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Jewel Reuter (jewelreuter@earthlink.net) Louisiana State University, and Louisiana Virtual School, Baton Rouge, LA Jim Wandersee (jwander@lsu.edu) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 2003 NABT Special Workshop Number 5 Wednesday, October 8, 2003 1 PM - 4 PM First
introduced at NABT 2002, BioDatamationTM is an integrated
instructional technology approach that is specifically designed to
improve students' learning of photosynthesis and respiration. This year, using a major national data set and
journal-published research findings, we have identified and will present
12 critical conceptual difficulties that students experience while they
are learning cellular respiration.
In response to this, we have designed a suite of BioDatamationTM
learning strategies to help students surmount these barriers to
understanding and actually master the complex construct of cellular
respiration. With
our new "Visual Space" model of cognition, workshop
participants will develop visual inquiry techniques that integrate a
laboratory sequence of Korean Kimchee-making investigations, Vernier
sensor technology coupled with Texas Instruments graphing calculators,
student-digital photography, student-made computer animations, and
WebQuest activities. Explore
and probe the respiration of a set of microbes comprising the Chinese
cabbage phyllosphere by creating an anaerobic environment with microbes
by actually making Kimchee (the most famous of all Korean foods), and
analyzing its biochemistry (via data sensors for carbon dioxide, pH,
conductivity and turbidity). Learn
how to help students review prior knowledge, compare, contrast, and
master cellular respiration, as well as integrate respiration with
photosynthesis, by creating their own animated Microsoft PowerPoint®
slides. You will go home with some effective ideas and skills you can
use in your classes the very next week. We
will help you learn the BioDatamationTM approach to
instruction, simplify the technology applications, and help you revise
your vision of biology laboratory teaching and learning for the 21st
century. Sponsorship includes: Vernier Software & Technology, Texas Instruments, Carolina Biological Supply, Microsoft Corporation, Win Cube Technologies Corporation, Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, Louisiana Quality Education Support Fund, and Louisiana State University.
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