Creating Custom Foldit Puzzles for Teaching Biochemistry
By Lorna Dsilva, Shubhi Mittal, B. Koepnick, Jeff Flatten, Seth Cooper, S. Horowitz. 2019
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The computer game Foldit is currently widely used as a biology and biochemistry teaching aid. Herein, we introduce a new feature of Foldit called “custom contests” that allows educators to create puzzles that fit their curriculum. The effectiveness of the custom contests is demonstrated by the use of five distinct custom contests in an upper‐level biochemistry class. The new custom contest feature can be implemented in classes ranging from middle school to graduate school to enable educators to best complement their current curriculum. © 2019 International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 47(2): 133–139, 2019.
Subfields: Communication, Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology
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- Better together: Elements of successful scientific software development in a distributed collaborative community (2020, background): “Foldit is widely used by the general public to solve real scientific puzzles[31], as a teaching tool for education levels from K-12 to graduate school[32], and by academic labs to gain insights and inspire new scientific discoveries.”