MODEL LITERACY OUTREACH
Supporting education resources about modeling and simulation literacy to inform the public during the pandemic.
MODEL LITERACY OUTREACH
Researchers Craig Jordan, Alex Nielsen, and William Martin are supporting education resources about modeling and simulation literacy to inform the public during the pandemic. Their Medium story, "Modeling Innovation," informs readers on SIR models, concepts of abstraction, among other subjects.
"It’s increasingly critical that members of the public can understand, assess, and act on models and simulations. Coronavirus can show us why.
As events have unfolded around the world due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), it is apparent that epidemics can have major impacts on society. It is also apparent that collective responses from communities can greatly reduce the negative effects of epidemics.
But how can communities make smart decisions in the face of these complex problems?
As has been very prevalent over past weeks, infection models have been a powerful way to communicate the scale and severity of this current pandemic. Models are physical or mathematical representations of things that happen in the real world. We can make models of anything: a ball rolling on the floor, traffic congestion in a busy city, how political candidates rise and fall . . . ."
Model Literacy Outreach
MODEL LITERACY OUTREACH
Researchers Craig Jordan, Alex Nielsen, and William Martin are supporting education resources about modeling and simulation literacy to inform the public during the pandemic. Their Medium story, "Modeling Innovation," informs readers on SIR models, concepts of abstraction, among other subjects.
"It’s increasingly critical that members of the public can understand, assess, and act on models and simulations. Coronavirus can show us why.
As events have unfolded around the world due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), it is apparent that epidemics can have major impacts on society. It is also apparent that collective responses from communities can greatly reduce the negative effects of epidemics.
But how can communities make smart decisions in the face of these complex problems?
As has been very prevalent over past weeks, infection models have been a powerful way to communicate the scale and severity of this current pandemic. Models are physical or mathematical representations of things that happen in the real world. We can make models of anything: a ball rolling on the floor, traffic congestion in a busy city, how political candidates rise and fall . . . ."