[BioEdu] How to teach bioinformatics into an isolated area?

[J.W. Bizzaro]

I just found this:

  http://www.science-house.org/fungal/learn/Paper.pdf

The paper does suggest NCBI.  But it also suggests pre-printed exercises, such as "What is Your Gene?" and "Find Your Match", where students would play the part of the computer, using a mental algorithm to solve a problem.  I think that's a great idea for people who don't have computers.

Cheers,
Jeff

J.W. Bizzaro wrote:
> 
> This also brings up the issue of teaching bioinformatics at the 
> secondary level.  What would be a good curriculum for this?  I'm sure 
> that only very rarely would there be a course dedicated to the topic, 
> perhaps for honors students.  So, it's almost always taught as part of a 
> biology course.  What then could/should be taught in that limited time?  
> And, of all the software applications in bioinformatics, what would be 
> the easiest for high school students to learn?  Consider this: in remote 
> locations, you might as well forget about an Internet connection, so 
> visiting NCBI, etc. would be out of the question.
> 


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