iNeuron: A contemporary platform for neuroscience education

iNeuron：当代神经科学教育平台

基本信息

批准号：
8310926
负责人：
JANET M DUBINSKY
金额：
$ 25万
依托单位：
ADVENTIUM ENTERPRISES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-08-02 至 2013-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8310926
关键词：
Address American Association for the Advancement of Science Architecture Benchmarking Brain California Charge Computer software Crowding Development Devices Drug Interactions Education Educational Curriculum Educational Technology Educational process of instructing Educational workshop Electronics Engineering Environment Evaluation Event Exposure to General Population Goals Hand Knowledge Knowledge acquisition Learning Life Massachusetts Mathematics Mental Health Mental disorders Minnesota Modeling Motion Nervous System Physiology Neurons Neurosciences New York Perception Phase Problem Solving Recording of previous events Research Schools Science Secondary Schools Series Small Business Innovation Research Grant Students Teacher Professional Development Technology Texas Thinking Touch sensation Trademark Training United States National Institutes of Health Universities Vision Work base cognitive change cognitive function experience flexibility handheld mobile device improved innovation literacy meetings mind control nervous system disorder neural circuit programs prototype scaffold science education skills software development teacher technology development tool usability

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adventium Enterprises and the University of Minnesota (UMN) propose to develop a participatory educational toolkit and curriculum to teach neuroscience and mental health concepts via exploratory and investigative learning that integrates nervous system function with engineering, technology and mathematics concepts. iNeuron(tm) models neuronal, synaptic, and circuit functions, and will provide an engaging, hands-on, problem- solving learning environment using mobile computing devices that are growing more common in classrooms. This project will combine development of 1) a flexible, multimodal software architecture integrating classroom level and distributed classroom learning environments hosted on multiple, interactive hand-held devices with centralized management and coordination and 2) an immersive story-based set of neuroscience challenges to teach key concepts by transforming a set of handheld electronic devices into functionally connected neurons. By engaging in solving these challenges, students will deepen their understanding of how their own brains control body and cognitive functions and change with learning. Subsequently, the students' understanding that they are in charge of changing their own brains is expected to motivate learners to apply themselves in school. Our long range goal is to increase secondary student involvement in scientific and engineering problem solving activities to build higher order thinking skills needed in the 21st century economy. The objective of this proposed SBIR is to develop and deploy, via existing online channels, an interactive application to enable students to transparently acquire these skill sets while engaged in modeling and learning about nervous system functions. To accomplish these goals, Adventium Enterprises has partnered with neuroscientists from the University of Minnesota. Adventium has a rich history of active participation in educational projects and experience researching, developing, and fielding advanced technology. The University of Minnesota has developed and evaluated the highly successful BrainU series of science teacher professional development workshops combining neuroscience and inquiry pedagogy. Together, our Phase 1 specific aims are to develop the software application, a series of lesson plans that meet educational standards, and evaluate the implemented prototype in a classroom.

描述（由申请人提供）：使用探索性和调查性学习，将神经科学和心理健康概念教授神经科学和心理健康概念，通过探索性和调查性学习将神经系统功能与工程，技术和数学概念整合在一起，以教授神经科学和心理健康概念，以教授神经科学和心理健康概念，以教授神经科学和心理健康概念，以教授神经科学和心理健康概念。 Ineuron（TM）对神经元，突触和电路功能进行建模，并将使用移动计算设备在课堂上越来越普遍。该项目将结合开发1）一个灵活的多式联系软件体系结构，集成了课堂级别和分布式的课堂学习环境，该学习环境托管在多个交互式手持设备上，具有集中式管理和协调，以及2）基于故事的神经科学挑战集，以教授教学通过将一组手持电子设备转换为功能连接的神经元的关键概念。通过解决这些挑战，学生将加深对自己大脑如何控制身体和认知功能以及随着学习变化的理解。随后，学生对自己负责改变自己的大脑的理解有望激励学习者将自己应用于学校。我们的远距离目标是增加二级学生参与科学和工程问题解决活动，以建立21世纪经济所需的高级思维技能。该提议的SBIR的目的是通过现有的在线渠道开发和部署交互式应用程序，使学生能够在参与建模和学习神经系统功能的同时透明地获取这些技能。为了实现这些目标，冒险企业与明尼苏达大学的神经科学家合作。 Adventium拥有积极参与教育项目以及研究，开发和实行先进技术的经验的悠久历史。明尼苏达大学已经开发并评估了结合神经科学和调查教学法的非常成功的Brainu系列科学教师专业发展研讨会。总之，我们的第一阶段特定目的是开发软件应用程序，一系列符合教育标准的课程计划，并评估教室中实现的原型。