CI-TEAM Demonstration: Tsunami Shelter Challenge

网络基础设施的进步为农村社区的教育带来了新的机会。海啸避难所挑战赛采用了一种新的方法，向广泛和多样化的参与者提供知识和基于探究的学习体验，利用创新软件(建模和可视化)以令人兴奋的、高度互动的材料吸引不同的受众。农村学校的中学教师和他们的学生主要服务于西班牙裔和美洲原住民，他们将学习CAD(计算机辅助设计)，使用IronCAD、计算建模和可视化技术以及网页设计和视频电话会议技能。他们学到的CAD技能将广泛适用于工程设计、中学数学和科学。使用他们的新技能，教师将指导学生使用计算建模和可视化来设计和测试海啸避难所。他们的任务将是设计一个能够承受印度洋海啸(2004年12月)和卡特里娜飓风(2005年8月)造成的风暴潮的力量的庇护所。学生团队将负责调查和设计避难所，运行模拟，记录结果，修改结构，并重复模拟，直到避难所能够承受这两场灾难。然后，他们将使用网络技术和协作工具将他们的结果传达给海啸研究人员和其他学校。最关键的将是与海啸研究人员合作，建造学生避难所的物理模型，以便在NEES海啸波盆地(位于俄勒冈州立大学)进行测试。NEES TWB是专门为最大限度地利用CI而设计和运营的。学生们将有机会亲眼目睹他们的计算模型如何准确地预测实验实验室中发生的事情，以及观察CI在TWB中所扮演的基本角色。提高所有学生的计算机辅助教学技能的最有效的方法之一就是提高教师的技能。当学生能够看到CI在他们的生活和周围人的生活中的适用性时，CI也是最吸引人的。在俄勒冈州和其他沿海州，海啸和风暴潮构成了非常真实的威胁，居住在海岸附近的学生意识到它们可能造成的破坏。该项目为教师和学生在计算建模和可视化方面提供了深入的经验。它还清楚地将计算建模与物理现实联系在一起。该项目将为广泛的教师和他们的学生带来CI技能、经验和知识。目标学生来自俄勒冈州代表性较低的种族群体和主要是农村地区。在该项目中编写的材料将提供给其他传播和信息小组以及全国的学校。海浪破坏，特别是海啸和风暴潮造成的生命损失这一热点问题，将使通常不从事传播和信息的学生了解并使用它来解决与保护人类生命有关的问题。利用TWB的远程呈现功能，全国的学生将能够参与海啸研究。

Advances in Cyberinfrastructure bring new opportunities for education in rural communities. The Tsunami Shelter Challenge takes a new approach in delivering knowledge and inquiry-based learning experiences to a broad and diverse set of constituents, making use of innovative software (modeling and visualization) to engage a diverse audience with exciting, highly interactive materials.Middle School teachers and their students in rural schools, serving primarily Hispanic and Native American, will learn CAD (computer aided design), using IronCAD, computational modeling and visualization techniques along with web page design, and video teleconferencing skills. The CAD skills they learn will be broadly applicable to engineering design, middle school math and sciences. Using their new skills, the teachers will guide students in the design and testing of a tsunami shelter using computational modeling and visualization. Their task will be to design a shelter that will withstand the forces that occurred in the Indian Ocean Tsunami (December 2004) and the storm surge produced by Hurricane Katrina (August 2005). Student teams will be responsible for investigating and designing the shelter, running the simulations, documenting their results, modifying their structure, and repeating the simulation until the shelter is able to withstand both disasters. They will then use web technology and collaborative tools to communicate their results to tsunami researchers and other schools.The capstone will be the construction of physical models of the students' shelters for testing at the NEES Tsunami Wave Basin (TWB, located at Oregon State University) in partnership with tsunami researchers. The NEES TWB is specifically designed and operated for the maximum utilization of CI. Students will have the opportunity to see firsthand how their computational models accurately predicted what happens in an experimental lab, as well as observing the fundamental role that CI plays at the TWB. One of the most efficient ways to increase all students' CI skills is to enhance their teachers' skills. CI is also most engaging when students can see the applicability of CI to their lives and the lives of the people around them. In Oregon and other coastal states, tsunamis and storm surges constitute very real threats, and students living near the coast are aware of the damage they can cause. This project provides in-depth experiences for both teachers and students in computational modeling and visualization. It also clearly ties computational modeling to physical reality.The project will bring CI skills, experiences, and knowledge to a broad range of teachers and their students. The targeted students are from underrepresented ethnic groups and largely rural areas of Oregon. The materials developed in the project will be available to other CI-TEAM groups and to schools nationwide. The topical issue of wave damage, particularly the loss of lives due to tsunamis and hurricane surges, will allow students not normally engaged in CI to understand and use it to solve problems related to the safeguarding of human life. Using the telepresence capabilities of the TWB, students nationwide will be able to participate in tsunami research.