Faculty Learning Community on Science and Math Education

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

TOPIC: Connecting Science Past with Science Future
SUGGESTED READING: "NSTA 2010"
Snacks will be served in Campus Center 200 from 2:30-4pm.

                                                                                            Sunday, March 28, 2010

TOPIC: Coherently Implementing Model-based Inquiry
Learning Across High School Chemistry and Physics Classes

SUGGESTED READING:

SUGGESTED READING below, provided by Julie Booth of Temple University, who will facilitate the conversation.
Snacks will be served in CAMPUS CENTER 200.

SUGGESTED READING
Jeannette M. Wing, "Computational Thinking." 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 

SUGGESTED READING
Mark H. Johnson and Yuko Munakata,"Processes of change in brain and cognitive development." TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences
9, 3 (March 2005): 152-158.

Lunch served in Dorothy Vernon Room of Haffner Dining Hall

Agenda (from Mike Sears):

SUGGESTED READING:
Steven Lindell, "Real-Time Collaboration Tools for Digital Ink"

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: