Tag: science

Week 8: Informal Science Learning

This week’s readings looked at how scientific habits can be formed, fostered, and adapted. Crowley et al.’s look at parents’ explanations to their children featured specific, though “inconclusive,” evidence of its findings that parents explain scientific phenomena more to boys than to girls. Parents have go beyond simply bring their children to the museum, they… Read more Week 8: Informal Science Learning

Week 8 Discussion - Juan G

In regards to parents explaining more to boys than girls when it comes to science, recently we have seen toy companies and the media trying to demonstrate the importance of attracting girls to the science field, I wonder the effects of  these on the average parent perspective. Challenging parents’ ideas becomes even harder in cultures that… Read more Week 8 Discussion - Juan G

Week 8 response - "a reason to reason"

The Steinkuehler and Duncan reading touches on something important that I think has less to do with science education than with the motivation and purpose behind reasoning and learning. Their argument is that games, and particularly MMORPGs like World of Warcraft,  might be excellent settings to foster scientific thinking. They note that in the WoW online forums,… Read more Week 8 response - "a reason to reason"