WELCOME!Using STELLA in Your Classroom

Workshop8:30am-11:00am

Friday, August 8, 2003 Simon Fraser 1310 IBM Lab South

Alan Clark, Georgia Perimeter Collegeand

National Computational Science Institute

Who is STELLA?Who is STELLA?

The STELLA software is specifically designed to build students' skills in building understanding--whether of a great piece of literature, Newton's Laws, or the working of an ecosystem. When the STELLA software is used to create curriculum materials, students. …

STELLASTELLA

Engage more deeply with the course material Build deeper and richer understanding Develop critical thinking skills Exercise their collaborative and communication

skills

STELLASTELLA

The STELLA software is uniquely suited to deliver on these promises because it combines mechanical ease-of-use with a very powerful general framework for thinking (Systems Thinking). Together these form an approach that utilizes:

Simulation to engage students through discovery-oriented experimentation

An icon-based language that captures how things really work A communication toolset designed to facilitate managing

diverse viewpoints

STELLA ResourcesSTELLA Resources

High Performance Systems, Inc.http://www.hps-inc.com/stellaVPed.htmDownloads of STELLA available.

National Computational Science Institutehttp://www.computationalscience.net

Workshop Materials

What am I Doing Here?What am I Doing Here?

NCSI participantSupercomputing Conference Education Program

delegatehttp://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/education/edu_

program.htmlDirector of Technology, Georgia Perimeter

College (Atlanta, GA)

NCSINCSI The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $2.75M grant

(Award Number: DUE-0127488) enabling NCSI to offer a national set of in-person, video-conferenced, and web-accessible workshops, seminars, and support activities. The initial target audience for NCSI are teams of faculty from predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUI's), minority serving institutions (MSI's), and community colleges whose students are either the next generation of scientists and engineers, the next generation of K-12 teachers, or both. With supplemental funding, NCSI plans to offer computational science workshops and sponsor educational activities for in-service teachers, business and government leaders, and the general public. NCSI participants then assist others on their own campuses and at neighboring institutions to introduce computational science in their own classes.

Georgia Perimeter CollegeGeorgia Perimeter College

A regional, multi-campus unit of the University System of Georgia, Georgia Perimeter College is the largest 2-year Associates Degree-granting institution in the system, and the third-largest overall of all USG institutions. Georgia Perimeter College is part of the University System of Georgia’s “technology hub.”

Getting to know STELLAGetting to know STELLA

Cue the slide show

BUT, this is a WORKSHOP!BUT, this is a WORKSHOP!

SO let’s go to WORK!We can SHOP later!Refer to handoutLaunch STELLABuild the model!