Agenda

1. Developing 21st Century Skills with Investigative Cases: Building Global AwarenessMargaret Waterman, Ph.D. Biology DepartmentSoutheast Missouri State UniversityCollege of Science, Technology and AgricultureHonors ConvocationApril 23, 2012

2. Agenda What are 21st century skills? How can we teach to accomplish these? Investigative Cases & Cyberlearning

3. 21st Century Skills 4 Cs • Critical thinking and problem solving • Creativity and innovation • Communication • Collaboration • www.p21.org Interdisciplinary Themes  Global Awareness  Financial, Economic, Business Literacy  Civic Literacy

4. How can we teach to address 21st century skills? Make teaching problem centered Doing this leads to interdisciplinary learning Teach 21st century learners Technology savvy Cyberlearning tools and resources

5. Most important: Use Knowledge of How People Learn Teach content within MEANINGFUL realistic contexts • Stories • Cases • Projects • Problems

6. Investigative Cases • Started in medical schools in 1970s as PBL. • Modified PBL for science starting in late 80s, early 90s. • Investigative Cases started in mid 90s, adding the scientific inquiry side to PBL

7. May, 2010, Near Mobile Alabama "Hmph," Ramona grunted as she read the local news online at the coffee shop. "What now?" her friend Gil asked. "Well, it looks like BP is going to pay for protecting our beaches here in Alabama," she said, "but they only have enough materials to protect 25% of the coast!  It says that if the spill keeps gushing, we’ll have oil onshore by mid June." • Mobile Bay Alabama, near Gil and Ramona's neighborhood • http://www.co.baldwin.al.us/Uploads/Images/Mobile%20Bay%20Aerial.JPG “That’s just about a month," Gil figured.  "I wonder how they’ll decide?“ “They say that a team of experts from NOAA and locals are going to use something called an ESI map.“ "Hmph," Gil said.

8. Start with a Story • Ask “What is this story about?” • Ask “what do you already know about the story?” • And “What do you need to find out?” • Discuss the things students know, what they need to know and then….

9. Linking Investigative Cases to Cyberlearning Tools Examples • Remote sensing • Simulations • Data visualization tools Waterman & Stanley 2011

11. What happened after the spill? http://seahorse2.nmfs.noaa.gov/restoration_atlas/src/html/index.html

12. So far: • Used a story to have land-bound midwesterners think about the ecology of another part of the US • NEXT • Gaining even broader perspective by using a global problem.

13. What’s for Lunch? At the Towers Cafeteria, Yuki picked up her order of fresh orange juice and a plate of stir fried chicken and vegetables. Now it was Elise’s turn. “Cheeseburger and milk, please,” Elise told the server. As they carried their food to the table, Yuki asked “How can you eat that? It costs so much.” “What do you mean? It’s only $2.95 on special.,” Elise said. “And, after all my workouts at the gym, I’ve earned it!” “That’s not what I’m talking about,” Yuki said.

14. Yuki pulled out a magazine and showed Elise this page.

15. http://footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/personal_footprint/http://footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/personal_footprint/ My footprint My footprint in India

16. Use a Carbon Tracker to Develop Awareness • http://www.climatechange.sg/html/?link=4

18. Online tools for data visualization Used for Interdisciplinarity, developing questions and hypotheses, examining relationships among variables, interpreting data Worldmapper www.Worldmapper.org Gapminder: A Data Centered View of the World www. Gapminder.org

19. Objective: Tools for Visualizing Data www.worldmapper.org http://bioquest.org/icbl

20. Total Carbon emissions by country www.worldmapper.org http://bioquest.org/icbl

22. Gapminder: redisplaying same data AND ?? http://bioquest.org/icbl

23. What else can affect life expectancy?

24. NSF RCN-UBE 1062049

25. Collaborator Dr. Ethel Stanley, Director of BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium Funding: Margaret Waterman, 2011 http://bioquest.org/icbl

26. THANK YOU!!