimental procedures and to access relevant databases. The application will be tested on high school and undergraduate students in an iterative fashion. Using constructivist principles, students will be guided through the steps of generating experimental data in the virtual laboratory, hypotheses.