SMART LAB, An Integrated Interdisciplinary Science/Math Laboratory

自然科学学院正在开发一个基于计算机的SMART实验室（科学/数学主动响应技术实验室），以支持跨学科的本科科学和数学学习。实验室的学习模式以技术为媒介，允许学生通过参与合作学习小组来积极回应科学/数学主题，这些小组设计、完成和报告实验室项目。实验室使用基于主题的调查，其结构强调科学学科和数学的相互联系的本质，既通过使用的特定练习，也通过在直接实验室设置内外的协作交流。SMART LAB是不同学科的班级之间交换数据、见解和科学/数学概念的场所。计算机主要扮演四个角色：作为实验室数据采集的设备控制器；作为可视化、检查、评估和解释实验室数据的分析工具；作为与实验室项目相关的网络数据资源的网关；并作为与其他教育社区交流的纽带，例如南达科他州部落和非部落的K-12教室以及美国和国外的其他本科科学/数学课程。综合教育/自然科学项目的职前中学科学/数学教育专业和职前小学教育专业的学生是该项目涉及的学生群体的重要组成部分。通过做科学来学习科学，这是SMART LAB的中心主题，在培养K-12科学教师中尤为重要。这些职前教师，以及其他本科专业的学生，受益于实验室和其他教室（K-12，部落学院，大学）之间的知识共享和网络连接。通过扮演导师/老师的角色，SMART LAB中的大学生对特定实验主题和一般科学/数学概念的理解有了显著的提高。

The College of Natural Sciences is developing a computer-based SMART LAB (Science/Math Active Response Technology Laboratory) to support interdisciplinary, undergraduate learning in science and mathematics. The learning model for the laboratory is technology mediated, allowing for active student response to science/math topics through involvement in cooperative learning groups, which design, complete, and report on lab projects. Laboratories use topic-based investigations, which are structured to emphasize the interconnected nature of the science disciplines and mathematics, both through the particular exercises used and through collaborative interchange within and beyond the immediate lab setting. The SMART LAB serves as a locus for exchange of data, insights, and science/math concepts among classes in different disciplines using the lab. Computers function in four major roles: as device controllers for laboratory data acquisition; as analytical tools for the visualization, inspection, evaluation, and interpretation of lab data; as gateways to network data resources relevant to the lab projects; and as links for communication with other educational communities, such as South Dakota tribal and nontribal K-12 classrooms and other undergraduate science/math classes, both in the United States and abroad. Preservice secondary science/math education majors in combined Education/Natural Sciences programs and preservice elementary education majors are a substantial part of the student population addressed by the project. Learning science by doing science, the central theme of the SMART LAB, is particularly important in the preparation of K-12 science teachers. Those preservice teachers, as well as other undergraduate majors, benefit from the shared knowledge and the network links between the laboratory and other classrooms (K-12, tribal colleges, universities). By assuming the role of mentor/teacher, college students in the SMART LAB add significantly to their own comprehension of the particular lab topics and of general science/math concepts.