A Partnership in Neuroscience Education

描述（由申请人提供）：“神经科学教育伙伴关系”将创建与现代神经科学研究，神经健康和健康素养有关的特定问题的多媒体资源集合。多媒体作品包括高清晰度视频动画的外周和中枢神经系统细胞和组织提出的数字圆顶天文馆。展览还将制作成DVD、配套视频游戏和博物馆信息亭的互动媒体。故事的各个方面将被制作成具有逻辑和分支场景的交互式电子书故事，这些故事将向用户传授神经系统的基本原理和机制。我们计划开发的主题包括但不限于以下内容：（1）疼痛-每个人都经历过的东西，但几乎没有人知道它是如何以及从哪里来的。(2)学习和记忆与儿童发育和对大脑功能需求的健康见解的关系，包括睡眠。(3)免疫系统和神经系统的相互作用。这种伙伴关系是通过三个不同群体的协同和协调活动实现的：（A）博物馆和学校，（B）知识伙伴，（C）生产伙伴。(A)新项目将包括卡内基科学中心，温彻斯特瑟斯顿独立学校（招生650人）和匹兹堡公立学校（招生29，000人，近60%为非洲裔美国人），以及特殊资源，如“科学岩石”移动的实验室（CTSI/CTSA）。虽然复杂的健康和科学学习目标通常在中学学习，但我们发现，当以一种对孩子既容易理解又有意义的方式呈现时，年幼的学生非常能够理解和欣赏基本的基本原则。我们相信，尽早建立对神经科学更深入的基本了解将极大地提高中学后期的学习效果。(B)智力和医学伙伴关系包括匹兹堡大学临床和转化科学研究所（CTSA）;迪克讷大学慢性疼痛研究联盟和匹兹堡大学医学院疼痛研究中心。来自迪克讷大学教育学院、文科学院多媒体系和卫生保健伦理中心的其他同事将参加。匹兹堡大学麦高恩再生医学研究所的同事也将贡献他们的专业知识。(C)制作合作伙伴包括我们的多媒体专家和卡内基梅隆大学娱乐技术中心的工作人员。一个外部咨询委员会将提供监督和指导。包括Rockman等人在内的独立评估人员将与我们合作，对受众的知识和态度进行形成性和总结性评估，以及一项小规模的随机对照试验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The "Partnership in Neuroscience Education" will create collections of multimedia resources on specific issues that relate to modern neuroscience research, neurological health and health literacy. The multimedia pieces include high definition video animation of peripheral and central nervous system cells and tissues presented in digital dome planetariums. Shows will also be produced as DVDs, companion video games and interactive media for museum kiosks. Aspects of the stories will be crafted into interactive eBook stories with logic and branching scenarios that teach the user about the fundamental principles and mechanisms of the nervous system. The topics that we plan to develop include, but are not limited, to the following: (1) Pain - something that everyone experiences, but almost no one understands how and where it comes from. (2) Learning and Memory in relationship to both childhood development and healthy insights into the needs of the functioning brain, including sleep. (3) Interactions of the Immune System and the Nervous System. The partnership is realized by the synergistic, coordinated activity of three distinct groups: (A) museums and schools, (B) intellectual partners, (C) production partners. (A) The new project will include the Carnegie Science Center, joined by Winchester Thurston Independent School (enrollment 650) and Pittsburgh Public Schools (enrollment 29,000, nearly 60% African American), as well as special resources like the "Science Rocks" Mobile Lab (CTSI/CTSA). While complex health and science learning goals are typically studied in middle school, we have found that younger students are very capable of understanding and appreciating the underlying fundamental principles when presented in a manner that is both accessible and meaningful to the child. We believe that building a stronger fundamental understanding of neuroscience early on will dramatically enhance the learning that can be achieved later in middle school. (B) The intellectual and medical partnership include the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Pittsburgh (a CTSA); Chronic Pain Research Consortium at Duquesne University and the Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Additional colleagues from the Duquesne University School of Education, the Liberal Arts College Department of Multimedia, and the Center for Health Care Ethics will participate. Colleagues from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh will also contribute their expertise. (C) The production partnership includes our staff of multimedia experts and the Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University. An external advisory committee will provide oversight and guidance. Independent evaluators including Rockman et al will work with us to contribute formative and summative evaluations of audience knowledge and attitudes, as well as a small-scale randomized-control trial.