This project innovates a new technology-enhanced platform called MindHive, based on NYU’s BrainWaves program to make neuroscience more accessible to students and teachers. It aims to:
- Develop an open-science citizen science platform for conducting human brain and behavior research in high school classrooms;
- Develop a remote neuroscience Student-Teacher-Scientists (STS) partnership program for high schools; and
- Evaluate the design, development, and implementation of the program and its impacts on students and teachers.
This project is a partnership with Suzanne Dikker and Ido Davidesco, and is supported by a Level 2 Exploratory DR K-12 grant from the National Science Foundation (Award no.: 1908557)
Topics
- Neuroscience
- Science Inquiry
- Crowdsourcing
- Citizen Science
- Open science
- Mentorship
See also
Publications & Presentations
Dikker, S., Yetman-Michaelson, L., & Matuk, C. (2022). A web-based tool for participatory science learning in the context of human psychology research. In, Proceedings of the Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning conference, The International Society for the Learning Sciences
Matuk, C., Martin, R., Vasudevan, V., Burgas, K., Chaloner, K., Davidesco, I., Sadhukha, S., Shevchenko, Y., Bumbacher, E. & Dikker, S. (2021). Students learning about science by investigating an unfolding pandemic. AERA Open, 7(1), 1-19. DOI: 10.1177/23328584211054850
Davidesco, I., Matuk, C., Bevilacqua, D. Poeppel, D., Dikker, S. (2021). Neuroscience research in the classroom: Portable brain technologies in educational research. Educational Researcher. DOI: 10.3102/0013189X211031563
Vasudevan, V., Matuk, C., Bumbacher, E., Davidesco, I., Dikker, S., Sadhukha, S., Chaloner, K., Burgas, K., Martin, R. & Shevchenko, Y. (2021). Students doing citizen science on an unfolding pandemic. In, Proceedings of the International Society for the Learning Sciences Conference, pp. 975-976. Online.
Dikker, S., Shevchenko, Y., Burgas, K., & Matuk, C. (2021, November). MindHive: A Community Science Platform for Human Brain and Behavior Research. In TMS Proceedings 2021. PubPub.