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Biobuilder R to teach synthetic biology in high school and early college settings

Biobuilder R to teach synthetic biology in high school and early college settings. 09.26.10 NKuldell and JDixon SynBERC Retreat. “Adventures” then “biobuilder”.

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Biobuilder R to teach synthetic biology in high school and early college settings

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  1. BiobuilderR to teach synthetic biology in high school and early college settings 09.26.10 NKuldell and JDixon SynBERC Retreat

  2. “Adventures” then “biobuilder” “Visitors to the website self-navigate within five topic areas to relevant animations, podcasts, primary journal articles, and news reports”

  3. biobuilding curriculum http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioBuilding:_Synthetic_Biology_for_Students http://openwetware.org/wiki/BioBuilding:_Synthetic_Biology_for_Teachers

  4. biobuilding: essay assignments • Promise and Perils • Design Do the potential contributions to society warrant the potential risks inherent in synthetic biology? Identify a problem or challenge that can be addressed through synthetic biology, then design a system to solve it.

  5. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Picture this • Eau that smell • iTune • What a colorful world

  6. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Picture this s54 + inverter s70 • Eau that smell • iTune • What a colorful world

  7. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Picture this s54 + inverter s70 • Eau that smell • iTune • What a colorful world

  8. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Picture this s54 + inverter s70 • Eau that smell • iTune • What a colorful world

  9. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Picture this s54 + inverter s70 • Eau that smell • iTune • What a colorful world

  10. biobuilding: hands-on activities • Eau that smell • iTune

  11. Variations for resource-strapped schools

  12. Please help with the next steps • Dissemination • Point teachers you know in this direction • Teacher training, summer 2011 (volunteers?) • Development • New labs and topic ideas always welcome • Facebook/Twitter help • Support OWW where content is housed If all goes well, project will outgrow my lab Send thoughts on how to grow this resource

  13. Sincere thanks to many! Adventures/animations team Drew Endy Isadora Deese Reshma Shetty Rebecca Adams MIT SBWG Chuck Wadey Jim Dixon and his adventurous seniors at Sharon HS Animated StoryBoards team Ezra Krauz Berhan Dagnew Dan Pack Website team Chris DeFrancesco Max Antinori Jenny Nguyen Lab Content Justin Buck Ginkgo Bioworks iGEM teams around the world

  14. Conceptual Framework for Education and Public Outreach Informal Education (typically in a unique situation) Public Outreach (typically while at “home”) Formal Education (typically in a classroom) F G A B C D E Marketing News Media Support Smaller audience More contact time Deeper understanding Larger audience Low contact time Shallow understanding from Morrow (2000) Space Science Institute

  15. “Most web-based course catalogs that I have surfed through seem like they were designed using an original Commodore 64” • My “dream” course catalog would include: • Reliable and relevant search function • Metadata, e.g. content tags • CMS integration (link to prof’s bio & research?) • Multimedia (sample lecture video?) • Course Matrices to showcase relationship of class with other academic programs • Accessible from mobile device “Please know that in 2010 it is, in this author’s opinion, unacceptable to publish a course catalog as a gigantic and unwieldy PDF. Furthermore, please save trees. Course catalogs do not need to be printed. Web-based catalogs are more efficient, more accessible, and are not the future, they are the present.”

  16. http://openwetware.org/wiki/20.949/F10:Schedule

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