scholarly journals Weaving together the past, present and future in whole class conversations: analyzing the emergence of a hybrid educational chronotope connecting everyday experiences and school science

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Kenneth Silseth ◽  
Hans Christian Arnseth
Keyword(s):  
School Science ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Whole Class

Glenn Commission….This is High School Science ….We Have Liftoff!

2011 ◽  
Vol 1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Ireland ◽  
Daniel J. Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
High School ◽  
Value Added ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Science Program ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quality Professional Development

ABSTRACTBeing a dedicated and enthusiastic high school science teacher is not enough to successfully prepare our children to take on the challenges of the 21st century and live up to its potential. We need high quality professional development opportunities in order to enrich our subject knowledge and teaching skills and reflect these skills in our craft. The Glenn Commission report, released ten years ago, details goals and associated action strategies included addressing professional development needs in order to deliver high-quality teaching as well as providing for teachers to engage in common study. We typically must scrutinize long lists of potential development opportunities to weigh the value of the program against the commitment of time and likelihood that intent of the training can be implemented. Beyond the training comes the quest for resources necessary for implementation and support to sustain the intent once new ideas and skills are brought back to school. Too often do teachers get their batteries charged from a professional development experience only to return to school where they become challenged to employ new skills or ideas and become further discouraged if there is no sustained support from the professional development sponsor. The best value-added programs that I have experienced are those where professional relationships can be forged through a significant and meaningful experience. Through these relationships, support networks can be established to help sustain knowledge and initiatives to provide a world-class education for our children.I have had the excellent fortune to experience a top quality professional development program at the Princeton Center for Complex Materials (PCCM), a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). My experience with the PCCM programs has demonstrated to me how a truly effective program can change lives. Over the past six consecutive summers I have gained invaluable experience starting with the Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program and subsequent involvement with PUMA and other PCCM programs that have provided me with the necessary resources to improve my teaching skills, depth of knowledge in my discipline and enable me to sustain a higher quality science program at my school. Through the RET program, I engaged directly with professors for two consecutive summers who were enthusiastic about helping improve my teaching skills and supportive of my pursuit to improve the science program at my school. This experience has led to the development of two new courses I have been able to offer for the past four years in Chemistry and Materials Science designed to engage students through hands on experiences. It was this experience that became the catalyst for me to further collaborate with local industry professionals who joined my cause and also helped in the development of one of the two new courses. Through this short paper, I will expand on my professional development experiences over the past six years to demonstrate how others can maximize opportunities provided by MRSEC educational outreach programs.

For Your Information

1982 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Keyword(s):  
American Indians ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Primate Behavior ◽  
Graduate Course ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The Past ◽  
Washington University

The George Washington University/Smithsonian Institution Anthropology for Teachers Program, funded by the National Science Foundation for a fourth year, operates on two levels. Intensively, 72 junior and senior high school science and social studies teachers in the Washington, D. C., area spend a year in a graduate course specifically designed to enable the integration of anthropology into various course offerings. The course focuses on eight topics useful in teaching other subjects (such as biology, geography and world cultures). These include: Primate Behavior, Human Evolution, Civilizations of the Past: Archeology and Ecology, Anthropologists in the Field, American Indians, Growing Up in Africa, Human Variation, and Anthropologists Look at America. For each topic there is a lecture, experiential teaching activities, a discussion with research scientists in that field, and a workshop during which participating teachers share curriculum units they have developed on the particular topic.

scholarly journals Hackers and Cyborgs: Binary Domain and Two Formative Videogame Technicities

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Keogh
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Virtual Character ◽  
Consumer Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Through the course of Binary Domain’s action-packed narrative, it becomes increasingly unclear who is human, who is machine, and who is somewhere in between. Ultimately, such a distinction is futile when our everyday experiences are so ubiquitously augmented by technologies—even the act of playing Binary Domain by coupling with a virtual character through a videogame controller challenges any clear distinction between human and machine. While such themes are not new to science fiction, the anxieties expressed by Binary Domain’s characters are relevant to what have emerged over the past twenty- five years as two formative modes of identifying with videogames: the dominant hacker and the integrated cyborg. The hacker, an identity that the dominant and hegemonic ‘gamer’ consumer identity can trace a clear lineage from, comes to represent the masculinist, mastery-focused identity that most blockbuster games celebrate. The cyborg emerges in resistance to the hacker, pointing to a diversity of forms and identities that are focused less on mastering the machine than participating with it. This paper uses Binary Domain’s complex anxieties towards technology as a lens through which to trace the histories of these constitutive modes of identifying with videogames, and to demonstrate the influence they have on videogame forms and audiences.

Investigations of Exemplary Practice in High School Science and Mathematics

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Tobin ◽  
Barry J. Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Exemplary Teachers ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Past Research ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Classroom Management Strategies ◽  
Whole Class ◽  
And Mathematics

Past research has often highlighted problems of science and mathematics education. As a consequence, case studies of exemplary teachers were conducted to emphasize positive aspects and to stimulate and improve science and mathematics education. Comparisons of three exemplary teachers with colleagues from the same schools indicated that the exemplary teachers used effective classroom management strategies; used a range of whole-class, small-group and seat-work activities; kept students on-task; and monitored the extent to which students understood the content to be learned. In contrast, the comparison teachers had difficulty in maintaining discipline, emphasized whole-class activities and focused on content coverage rather than student understanding.

Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

The Origin of the Moon and its Relationship to the Origin of the Solar System

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold C. Urey
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

During the last 10 years, the writer has presented evidence indicating that the Moon was captured by the Earth and that the large collisions with its surface occurred within a surprisingly short period of time. These observations have been a continuous preoccupation during the past years and some explanation that seemed physically possible and reasonably probable has been sought.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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