mobile learning in citizen cyberscience 13 nov 2012
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Presentation to the Mobile Learning MeetUp on December 13th, 2012 - introducing the Citizen Cyberlab project, and how we are studying learning & creativity in participatory and collaborative scienceTRANSCRIPT
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• 5 years of events
• 2,000+ community
• 600+ attendees
• 36 hours of mobile development
• 50 workshops
• 25-30 entries in the Hack Day
Innova.on Consul.ng
An idea-to-launch advisory service for the collaborative development
of mobile products & platforms.
build Tools & Platforms
a 3-year project to
for citizen cyberscience
study Creativity & Learning
Citizen science is scientific research conducted, in whole
or in part, by amateur or nonprofessional scientists, often by crowdsourcing. c
Ci.zen science yields SERIOUS RESULTS
Provided data for dozens of peer-reviewed papers
Discovered cocaine & hormones in Puget Sound drinking water
Showed that birds migrate closer to poles due to global warming
Recording colors of backyard snail shells to help determine if they’re changed with our warming climate.
Building affordable satellites for missions in atmospheric physics to microgravity experiments.
Analyzing wild algae species for their potential to produce biofuels.
Citizen Cyberscience makes use of technology tools and platforms, such as
PCs and mobile phones, to empower crowd-sourced scientific research
Volunteer Compu.ng
Climatepredic.on.net
Distributed Intelligence
www.galaxyzoo.org
Par.cipatory Science
www.epicollect.net
Collabora.ve Science
hHp://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/excites
Community Engagement
1. Grass Roots awareness of Citizen Science
2. Participation in Pilot Projects
3. Participation in Tool Design
4. Designing and launching new Projects
5. Designing and building new Tools
6. Becoming funding or sponsorship Partners of the Citizen CyberLab
Creativity & Learning
1. Motivation
2. Engagement
3. Gamification
4. Learning-by-doing
5. Quantifying learning
6. Collaborative problem-solving
First Initiatives
1. The CCC Website
2. Citizen Science MeetUps Everywhere
3. Facebook
4. Twitter
5. 4 Pilot Projects
