MEDICAL MYSTERIES FROM HISTORY-- THE RECONSTRUCTORS

我们建议利用互联网的力量和网络游戏环境对中学生的吸引力，创造一种新型的科学学习资源。医学发现的病历将转化为以问题为基础的多媒体谜题，供学生解决。通过先前的研究，我们已经开发并现场测试了一个吸引中学生参与的冒险系列的工作模式。我们建议将该模型扩展到新的内容。假设在线角色是寻找过去丢失的医学知识的重建者，学生们将揭开特定疾病或医学发现的起源。每一集的学习目标将是多学科的。其目标是让学生通过参与虚拟实验来构建自己的知识，通过帮助他们为发现建立背景，并通过理解形成公共卫生政策所涉及的问题。一个代表医学、生物学、科学史、教育史和信息技术的经验丰富的团队将监督该项目，确保网站内容的完整性，并融入尖端技术。将采用以教师和学生为重点的迭代原型过程，使资源站点在教室、家庭和博物馆中变得令人兴奋、具有教育意义和有用。实地测试将在学校进行，代表社区的不同部分，确保向目标人群提供适当的材料。

We propose to leverage the power of the Internet and the appeal of on-line gaming environments for middle school students to create a new type of learning resource in science. Case histories of medical discovery will be transformed into "problem- based" multimedia mysteries for students to solve. Through prior research we have developed and field tested a working model for an adventure series that engages middle school students. We propose to extend the model to new content. Assuming the on-line role of a Reconstructor who seeks lost medical knowledge from the past, students will unravel the origins of specific diseases or medical discoveries. The learning objectives for each episode will be multidisciplinary. The goal is to engage students in constructing their own knowledge by participating in virtual experiments, by helping them establish a context for the discoveries, and by understanding issues involved in forming public health policy. An experienced team representing medicine, biology, history of science, education, and information technology will oversee the project, assuring the integrity of the site content, and incorporating cutting edge technology. A process of iterative prototyping, focusing heavily on teachers and students will be employed to make the resource site exciting, educational, and useful in classrooms, in homes, and in museums. The field tests will be conducted in schools, representing a cross-section of the community, assuring appropriate presentation of materials to target populations.