21 st Century Science Education Using ICT to Develop Authentic Science Practice

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Summary Slide Chapter 1: Setting the Stage Chapter 2: New Thinking About Science Chapter 3: New Thinking About Science Teaching & Learning Chapter 4: Implementing a 21st Century Program

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Chapter 1: Setting the Stage Countries that are not scientifically advanced will have to develop significant capacity & motivation before barriers to technology implementation can be overcome. RAND, 2006 The technologies of could transform the quality of human life, extend human lifespan, change the face of work & industry and establish new economic & political powers on the global scene.

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery 16 Top Technologies for Cheap solar energy 2.Rural wireless 3.Devices for ubiquitous information access 4.Genetically modified crops 5.Rapid bioassays 6.Filters and catalysts 7.Targeted drug delivery 8.Cheap autonomous housing 9.Green manufacturing 10.Ubiquitous RFID 11.Hybrid vehicles 12.Pervasive sensors 13.Tissue engineering 14.Improved diagnostic and surgical methods 15.Wearable computers 16.Quantum cryptography

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Capacity to Acquire Technologies Advanced Proficient Developing Lagging

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Drivers and Barriers Education and literacy Cost and financing Laws & policies Social values, public opinion, politics Infrastructure Privacy Concerns Resources R & D investment Population & demographics

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery STEM & New Millennium Participation Cost of labor Availability & cost of capital Availability & cost of research and innovation talent Availability of qualified workforce Taxation environment Indirect costs Quality of research universities Convenience of transportation and communication Fraction of national R & D supported by government

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Chapter 2: New Thinking About Science A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything. Postman, 1993 It is not the machines but what individuals or groups do with them that is relevant to social change and important for social inclusion. Yelland, 2007

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Fool Around

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Conceptualize Fool Around

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Conceptualize Fool Around + Virtuous Cycle

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Science in the Digital Millennium Conceptualize Fool Around Interactive + Virtuous Cycle

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Science in the Digital Millennium Fool Around Conceptualize Interactive Visualization + Virtuous Cycle

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery 21 st Century Science Science process: iteration between fooling around and conceptualizing Authentic science in the digital millennium: interactive visualization

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Chapter 3: New Thinking & Science Learning Traditional schools & their science curricula are more suited to the needs of the industrial age science than those of the information age. Yelland, 2007 Literacy & ICT access are closely connected to advances in human communication and the means of knowledge production. Warschauer, 2004

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Schooling in the 21 st Century

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Preparing Teachers: Minds-on Science Teaching Knowledge construction  Guided inquiry for conceptual change Inquiry-based approaches  Students as 21 st century scientists Content-based solutions  Standards-based content  Integrate with normal classroom activity

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Preparing Students: Minds-on Science Learning Requires active and interactive engagement  21 st century science is interacive visualization  Builds on prior knowledge  Coordinate predictions with evidence Exploits multiple representations  Different views, different perspectives Focuses on higher-order model-building skills  Concepts not tedium

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery More Efficient Use of Time with Probeware

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Higher NAEP Scores with Probeware Students who use probeware embedded in enabling contexts score significantly higher More frequent use correlates with even higher scores.

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Chapter 4: Implementing a 21 st Century Program We live in a data drenched society (Steen, 1999) full of data smog (Shenk, 1997). We need to provide students with the skills necessary to construct new knowledge from existing knowledge. Grant, 2007 Children cannot be effective in tomorrow’s world if they are trained in yesterday’s skills. DFEE 1997, 1

Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery Developing 21 st Century Standards Content geared to new science knowledge requirements. ICT selected to develop new science skills. Assessments geared to measure new science performance outcomes. Training developed to support new science inquiry pedagogies.

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