improving the public’s ocean science literacy what can informal science education do to help?
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Improving the Public’s Ocean Science Literacy What Can Informal Science Education Do to Help?. Alan J. Friedman Consultant Museum Development & Science Communication. Informal Science Education. Learning during the 95% of our lives which we spend outside the formal education system - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Improving the Public’s Ocean Science Literacy
What Can Informal Science Education Do to Help?
Alan J. Friedman
Consultant
Museum Development & Science Communication
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 2
Informal Science Education
Learning during the 95% of our lives which we spend outside the formal education system
Also called “free choice learning,” because learners set their own agenda
Includes aquariums, museums, zoos, botanic gardens, and visitor centers, plus television, magazines, books, libraries, the Internet
61% of all adults visit an ISE institution at least once a year
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 3
What impact can we expect informal learning to have in generating public science literacy
for K-16 students and adults?
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 4
A Bayer/NSF Survey of what got scientists interested in science when they were children
found the top reasons cited were:
Being encouraged by a parent or teacher
Taking a school science class
Playing with science toys or equipment
Seeing science in mass media
Visiting science museums or zoos
Doing science experiments at home
1998, Bayer/NSF survey conducted by Roper Starch based on polling more than 1,400 male and female Ph.D. scientists
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 5
Jon Miller’s ongoing studies of adult science literacy found only two factors were statistically significant predictors:
Number of college science courses taken
Amount of use of informal science learning (museums, zoos, newspapers, TV, Internet, etc.)
Jon Miller, Michigan State University/NSF
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 6
Robert Tai and colleagues asked what best predicts a college degree in science for an
8th grade student. The key factor was:
Expectation of a science career in 8th grade
Expectation was shown to be a more powerful predictor of a science career than high school math scores
Robert Tai et al., Science
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 7
So if informal science education helps improve science literacy, how can COSEE-
Ocean make use of that channel?
tryscience.org Find just
about every science museum on the planet; dozens of vetted activities from science museums for use on or off-line; in 9 languages
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 8
Citizenscience.org
– Individuals, families, students do data collection and analysis for real science research
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 9
Nobelprize.org
– Exquisite simulation activities of real experiments, inspiring stories, and more
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 10
Sciencebuddies.org
– Hundreds of inquiry science fair projects, way beyond that model volcano; career advice and more
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 11
pbskids.org/designsquad/
– The TV show is cool, but even better are teens doing engineering for delight at school or at home
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 12
Sciencefriday.com
– Millions listen, but even more get it through the web, Podcasts, blogs, SecondLife, ….
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 13
To get even more, we can form partnerships with informal science education providers
www.astc.orgfor science centers & museums
www.ips-planetarium.org for planetariums
www.aza.org for zoos and aquariums
www.publicgardens.org for botanical gardens and arboreta
www.cpb.org/aboutpb for public radio and TV
www.scienceafterschool.org for community afterschool providers
4-H.org/programs_mission_mandates/set.html for community science programs nationwide
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Alan J. Friedman, Consultant 14
Three Useful Recent References
“The 95 Percent Solution,” Falk, J.H. and Dierking, L. D., American Scientist (2010), v. 98, pp. 486-493. A manifesto declaring the importance, even the necessity, of informal science education.
“Executive Summary,” Learning Science in Informal Environments http://books.nap.edu/catalog/12190.html. The NRC’s 2009 big synthesis study.
Framework for Evaluating Impacts of Informal Science Education Projects, A. Friedman, ed. http://insci.org/docs/Eval_Framework.pdf. 2008 NSF report on evaluating effectiveness of ISE activities