207 research outputs found
Hands-on Science. Celebrating Science and Science Education
The book herein aims to contribute to the improvement of Science Education in our schools and to an effective implementation of a sound widespread scientific literacy at all levels of society
Biodigital philosophy, technological convergence, and new knowledge ecologies
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Springer in Postdigital Science and Education on 11/01/2021, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00211-7
The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.New technological ability is leading postdigital science, where biology as digital information, and digital information as biology, are now dialectically interconnected. In this article we firstly explore a philosophy of biodigitalism as a new paradigm closely linked to bioinformationalism. Both involve the mutual interaction and integration of information and biology, which leads us into discussion of biodigital convergence. As a unified ecosystem this allows us to resolve problems that isolated disciplinary capabilities cannot, creating new knowledge ecologies within a constellation of technoscience. To illustrate our arrival at this historical flash point via several major epistemological shifts in the post-war period, we venture a tentative typology. The convergence between biology and information reconfigures all levels of theory and practice, and even critical reason itself now requires a biodigital interpretation oriented towards ecosystems and coordinated Earth systems. In this understanding, neither the digital humanities, the biohumanities or the posthumanities sit outside of biodigitalism. Instead, posthumanism is but one form of biodigitalism that mediates the biohumanities and the digital humanities, no longer preoccupied with the tradition of the subject, but with the constellation of forces shaping the future of human ontologies. This heralds a new biopolitics which brings the philosophy of race, class, gender and intelligence, into a compelling dialogue with genomics and information
Chairs of Excellence Annual Report 2020
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Leveraging Transmedia Communication Strategies to Improve Engagement and Foster Collaboration in Citizen-Science Projects
The Independent Studies program closed in 2016. This thesis was one of 25 accepted by Library for long-term preservation and presentation in UWSpace.Citizen science is the term used for the practice of harnessing non-expert, volunteer efforts to further scientific research using a crowdsourcing approach to collect, record, and analyze data and to fulfill other task work related to research. Maintaining enough interest and motivation to sustain participant engagement and involvement presents a challenge for project organizers. Current research indicates that a large percentage of participants contribute enthusiastically to citizen-science projects for a short period of time, only to lose interest, disengage from the project, and stop contributing. However, communication strategies can counteract some volunteer attrition by continually underscoring the importance and value of their contributions, and by raising a project's profile to keep it top-of-mind, relevant, and interesting to participants. This thesis explores how citizen-science projects could apply or adapt transmedia storytelling, communication and engagement techniques - particularly in a context similar to documentary filmmaking - in order to reward contributors with a positive, integrated media experience to bolster engagement with the subject matters and the goals of long-term research projects. It will examine the history of public participation in science, the history of modern participatory culture, and how new media strategies can by applied toward a top-down, novice-level, biological - and environmental - monitoring project (the most abundant type of project in citizen science.
Otterbein Aegis Spring 2021
Contents: Editors\u27 Introduction, Editorial Board Members, COVID-19 as the Collapse of Capitalism: A Socio-Political Marxist Analysis of the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Future, Going Out in Style: How Stylistics Can Disrupt the Problematic Literary Canon, Ideal Kingship: How Christianity Was Seen as an Important Instrument to Authoritarian Rule in the Frankish Empire, Masochism and Sinthomsexuality: Caleb and Ava\u27s Relationship in Alex Garland\u27s Ex Machina, Notes on Melodrama: Women, Madness, and the Oppression of the Patriarchy, The Differing Moralities of the Renaissance Play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus and the Medieval Morality Play Everyman, The Dissolute Punished: An Overview of Mozart\u27s Don Giovanni, K. 527, The Use of Narrative in the Art of Faith Ringgold, T.S. Eliot: Reinventing the Modernist Tradition, COVID-19 Lockdowns Disrupt Conversation, The Vulnerability of Nurses, Where Resources Should Go, Racial Weathering and Other Flaws in the Utilitarian Approach to Economic Lockdown, Interview with Dr. Alexander Rocklin, Interview with Dr. Scott Muir, Book Review: Cherry, Book Review: Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America\u27s Universities, Book Review: Hurricane Season, Book Review: Latitudes of Longing, Book Review: Little Fires Everywhere, Book Review: Marvelous Pigness of Pigs, Book Review: Night Film, Book Review: Temporary, Book Review: The Book of Longings, Book Review: The Lady\u27s Handbook for her Mysterious Illness, Book Review: The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, Book Review: There There, Book Review: Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Book Review: 101 Essays That Will Change the Way you Thinkhttps://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/aegis_humanity/1018/thumbnail.jp
Hands-on science: science education with and for society
The decisive importance of Science on the development of modern societies gives Science
Education a role of special impact.
Society sets the requirements rules and procedures of Education defining what concepts and
competencies citizens must learn and how this learning should take place. Educational
policies set by governments, elected and or imposed, not always reflects the will and ruling of
Society.
The School as pivotal element of our modern educational system must look behind and
beyond imposed rules and regulations and persistently seek a permanent and open relation
with Society, in all its dimensions, assuming and defending its crucial role on the
development of Society and humankind.
Aiming to contribute to an effective implementation of a sound widespread scientific literacy
and effective Science Education in our Schools and Society at large, the Hands-on Science
Network promotes a number of meetings and conferences open to the widest range of
contributions on different pedagogic approaches with the common goal of promoting an
effective learning of Science.
This book gathers a number of interesting works presented at the 11th International
Conference on Hands-on Science held in Aveiro, Portugal, July 21 to 25, 2014. The different
chapters covers a wide range of topics including different strategies on connecting school’
science education with society and on synergetic relations between Society and Science
Education, reports on good practices on formal as well as non-formal or informal science
education, ICT tools, IBSE, active learning and hands-on pedagogy. We believe that the
materials herein are a rather useful tool to assist teachers and educators as well as all
interested in Science Education and its impact on the development of our Societies
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