21 st Century Science Education

1. 21st Century Science Education Using ICT to Develop Authentic Science Practice

2. Summary Slide • Chapter 1: Setting the Stage • Chapter 2: New Thinking About Science • Chapter 3: New Thinking About Science Teaching & Learning • Chapter 4: Implementing a 21st Century Program Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

3. Chapter 1: Setting the Stage The technologies of 2020...could transform the quality of human life, extend human lifespan, change the face of work & industry and establish new economic & political powers on the global scene. Countries that are not scientifically advanced will have to develop significant capacity & motivation before barriers to technology implementation can be overcome. RAND, 2006 Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

4. Cheap solar energy Rural wireless Devices for ubiquitous information access Genetically modified crops Rapid bioassays Filters and catalysts Targeted drug delivery Cheap autonomous housing Green manufacturing Ubiquitous RFID Hybrid vehicles Pervasive sensors Tissue engineering Improved diagnostic and surgical methods Wearable computers Quantum cryptography 16 Top Technologies for 2020 Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

5. Advanced Proficient Developing Lagging Capacity to Acquire Technologies Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

6. Education and literacy Cost and financing Laws & policies Social values, public opinion, politics Infrastructure Privacy Concerns Resources R & D investment Population & demographics Drivers and Barriers Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

7. STEM & New Millennium Participation • Cost of labor • Availability & cost of capital • Availability & cost of research and innovation talent • Availability of qualified workforce • Taxation environment • Indirect costs • Quality of research universities • Convenience of transportation and communication • Fraction of national R & D supported by government Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

8. Chapter 2: New Thinking About Science A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything. Postman, 1993 It is not the machines but what individuals or groups do with them that is relevant to social change and important for social inclusion. Yelland, 2007 Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

9. Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Fool Around Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

10. Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Fool Around Conceptualize Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

11. Scientific Practice as Human Sentience Fool Around + Virtuous Cycle Conceptualize Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

12. Science in the Digital Millennium Interactive Fool Around + Virtuous Cycle Conceptualize Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

13. Science in the Digital Millennium Interactive Fool Around + Virtuous Cycle Conceptualize Visualization Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

14. 21st Century Science • Science process: iteration between fooling around and conceptualizing • Authentic science in the digital millennium: interactive visualization Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

15. Chapter 3: New Thinking & Science Learning Literacy & ICT access are closely connected to advances in human communication and the means of knowledge production. Warschauer, 2004 Traditional schools & their science curricula are more suited to the needs of the industrial age science than those of the information age. Yelland, 2007 Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

16. Schooling in the 21st Century Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

17. Preparing Teachers: Minds-on Science Teaching • Knowledge construction • Guided inquiry for conceptual change • Inquiry-based approaches • Students as 21st century scientists • Content-based solutions • Standards-based content • Integrate with normal classroom activity Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

18. Preparing Students: Minds-on Science Learning • Requires active and interactive engagement • 21st century science is interacive visualization • Builds on prior knowledge • Coordinate predictions with evidence • Exploits multiple representations • Different views, different perspectives • Focuses on higher-order model-building skills • Concepts not tedium Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

19. More Efficient Use of Time with Probeware Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

20. Higher NAEP Scores with Probeware • Students who use probeware embedded in enabling contexts score significantly higher • More frequent use correlates with even higher scores. Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

21. Chapter 4: Implementing a 21st Century Program Children cannot be effective in tomorrow’s world if they are trained in yesterday’s skills. DFEE 1997, 1 We live in a data drenched society (Steen, 1999) full of data smog (Shenk, 1997). We need to provide students with the skills necessary to construct new knowledge from existing knowledge. Grant, 2007 Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

22. Developing 21st Century Standards • Content geared to new science knowledge requirements. • ICT selected to develop new science skills. • Assessments geared to measure new science performance outcomes. • Training developed to support new science inquiry pedagogies. Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

23. Middle School Projects • Kazakhstan – 2500 schools • Mexico – Edo. Mexico, Veracruz, Sinaloa • Peru – Arequipa, MoE • Egypt MoE • Algeria - MoE • Saudi Arabia Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

24. Middle School Projects • Customize program to local requirements • Long-term Partnership • Local curriculum standard • Teacher development • Online Training • Pedagogy support • Project Assessment Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery

25. When You Succeed, They Succeed And When They Succeed, Qatar Succeeds! Activate Inquiry, Inspire Discovery