Project
description | Part of the EOT-PACI (Education, Outreach and Training for the Partnerships for an Advanced Computing Infrastructure) mission is to provide teacher training on computer-based modeling and scientific visualization. The EOT-PACI intends to, through collaborations with LIS partners and schools of education, and by leveraging the power of their alliance, including regional PACS (Partners for Advanced Computational Services), target critical points at which to support the use of computer-based modeling and scientific visualization. One such critical point is teacher education. Thus the EOT-PACI group plans to host a national workshop to understand how EOT-PACI partners, in collaboration with their parent organizations, National Computational Science Alliance and the National Partnership for an Advanced Computational Infrastructure, can work with colleges of education to incorporate computer-based modeling and scientific visualization in their science education courses. Specifically, the EOT-PACI partnership proposes to contribute to teacher education in two ways: 1. Technology transfer of visualization and modeling tools, learning environments, and knowledge mining tools. This would include adapting technology for educational settings that have known barriers, such as low bandwidth or low-end computers. 2. Bridge scientific and education communities by developing and supporting an infrastructure to support relationships among scientists and educators. This infrastructure might include 1-to-1 mentoring relationships, but would more likely build on teleapprenticeship relationships. These relationships might consist of teachers, undergraduates and graduate students participating in special programs and internships with scientists. These teachers, undergraduates and graduate students then become intermediate links between scientists and educators. In addition, EOT-PACI partners will often assist in mediating communication among communities. This infrastructure would not just aid teacher educators in learning to use modeling and visualization, but also in why to use it. |