Science Needs

I've moved far along but I'm back to using this blog as a way to keep notes. I just read;


Science educators have become very good at teaching the ‘formalized knowledge structures’ (e.g, in chemistry, the organization of the periodic chart) as Clark et al state, and very good at assessing those, but what do we 1 do poorly? I want to concentrate on two areas: career interest and conceptual understanding. We interest far too few students (hence the narrowing  pipeline analogy) in scientific careers, and we produce adults with poor conceptual understanding of science (Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century,
2007). As a result, we live in a society of individuals with naïve understandings of science (Pew Research Center and AAAS, 2009).


Rethinking science learning, a needs assessment
by Diane Jass Ketelhut of Temple University, Response Paper, Dede Conference on Games STEM Education