tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941612014165723839.post3489068753488694416..comments2014-11-06T11:05:36.172-08:00Comments on Science Literacies 2014: Designing Learning Environments Across SettingsAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04288157704159727422noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941612014165723839.post-66198810268163077862014-11-06T11:05:36.172-08:002014-11-06T11:05:36.172-08:00It could be cool to have the students influence le...It could be cool to have the students influence lessons through field trip suggestions. Giving the students an opportunity to explore their own inquiries and figure out a place where we might be able to go as a class to observe a phenomena or learn more about a topic would be extremely interesting. It would elicit great student contribution and the engagement would certainly be there. It would simply be up to us teachers to make sure that the field trip could and should be approved and figure out how to structure the learning around this field trip. This is kinda what we talked about last week with a class centered around the tweets. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00275513447950084050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941612014165723839.post-71163231107450886342014-11-05T10:43:25.575-08:002014-11-05T10:43:25.575-08:00I wonder how these outside experiences could be in...I wonder how these outside experiences could be incorporated into a modeling sequence. You could have students spend time working with a phenomena, modeling it and trying to explain it for a day or so, then you could have some kind of out of class experience, field-trip or even homework assignment where students see it in the real world in the midst of the modeling process, and then they come back and revise their model based on their new experience. That could make for a great modeling sequence, and could really challenge students' preconceived models. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01391018891349243090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4941612014165723839.post-30356135033524691792014-11-05T05:46:07.069-08:002014-11-05T05:46:07.069-08:00I agree that scientific learning never stops, and ...I agree that scientific learning never stops, and that these authors are trying to tell us to encourage that within students. The informal education can boost intrinsic motivation within students, and they would be more interested in a formal education setting to learn more. There, of course, would still have to be a certain amount of autonomy, so the students can explore how they want, and then use modeling, explanation, and argumentation to share what they learned with others int the classroom. I feel that these readings support that science education should have many different venues in which to teach students science and engineering practices. Hopefully, these methods will motivate students who do not lean towards science as much. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11549437410221232637noreply@blogger.com