Collaborative Research: Strategies: STEMware - Designing Immersive Biology Learning Simulations for Formal and Informal Settings

Stemware项目正在雇用教育工作者、学生和科学家团队开发严肃、身临其境的3D游戏软件，供中学学生和教师在生物学中使用。游戏模拟、用户手册、补充课程和配套网站将讨论生物学中的现代主题，如生物信息学、基因组学和生物技术。这些产品将分发给全国各地的学校、家庭和课外项目。该项目的目标是提高学生对现代生物学问题和生物科学职业的兴趣和理解。该项目将在全国范围内分发至少7000份干器皿，通过暑期研讨会和学年期间的周六后续会议，为加州36名正式和非正式的科学教育工作者和36名学生提供60小时的专业或青年发展，并为全国另外800名教育工作者提供半天的干器皿培训会议，这些培训将影响数千名学生。合作伙伴包括加州大学戴维斯分校和加州大学伯克利分校的科学系、加州大学戴维斯分校教育学院、4-H科学、工程和技术计划、生物技术教师支持网络、加州课后网络和几家专注于STEM的地区性公司。

The STEMware project is employing teams of educators, students, and scientists to develop serious, immersive 3D gaming software for use by secondary students and teachers in biology. The gaming simulations, user manual, supplemental curriculum, and companion web site will address modern topics in biology, such as bioinformatics, genomics, and biotechnology. The products will be distributed to schools, homes, and afterschool programs across the nation. The goal of the project is to increase student interest in and understanding of modern issues in biology and careers in bioscience. The project is distributing at least 7,000 copies of STEMware nationwide, providing 36 formal and informal science educators and 36 students in California with 60 hours of professional or youth development via summer workshops and Saturday follow-up sessions during the school year, and offering half-day STEMware training conferences for an additional 800 educators across the nation who will impact thousands of students. Collaborating partners include science departments at the University of California (UC)-Davis and UC-Berkeley, the UC-Davis School of Education, the 4-H Science, Engineering and Technology program, the Biotechnology Teacher Support Network, the California Afterschool Network, and several regional STEM-focused companies.