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Gregg Fletcher

Teaching the Controversy: Why the Creationism Vs. Evolution Debate Should Stay Out of S... - 56 views

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    • Tammy Ahearne
      Tammy Ahearne on 20 Feb 12
       
      teaching controversy? Really?
  • 14 percent of high school biology teachers personally reject not only the theory of evolution but also scientific method, which teaches rigorous critical thinking skills and draws a clear path to the discovery of real truths and how to separate them from merely apparent truths.
    • Tammy Ahearne
      Tammy Ahearne on 20 Feb 12
       
      I don't understand how this can be rejected with the CCSS?
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  • The basic science of evolutionary biology underlies so many diverse disciplines that it can be considered a basic necessity of knowledge in modern scientific society.
    • Gregg Fletcher
      Gregg Fletcher on 20 Feb 12
       
      This statement is misleading in that it assumes the ID stand rejects small variations within an already preexisting genetic code.  Creationist and ID teachings both conclude that variations within the genetic code are essential to species survival.  The pseudo-proven evolution of species-to-species genetics does not need to be taught at any level in order for individuals to prosper at higher institutes of learning.
  • It seems today's Religious Right would raise a generation of kids who would perhaps conclude the lights are out because they used a curse word or took God's name in vain.
  • Tammy Ahearne on 20 Feb 12
     
    Great for ten page paper
D. S. Koelling

A Perfect Storm in Undergraduate Education, Part I - Advice - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 40 views

chronicle.com/...126451

shared by D. S. Koelling on 28 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • at least 45 percent of undergraduates demonstrated "no improvement in critical thinking, complex reasoning, and writing skills in the first two years of college, and 36 percent showed no progress in four years."
  • What good does it do to increase the number of students in college if the ones who are already there are not learning much? Would it not make more sense to improve the quality of education before we increase the quantity of students?
  • students in math, science, humanities, and social sciences—rather than those in more directly career-oriented fields—tend to show the most growth in the areas measured by the Collegiate Learning Assessment, the primary tool used in their study. Also, students learn more from professors with high expectations who interact with them outside of the classroom. If you do more reading, writing, and thinking, you tend to get better at those things, particularly if you have a lot of support from your teachers.
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  • Increasingly, undergraduates are not prepared adequately in any academic area but often arrive with strong convictions about their abilities.
  • It has become difficult to give students honest feedback.
  • As the college-age population declines, many tuition-driven institutions struggle to find enough paying customers to balance their budgets. That makes it necessary to recruit even more unprepared students, who then must be retained, shifting the burden for academic success away from the student and on to the teacher.
  • Although a lot of emphasis is placed on research on the tenure track, most faculty members are not on that track and are retained on the basis of what students think of them.
  • Students gravitate to lenient professors and to courses that are reputedly easy, particularly in general education.
  • It is impossible to maintain high expectations for long unless everyone holds the line in all comparable courses—and we face strong incentives not to do that.
  • Formerly, full-time, tenured faculty members with terminal degrees and long-term ties to the institution did most of the teaching. Such faculty members not only were free to grade honestly and teach with conviction but also had a deep understanding of the curriculum, their colleagues, and the institutional mission. Now undergraduate teaching relies primarily on graduate students and transient, part-time instructors on short-term contracts who teach at multiple institutions and whose performance is judged almost entirely by student-satisfaction surveys.
  • Contingent faculty members, who are paid so little, routinely teach course loads that are impossible to sustain without cutting a lot of corners.
  • Many colleges are now so packed with transient teachers, and multitasking faculty-administrators, that it is impossible to maintain some kind of logical development in the sequencing of courses.
  • Students may be enjoying high self-esteem, but college teachers seem to be suffering from a lack of self-confidence.
  • Steve Ransom on 28 Feb 11
     
    So many issues here to deal with. Good read.
Judy Robison

NASA Physics and Engineering | Classroom Resources | PBS Learning Media - 64 views

www.pbslearningmedia.org/...npe11

science

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  • Judy Robison on 20 May 14
     
    * Videos and interactive presentations drawn from NASA's vast collection of media resources * Informational texts, discussion questions, and teaching tips to support the Next Generation Science Standards and the Common Core State Standards for Literacy * Professional development resources that illustrate best practices and provide concrete models of effective teaching
Holly Barlaam

Puppets Teaching Lab Safety Are Surprisingly Not Creepy | Wired Science | Wired.com - 52 views

www.wired.com/...puppet-lab-safety-video

Science safety labs

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  • Holly Barlaam on 16 Sep 12
     
    song featuring puppets teaches about science lab safety.  for young children.
Donna Canuel

the art of teaching science - 68 views

www.artofteachingscience.org

humanistic science

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  • Donna Canuel on 19 Aug 11
     
    Science teaching with a student centered spin
Marita Thomson

Quantum Victoria | A Centre of Excellence & Innovation in Science & Mathematics - 78 views

www.quantumvictoria.vic.edu.au

innovation teaching training science maths PD

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  • Marita Thomson on 11 May 11
     
    Quantum Victoria will deliver an online professional development module that will equip teachers with the skills and tools necessary for teaching in 21st century learning environments. This embedded professional development opportunity will focus primarily on project-based learning (PBL) and the effective integration of ICT in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. ... [more]
Holly Barlaam

National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science - 44 views

sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs

case studies anatomy physiology biology science

shared by Holly Barlaam on 24 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 24 Jul 11
     
    case studies for use in science teaching--found while looking for anatomy & physiology resources
  • Donna Canuel on 25 Jul 11
     
    Love this site-have used many of these case studies with great success!
Martin Burrett

Axon - 55 views

axon.wellcomeapps.com

game brain science

shared by Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 04 Sep 12
     
    A logic science game designed to teach about neutrons and the brain. Connect the neutrons to score points a micrometre at a time. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Holly Barlaam

#SciDo Collaborative - 67 views

scido.wikispaces.com

twitter science teacher resources biology chemistry physics

shared by Holly Barlaam on 09 Dec 11 - Cached
  • Holly Barlaam on 09 Dec 11
     
    First Chat then Do! The SciDo Collaborative is a loose affiliation of science teachers coming together to help support the teaching of science in k12 classrooms. It is an attempt to make the ideas shared during #scichat into something tangible and useful.
Martin Burrett

Rizk - 25 views

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/...Rizk.aspx

science games resources sustainability

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  • Martin Burrett on 15 Jul 12
     
    A great science game where players grow high tech plants and find resources. Teaches about sustainability and resource depletion. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Diana Irene Saldana

Computer Science Unplugged | - 48 views

csunplugged.com/

programming computerScience computer_science

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  • Diana Irene Saldana on 06 Nov 13
     
    CS Unplugged is a collection of free learning activities that teach Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to underlying concepts such as binary numbers, algorithms and data compression, separated from the distractions and technical details we usually see with computers. CS Unplugged is suitable for people of all ages, from elementary school to seniors, and from many countries and backgrounds. Unplugged has been used around the world for over fifteen years, in classrooms, science centers, homes, and even for holiday events in a park!
Martin Burrett

Wondermind - Play games & explore your brain - 154 views

wondermind.tate.org.uk

brain science games puzzles

shared by Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 03 Feb 12
     
    A beautifully made science site of games to teach you about the brain. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
Nanette Blank

Global Warming for Non-science Majors - 13 views

www.youtube.com/view_play_list

Science video teaching

shared by Nanette Blank on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Nanette Blank on 21 Apr 10
     
    This 10-week course for non-science majors focuses on a single problem: assessing the risk of human-caused climate change. The story ranges from physics to chemistry, biology, geology, fluid mechanics, and quantum mechanics, to economics and social sciences. The class will consider evidence from the distant past and projections into the distant future, keeping the human time scale of the next several centuries as the bottom line. The lectures follow a textbook, "Global Warming, Understanding the Forecast," written for the course. For information about the textbook, interactive models, and more, visit: http://forecast.uchicago.edu/
Glenda Baker

The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete - 137 views

www.wired.com/...pb_theory

Science Data statistics google technology

shared by Glenda Baker on 27 Sep 11 - Cached
  • sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.
  • The big target here isn't advertising, though. It's science. The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works.
  • But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete.
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  • Petabytes allow us to say: "Correlation is enough."
  • There's no reason to cling to our old ways. It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
  • It's time to ask: What can science learn from Google?
  • Glenda Baker on 27 Sep 11
     
    article discussing whether math models can replace other tools for understanding the world.
  • Wax Brackett on 03 Oct 11
     
    I dissagree. Maybe for someone who can cope with the massive scale Google works with but for the average student bah humbug. As far as the students I see the scientific method still needs to be taught as they need a lot of help learning how to gather reliable information from the web. As far as google is concerned the students simplistic, unevaluated searches are as valuable as someone who actually understands what they are looking for or maybe more valuable because more students are doing almost thoughtless searches. The real need is a good course, hopefully online, to teach students how to do a reasoned search. agoogleaday is a start.
Janet Peters

Technology Integration Matrix - 156 views

fcit.usf.edu/matrix

education matrix pedagogy learning edtech rubric video technology

shared by Janet Peters on 30 May 11 - Cached
  • The site includes 25 videos lesson examples in each of four core subject areas – math, science, language arts, and social studies. These lessons were videotaped in classrooms across Florida.
    • Lucy Gray
      Lucy Gray on 02 Aug 11
       
      Blahblah blah
    • Emily Mann
      Emily Mann on 25 Aug 11
       
      In Chrome I cannot get this sticky to go away.  Why can't I change my settings to not view public notes? I am excited about this matrix and comparing it with Arizona's (AZTIM)
    • Janet Peters
      Janet Peters on 04 Apr 12
       
      The notes are not Public they are from Diigo Education, which is why they aren't going away.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 May 11
     
    "The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning."
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  • Lucy Gray on 02 Aug 11
     
    "The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning."
  • Emily Mann on 25 Aug 11
     
    "The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning."
  • Janet Peters on 04 Apr 12
     
    "The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning."
Roland Gesthuizen

iOS Apps for Science Teachers : Teaching about Sound - 3 views

www.whiteboardblog.co.uk/...-apps-for-teaching-about-sound

sound apps science Physics noise iOS

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 11 Feb 13
     
    "Teaching about sound in the classroom used to involve lots of fiddly bits of kit such as Signal Generators and Decibel Meters that would cost a lot of money and only get wheeled out once a year. Thankfully if you have an iPhone or iPad you can replace quite a bit of that kit with a couple of handy apps which are either free or relatively inexpensive. Here's a couple to get you started:"
trisha_poole

Views: Technology and Teaching - Inside Higher Ed - 43 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ng_technology_to_teach_writing

writing pedagogy technology teaching web2.0 digital literacy literacy english

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  • trisha_poole on 26 Jul 11
     
    Is it a given that technology enhances the acts of writing, as it does the arts and sciences of film-making, design, engineering, data collection and analyses, and so forth? What about the teaching and learning of writing?
Carol Mortensen

National Council of Teachers of English - 35 views

www.ncte.org/tips

Writing writers language arts teachers educational education

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  • Carol Mortensen on 06 Aug 11
     
    The National Council of Teachers of English is devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. This mission statement was adopted in 1990: "The Council promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society, through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language."
Martin Burrett

Effective Group Work by @EducatingMiss - 13 views

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group work

shared by Martin Burrett on 08 May 19 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 May 19
     
    "I never realised that doing group work could be such a controversial activity in teaching until I discovered Twitter! This post is not going to consider if you should use group work, but how to do it effectively should you choose to use it as part of your teaching repertoire. As a science teacher, group work is a given. It just isn't practical to equip every student with every piece of equipment they need to complete an experiment on their own. There is also the issue of time, space and safety, all of which, I feel, may be compromised if you have 28 overenthusiastic students trying to do an experiment at the same time."
Martin Burrett

What Should Schools Teach? 10 suggestions by @RichardJARogers - 23 views

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pedagogy

shared by Martin Burrett on 08 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 08 Apr 18
     
    "I'm one of those few people who can actually say that I use the stuff I was taught in school on daily basis in my job. I'm a Science Teacher: so naturally, I'm teaching my students almost the same things I was taught at school. However, there are a lot of things I had to work out by myself when I left school. Was 'personal experience' the best way to learn these things?"
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