Welcome. This page provides a continually updated list of links to materials created in connection with the BiCo Faculty Learning Community on Science and Math Education. The group first met on 5 October 2009 and will be meeting in the future ever two weeks. Meeting reports include on-line forums for further discussion by group members and any other interested people. For further information about the group contact Howard Glasser [1].
Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (April 29, 2010) [10]
TOPIC:
Reflections on a journey toward science education as conversation
or
The theory and practice of science as "co-generative dialogue"?
Paul Grobstein will briefly describe and reflect on his own experiences with trying to get science education "less wrong," with the objective of providing a framework that will encourage and support continuing conversation about a number of issues that have come up in our meeting this year. Among them are
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (April 15, 2010) [13]
TOPIC: Connecting Science Past with Science Future
SUGGESTED READING: "NSTA 2010" [14]
Snacks will be served in Campus Center 200 from 2:30-4pm.
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (April 1, 2010) [16]
TOPIC: Technology in Education
SUGGESTED READING:
“Tapscott on Changing Pedagogy for the Net Generation [17]” and the executive summary [18] of the draft National Educational Technology Plan.
Snacks will be served in Campus Center 200 from 2:30-4pm.
- 4 comments [19]
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (March 18, 2010) [20]
TOPIC: Coherently Implementing Model-based Inquiry
Learning Across High School Chemistry and Physics Classes
[21]
[21]SUGGESTED READING:
- 3 comments [22]
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (March 4, 2010) [23]
SUGGESTED READING:
M.A. Papalaskari et. al, "PIVOTS: Service Learning at the Science, Theatre & Magic Boundary." [24]
IEEE October 28 – 31, 2006, San Diego, CA
Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (February 18, 2010) [26]
SUGGESTED READING below, provided by Julie Booth of Temple University, who will facilitate the conversation.
Snacks will be served in CAMPUS CENTER 200.
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (February 4, 2010) [28]
SUGGESTED READING: Richard Mayer, "Can Problem Solving Skills be Taught?" Learning and Instruction.
Bill Huber will facilitate a conversation on transfer.
- 5 comments [29]
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (January 21, 2010) [30]
SUGGESTED READING
Jeannette M. Wing, "Computational Thinking." [31] Communications of the ACM 49, 3 (March 2006).
Snacks will be served in the Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall
AGENDA:
a discussion of technology in the educational process,
led by John Dougherty and Bill Huber
- 2 comments [32]
Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (December 14, 2009) [33]
SUGGESTED READING
Lewis Hyde, Chapter 3: "The Labor of Gratitude." [34] The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property.
Lunch served in Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall
Agenda (from Alice Lesnick):
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (November 30, 2009) [36]
SUGGESTED READING
Mark H. Johnson and Yuko Munakata," [37]Processes of change in brain and cognitive development." [37] TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences
9, 3 (March 2005): 152-158.
Lunch served in Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall
Agenda (from Mike Sears):
- 2 comments [38]
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Faculty Learning Community: Agenda and Notes (November 16, 2009) [39]
SUGGESTED VIEWING:
http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=77 [40]
Click on “VoD” to the right of “2. Lessons From Thin Air.
Lunch served in Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall
Agenda (from Steve Lindell):
- 2 comments [41]
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Faculty Learning Commmunity: Agenda and Notes (November 2, 2009) [42]
SUGGESTED READING:
Steven Lindell, "Real-Time Collaboration Tools for Digital Ink [43]"
Lunch served in Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall
Plan for 11/5/09
I. Howard
any group-keeping items? Who's our note-taker? What are our plans for Nov. 16 mtg?
II. Anne
two weeks ago, we reviewed the history of the "hard science" of educational research,
looking @ how it remade itself from what was largely a humanistic field into a "scientistic" one:
- 2 comments [44]
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