Resistance is Futile: The dynamics of the Science Collective

resistance is futile: the dynamics of the science collectiveScience Education:Towards Critical Literacy (K-12)Judy O’Connell cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) ﬂickr photo by Luminis Kanto: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/12609729@N07/4190433317/Saturday, September 8, 2012Science Teachers Association of New South Wales

resistance is futile

Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine resistance is futilehttp://www.extremetech.com/extreme/135207-harvard-creates-cyborg-ﬂesh-thats-half-man-half-machine

the martian wayAsimov Crater was named on 4 May 2009, by theInternational Astronomical Union. It has a diameterof about 84 kilometres .

curiosity rover

generations

from here...

cc licensed ( BY NC ) ﬂickr photo by Colony of Gamers: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/colonyofgamers/4354773708/ ....to here!

Games scholar Constance Steinkuehler describes how gamesare well designed for learning and to capture interests. http://vimeo.com/21897856 ....to here!

“creative learning”

Our Information Age began, for all intents and purposes, in Aprilof 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser made the World WideWeb available—for free—not just for use but for contribution andparticipation by anyone with access to the Internet.Its open architecture, and its lack of a “director” or “owner”madethe potential for worldwide co-creation of knowledge, art,science, literature, animation, and all the rest possible.

A New Culture of Learning ~ Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change: Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown The Internet has become a participatory medium, giving rise to an environment that is constantly being changed and reshaped by the participation itself, changing the flow of news, effecting tacit as well as explicit knowledge, and embedding a new culture of learning.cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) ﬂickr photo by jasonstaten: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/jasonstaten/3037250330/

More content, streams of data,topic structures, (theoretically)better quality – all of these intoonline environments require anequivalent shift in our onlinecapabilities.

Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, and augmented reality, are all part of the new digital frontiers leading the re-invention of learning.cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) ﬂickr photo by Curious Expeditions: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/curiousexpeditions/622806411/

http://youtu.be/CqxF2VdkyxwDiscover the world of Augmented Reality with the PhiladelphiaScience Festival and The Franklin Institute.

“science”

Understand and negotiate the knowledge world.Our students need to know how to juxtapose text,sound, media and social connections in real time. 19 cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) ﬂickr photo by ianus: h?p://ﬂickr.com/photos/ianus/696177/

cc licensed ( BY ) ﬂickr photo by Giuseppe Bognanni: h?p://ﬂickr.com/photos/79286287@N00/215951891/ They need to know how to find, filter, then mix and match what they see, hear and experience

Digital mistake:Confusing access toinformation withlearning!

When your formative years are spent working your fingersthrough apps and iPads, smartphones and YouTube, the digitalworld and its habits can bend and shape not just how youaccess information, but how you conceptualise it entirely. Google creates the illusion of accessibility 22

Being linear, Google obscures the interdependence of information.

New developments in search, such as Googleinstant (that shows results as you type) haveboth enhanced & hindered the informationseeking habits of students by responding quicklyto search terms, and so making keywordcustomization seem less relevant. cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) ﬂickr photo by Always Bë Cool: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/alwaysbecool/2871346522/

Search is fast without necessarily being intelligent.

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/searcheducation/

What else can we do? 27h?p://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/tjt195/501975860/

alsoGoogle Scholar Alerts

By showing our students how to connect a database information repository (such as EBSCO, Gale, or JStor) or a local library service with Google Scholar, we are helping students broaden the scope of their information seeking, while at the same time refining the quality of the information response.cc licensed ( BY ) ﬂickr photo by woodleywonderworks: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/wwworks/2786242106/

RSS topic and journal alerts

When a technology focus subverts students’ conversation and development of critical thinking skills (and their ability to evaluate and analyse the information at hand), the mental processes that change knowledge from information to concept are not learned.Bomar, S. (2010). A School-Wide Instructional Framework for Evaluating Sources. Knowledge Quest, 38(3), 72-75.

Put intelligence back into search Knowledge 2.0 http://bit.ly/knowledge2 cc licensed ( BY ) ﬂickr photo by tarotastic: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/tjt195/509241247/

Take the time to keep up-to-date with searchdevelopments in order toexcite students about thereal meaning of the world-wide-web.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/ Wolfram|Alpha’s knowledge base covers an immense range of areas

http://www.scirus.com/

http://www.search-cube.com/

http://www.instagrok.com/

http://www.kidrex.org/

Horizon Report 2012 A pp! theG et “K-12 must address the increased blending of formal and informal learning.” “Students can take advantage of learning material online, through games and programs they may have on systems at home, and through their extensive — and constantly http://www.nmc.org/ available — social networks” http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-K12.pdf

The natural limitations of search has resulted in expansion of choice in information curation. The traditional social bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon, diigo, pearltrees, Scoopit, and others enable users to save information. Products like pinterest allow for collection of visual artifacts, allowing users to organize them into infinite categories.But recent software has taken this even further, with apps likeLearnist, mentormob, and even InstaGrok providing morestructure to how information is not only discovered, but sequencedand applied. http://www.teachthought.com/featured/how-google-impacts-the-way-students-think/

cc""Steve"Wheeler,"University"of"Plymouth,"2010"Degree of Information Connectivity Web 3.0 Web x.0 Semantic Web Meta Web Web 1.0 Web 2.0 The Web Social Web Degree of Social Connectivity

collecting finding sharing remixinganytime anywhere fastCREATIVELY

Participation in social mediaremoves perceived distancewithout intruding into real space

[social] media x 4

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“The simultaneous engagement with multiple crowds (which is more or less impossible in the offline world) is a genuine challenge in the age of social media.cc licensed ( BY NC ) ﬂickr photo by Kapungo: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/kapungo/1438662400/

[learning] self Personal learning environment – relying on the people we connect with through social networks and collaborative tools e.g. Twitter, Yammer. Personal learning network – knowing where or to whom to connect and find professional content.

[learning] self Personal web tools – used for tracking our life and powering our information organisation e.g. photos to Facebook, pictures to Flickr, photos to Twitter.

[learning] self Cloud computing – utilising open access between sources and devices e.g. Edmodo, Evernote, Diigo. Mixed reality – adopting e-devices and augmented reality e.g. ebooks, QRcodes, Layar browser. Content curation – utilising web services to filter and disseminate resources, news, and knowledge prompts.

[information] self Zotero http://www.zotero.org/ Digging into digital research http:// heyjude.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/digging-into-research/ Using Zotero with students http://librariansarego.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/using- zotero-with-students.html

[information] self Evernote http://evernote.com/ Digging into digital research http:// heyjude.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/digging-into- research/ Evernote for students http://jennyluca.com/2011/06/26/explaining-evernote/

http://youtu.be/pNvEyUjrwJAconnected educator

Periodic Table of QR codes http://www.periodicvideos.com/

http://youtu.be/AM-Wg8IH2VEPeriodic Table of Videos has made a poster with QR codes linking toour videos of each element. For extra stuff like this, follow us onFacebook and Twitter.http://www.facebook.com/periodicvideoshttp://twitter.com/#!/periodicvideos

“creativity”

release a passion for learningcc licensed flickr photo by Stéfan: http://flickr.com/photos/st3f4n/3951143570/ Never risk being a teacher only suitable for a bygone era cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by woodleywonderworks: http://flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2397012858/

Creative Commons works to increase sharing,collaboration and innovation worldwide. share reuse remix cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) ﬂickr photo by will_i_be: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/guillaumeseguin/5294641318/

Use Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org.au/ What CC is Who is using CC How you can make use of CC The advantages of applying CC licences and usingmaterials distributed under CC licences cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo by opensourceway: http://flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/5537457437/

http://youtu.be/AeTlXtEOplA

From Canadahttp://www.gameforscience.com/

From Austalia http://my.plane.edu.au/

Makerspace or Fab Lab in your school Fabrication Labs (fab labs), Hackerspaces, and Tech Shops, share common goals of collaboration and making.cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) ﬂickr photo by Pete Prodoehl: http://ﬂickr.com/photos/raster/6128718951/

http://youtu.be/euZivv8ySyAThe MakerBot Replicator is a 3d printer that you can use in your home to create allkinds of amazing things! In this video Bre Pettis, one of the founders of MakerBotIndustries, explains how a the MakerBot works!Find out more at http://www.makerbot.com/Visit http://www.thingiverse.com/

Mustafa’s device is based on a scientific mix between quantum physics, space technology, chemical reactions and electrical sciences.http://thenextweb.com/africa/2012/05/18/19-year-old-girl-in-egypt-invents-a-spacecraft-propulsion-device/

The great challenge of a digital education is meeting the needs of studentswho have grown up in the digital era, and meeting the expectations ofteachers and parents who haven’t.

students learn best when learning connects to their present collective resistance is futile

refine your perspective expand your skills of interactionempower your students to be the scientists of the future that we need.

http://youtu.be/WoZ2BgPVtA0the science collective

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