Eradicating Misconceptions about Viruses using Multimodal Trace Data in an Intelligent Game-based Environment across Educational Contexts

项目概要/摘要。 科学的错误观念正变得越来越普遍，并对国家造成损害。 兴趣正在进行的SARS-CoV-2大流行突出了与以下方面有关的误解： 传染病可能会造成严重的医疗，经济和社会挑战， 不遵守公共卫生建议和破坏对科学 机构职能体系不幸的是，一旦科学的错误观念被一个人接受， 众所周知，仅仅通过提供“正确”信息来补救是非常困难的。我们需要 教育计划和工具，将循证信息与更广泛的社会 因素，个人风险的表示，以及信息的多种表示，以提高 我们纠正误解的能力。我们的目标是创造一个创新的，可持续的， 一个可复制的教育计划：（1）创建和部署一个创新的基于游戏的 模拟教育用户有关传染病，（2）激励来自不同国家的年轻人 背景考虑在生物医学研究的职业生涯，（3）为教师提供从事 以及易于采用的数字化工具，以培养学生的系统思维和数据科学素养 技能，以及（4）进行创新的STEM教育研究， 使用系统思维和先进的学习技术。

Project Summary / Abstract. Scientific misconceptions are becoming increasingly pervasive and damaging to the national interest. The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted how misconceptions related to infectious disease can pose serious medical, economic, and social challenges by increasing non-compliance with public health recommendations and undermining trust in scientific institutions. Unfortunately, once scientific misconceptions are adopted by an individual, they are notoriously difficult to remediate by merely presenting the “correct” information. We need educational programs and tools that integrate evidence-based information with broader societal factors, representation of individual risk, and multiple representations of information to improve our ability to correct misconceptions. Our goal is to create an innovative, sustainable, and reproducible educational program that: (1) Creates and deploys an innovative game-based simulation to educate users about infectious diseases, (2) Inspires young people from diverse backgrounds to consider careers in biomedical research, (3) Provides teachers with engaging and easily adopted digital tools that build students’ systems thinking and data science literacy skills, and (4) Conducts innovative STEM education research about the remediation of misconceptions using systems thinking and Advanced Learning Technologies.