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resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks

Science Education: From Separation to Integration

Advances in technology, science, and learning sciences research over the past 100 years have reshaped science education. This chapter focuses on how investigators from varied fields of inquiry who initially worked separately began to interact, eventually formed partnerships, and recently integrated their perspectives to strengthen science education. Advances depended on the broadening of the participants in science education research, starting with psychologists, science discipline experts, and science educators; adding science teachers, psychometricians, computer scientists, and sociologists
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marcia Linn Libby Gerard Camillia Matuk Kevin Mcelhaney
resource research Public Programs

Making science understandable and meaningful: Bridging the gap between formal education and informal learning

This conference presentation explores the gap between formal education and informal education, with special attention to science center pedagogy.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Hannu Salmi
resource research Public Programs

Making science understandable and meaningful: Bridging the gap between formal education and informal learning

This conference presentation explores the gap between formal education and informal education, with special attention to science center pedagogy.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Hannu Salmi
resource research Exhibitions

The authentic object? A child's-eye view

In this chapter, we argue that the understanding of objects that children of different ages brings to the museum setting offers a unique perspective. Little direct work on this topic has been conducted in museums. However, there is a body of related work to be found in contemporary studies of children's emerging understanding of the natural and artificial worlds that can be used to develop a framework for understanding how children might approach the world of museum objects. Recent evidence on the development of children's thinking on this subject is presented in the larger context of the
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TEAM MEMBERS: E. Margaret Evans Melinda Mull Devereaux Poling
resource research Media and Technology

Knowledge Building: Theory, Pedagogy, and Technology

Knowledge building, as elaborated in this chapter, represents an attempt to refashion education in a fundamental way, so that it becomes a coherent effort to initiate students into a knowledge creating culture. Accordingly, it involves students not only developing knowledge-building competencies but also coming to see themselves and their work as part of the civilization-wide effort to advance knowledge frontiers. In this context, the Internet becomes more than a desktop library and a rapid mail-delivery system. It becomes the first realistic means for students to connect with civilization
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TEAM MEMBERS: Marlene Scardamalia Carl Bereiter
resource research Exhibitions

Building Islands of Expertise in Everyday Family Activity

In this chapter we introduce the notion of islands of expertise, explore links between related socio-cultural and information processing theory, and overview a study of family conversations while parents and children look at authentic and replica fossils in a museum.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Kevin Crowley Melanie Jacobs