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2 Introduction to Informal Learning
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... chemistry and informal education, and filmmaker Stephen Ellenbogen said that one exciting conclusion of the LSIE Lyons discussed the changing role of video and films in report was that many opportunities exist to fill the unused communicating chemistry. In addition, the speakers specifi educational time and provide an interconnected network of cally addressed the challenges and opportunities for com informal learning environments.
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... Shouse, and Michael A Feder, Editors, Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments, National Research Council.
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... At the same time, she noted that one of the interesting things to come out of the study is there is still a great deal unknown, despite the rich body of research and evaluation in informal science education, She said there is a lot to be learned about effectiveness of different media formats and how they lead 4For more information, see www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/BOSE_ to good decision making in people's everyday life. Resources.html (accessed December 27, 2010)
From page 7...
... "It is something that is really underutilized in an informal Jeannette Brown commented about early experiences in learning experience." science. She mentioned that the Chemical Heritage Founda tion is collecting video oral histories of women in science, Science Identity and Brown is also collecting oral histories of African-Amer ican women in science.
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... The same thing goes for when you look at of peer modeling that goes on." Ellenbogen mentioned that how multiple people view the same media program." Dirk vom Lehn at King's College, London, "has some really As an example, Ellenbogen discussed how the Science great studies of looking at the modeling impact of strangers in designed learning environments."9 Museum of Minnesota duplicated a study called the "Six Americas"8 that looked at national views on climate change. The Six Americas study found that there is a wide range INFORMAL CHEMISTRY of knowledge and beliefs about climate change, ranging David Ucko provided some background on the National from enthusiastically supporting and accepting the science of climate change to disbelief and rejection.
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... Washington, D.C.: Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education. Available online at caise.insci.org/uploads/docs/2008_CAISE_Landscape_Study_ Report.pdf (accessed April 6, 2011)
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... The LSIE NSF funds Communicating Research to Public Audiences report is a synthesis of what has been done in research and awards through the Informal Science Education Program. evaluation across informal learning, drawn from many subThis program allows principal investigators to use part of disciplines.
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... base and continue support for informal education. Another NSF effort to fund informal learning is the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education, CAISE.15 Questions and Answers It is designed to serve the field overall and to help create a community of practitioners across those different dimensions Chemistry in Museums of informal learning discussed earlier in the landscape study.
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... raphy of the African-American chemist Percy Julian (Figure 2-5) , which aired on the PBS NOVA program 3 years ago.20 Opportunities for Chemistry in Informal Education He explained that "Julian's scientific career involved a lot of Ellenbogen asked Ucko to speak about the compelling areas of chemistry that might benefit from or be well suited 18The exhibit is called "Fuel Your Future." For more information, see the to informal science education.
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... Lyons applied what he learned from Forgotten Genius to his new video production titled The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements. This is a 2-hour special focusing on the human story behind the development of the Periodic Table (Figure 2-6)
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... "I'm sure we would find the same pattern there. In fact, Lyons noted that his production team received a critical there is even less chemistry on other networks than there is NSF planning grant to help this project last year and has on PBS." also received support from the Dreyfus Foundation, the Haas Similar results were found when he reviewed other popuTrusts, and the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
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... However it is clear from the Julian film that there are many articulate chemists. Lyons also suggested that many FIGURE 2-7 Media sources used by American (home broadband people are discouraged by their high school chemistry expe- Internet users)
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... Run by a former National excitement over the catalyst discovery, yet 9 months later, Cancer Institute science editor, it provides impartial coverage people were still watching. Lyons estimated that the video of health care issues.
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... short of an overhaul of chemistry education, which is a subject for another day, is to tap the one remaining conduit for Questions and Answers science learning, informal education." In the first year alone, the chemistry and media fund might Jeannette Brown thanked Steve Lyons for the Percy Julian support a mixture of chemical communications. Over time, film, which she noted "is the only film that shows Africanby supporting a wide array of informal science education American chemists." She mentioned that the ACS Committee initiatives, Lyons thinks the fund would do more to enhance on Minority Affairs and the Women Chemists Committee
From page 18...
... Instead of using would encourage folks to develop proposals for informal symbols, they used a simple ball and stick illustration to science education in chemistry." help people understand the chemicals. An explanation was Bill Carroll commented that one of the difficulties in provided for the basic steroid structure of physostigmine and chemistry is counterbalancing the negative images.


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