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This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting. The Prairie Science project is about facilitating learning STEM concepts by integrating a historical perspective (Conner Prairie Museum) and a science center-based perspective (Science Museum of Minnesota).
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TEAM MEMBERS: Cathy Ferree
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This chapter discusses variation in the organization of children’s involvement in cultural activities. In particular, we examine three widespread cultural traditions that organize children’s learning and participation in cultural activities: intent community participation, assembly-line instruction, and guided repetition. We argue that investigating the organization of children’s participation in routine activities offers a way to address the dynamic nature of repertoires of cultural practices—the formats of (inter)action with which individuals have experience and may take up, resist, and
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TEAM MEMBERS: Barbara Rogoff Leslie Moore Behnosh Najafi Amy Dexter Marciela Correa-Chavez Jocelyn Solis
resource research Media and Technology
Traditionally, collaborative technologies are intended to directly support joint, collaborative activity, taking their cues from communication and media. Here, empirical findings are presented about the types of information needs associated with the formation of a knowledge-building community among professional learning technology researchers. Several issues are outlined in designing, facilitating, supporting, and measuring knowledge-building activity in such as community of practice. It is argued that, rather than communication tools, a knowledge-building community is better served by
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TEAM MEMBERS: Christopher Hoadley Roy Pea
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The body of work that examines conversation in learning environments continues to grow seemingly exponentially. At the heart of much of this work is a sense that learning and conversation are somehow linked. This idea can be connected to the theories of Vygotsky (1978), which suggest that people learn by participating in social situations using tools like language. People then internalize the ideas that are expressed in interaction, inserting these ideas into complex networks of knowledge. What we would like to be able to do is identify how people learn in conversations so that we may plan for
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TEAM MEMBERS: Jill Hohenstein
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This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting in Washington, DC. It describes a project that uses the living laboratory model of informal cognitive science education to establish additional museum hubs.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Museum of Science, Boston Becki Kipling Marta Biarnes
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This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting held in Washington, DC. The project creates a STEM ecosystem in a severely under-resourced urban community. The Chicago Zoological Society, which operates Brookfield Zoo, is expanding a community partnership with Eden Place Nature Center in Chicago’s Fuller Park Neighborhood and offering a full suite of environmental science learning opportunities for teachers, youth, families, and adults. A research component is led by the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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This poster was presented at the 2014 AISL PI Meeting held in Washington, DC. It describes a project created to design, develop, implement, research, and evaluate a cyberlaboratory in a museum setting.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Oregon State University Shawn Rowe
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Marcellus Matters: Engaging Adults in Science and Energy, grant # DRL1114670, poster for the 2014 AISL PI Meeting poster session on August 21, 2014.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Penn State University, Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research Terry Z. Noll
resource research Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, understanding the need for policy makers at the national level to entrain the behavioral and social sciences in addressing the challenges of global climate change, called on the National Research Council to organize two workshops to showcase some of the decision-relevant contributions that these sciences have already made and can advance with future efforts. The workshops focused on two broad areas: (1) mitigation (behavioral elements of a strategy to reduce the net future human influence on climate) and (2) adaptation (behavioral and social
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TEAM MEMBERS: Paul Stern Roger Kasperson
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Everyone--government agencies, private organizations, and individuals--is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local agencies in particular, as well as the federal government, need to consider what they will have to do differently if the 100-year flood arrives every decade or so, if the protected areas for threatened species are no longer habitable, or if a region can expect more frequent and more severe wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, water shortages, or other extreme environmental events
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TEAM MEMBERS: National Research Council
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The notion that science is unified in one way or another dates back at least to Aristotle, though unity claims since then have been diverse and va riously motivated. By way of introduction to the modern discussion of unity, disunity, and integration, in this first section we examine five historical attempts to unify knowledge: Aristotle’s metaphysical and hierarchical unity; the Enlightenment project of the French Encyclopedists; the systematic unity of Naturphilosophen Lorenz Oken; the methodological unity of the Vienna School’s Encyclopedia of Unified Science; and finally, the organizational
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TEAM MEMBERS: William Bechtel Andrew Hamilton
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This report from the 2013 Maker Impact Summit proposes ways in which the future economic and social landscape will be shaped by the Maker Movement.
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TEAM MEMBERS: Maggie Wool