Integrating Technology into Introductory Biology Laboratories

生物科学（61）穆伦贝格学院的生物系致力于让学生进行长期的，独立的研究项目，完成全面的数据分析和数据演示，并从事密集的合作调查和调查型练习。穆伦贝格1998年的ILI-NSF赠款确保了这些目标通过使用基于计算机的技术在高级研究课程中实现。目前的项目是解决介绍生物学序列，是一个适应项目万花筒的“什么工程”，并在库茨敦大学（DUE 9952337）类似的努力提供的学习。具体而言，该项目正在实施植物和动物结构/功能和细胞/分子生物学实验室教学模式，同时采用计算机技术，以促进科学探究。我们的中心目标是扩大使用计算机技术和科学文化的学生在介绍生物实验室注册。这些课程通过调查练习和独立研究向学生介绍科学探究的所有要素。学生使用计算机，软件和外围设备1）记录他们的短期调查和长期独立实验的数据，2）做统计和绘图，3）将数据放在网络上，并使用基于网络的技术访问分子数据库，以及4）以海报和/或口头演示的形式展示他们的长期项目。因此，基于计算机的基础设施允许学生在实验室内外进行更复杂的连接。

Biological Sciences (61)Muhlenberg College's Biology Department is committed to having students undertake long term, independent research projects, complete comprehensive data analysis and data presentation, and engage in intensive collaborative inquiry and investigative type exercises. Muhlenberg's 1998 ILI-NSF grant ensured that these objectives were accomplished in the upper-level research-based courses through the use of computer-based technology. The current project is addressing the introductory biology sequence, and is an adaptation of the learnings provided by Project Kaleidoscope's "What Works," and similar efforts at Kutztown University (DUE 9952337). Specifically, the project is implementing models for teaching plant and animal structure/function and cell/molecular biology laboratories while adapting computer technology to facilitate scientific inquiry. Our central goal is to expand the use of computer technology and the culture of science to students enrolled in the introductory biology laboratories. These courses are introducing the students to all elements of scientific inquiry through investigative exercises and doing independent research. The students are using computers, software, and peripherals to 1) record data from their short-term investigative and long-term independent experiments, 2) doing statistics and graphing, 3) placing data on the web and using web-based technology to access molecular databases, and 4) presenting their long-term projects in the format of a poster and/or oral presentation. Thus, the computer-based infrastructure is allowing the students to make even more sophisticated connections within and outside the laboratory.