这是一项互动式艺术活动,旨在促进学生的反思和学习有关宿主微生物相互作用的知识
1Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Journal of microbiology & biology education
|March 31, 2025
概括
基于艺术的学习,使用MicrobiART活动,增强对复杂微生物生态的理解. 这种引人入胜的方法在视觉上代表了宿主-微生物的相互作用,有助于理解和培养新的教学想法.
科学领域:
- 微生物学和微生物生态学
- 科学教育科学教育教育.
- 科学传播科学传播
背景情况:
- 微生物相互作用是复杂的,往往是抽象的,给学生的理解带来了挑战.
- 传统的教学方法可能无法充分捕捉宿主-微生物关系的动态性质.
- 视觉和动感学习方法可以增强对看不见的生物实体的理解.
研究的目的:
- 开发和评估一种以艺术为基础的活动,MicrobiART,用于教导宿主-微生物相互作用.
- 探索使用混合艺术材料的有效性,以创建微生物生态概念的类比.
- 通过以艺术为基础的方法来评估参与者的参与和对复杂互动的理解.
主要方法:
- 开发MicrobiART活动,使用纸张,球和油漆来表示宿主,微生物和环境.
- 微生物ART的实施作为一个博士生会议上的会议.
- 参与者创作了描绘宿主-微生物-环境相互作用的艺术作品,随后进行了讨论和反思.
- 关于参与者的理解和经验的事证据收集.
主要成果:
- 参与者展示了对相互作用结果如何取决于宿主,微生物和环境的特定组合的理解.
- 在艺术作品中发现了新兴的模式,例如在同一环境中的相互作用的颜色相似性.
- 这项活动被发现是愉快的,互动的,和美学上的吸引力,培养连接和新的想法.
结论:
- 将艺术融入科学教学,特别是微生物学和微生物生态学,有效地帮助理解抽象概念.
- 微生物ART活动提供了一个有价值的,适应性的工具,用于科学传播和教育跨多样化的受众.
- 艺术与科学在会议环境中的融合促进了参与,激发了新的教学策略,并促进了轻松的科学讨论.
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