citizen social scienceInspired by the longer established citizen science, citizen social science projects in the classroom can have positive effects on student engagement and learning outcomes. This article reports on the incorporation of a citizen social science assessment task requiring students to ...
This April isCitizen Science Month, during which SciStarter willcoordinate an effortto have everyday citizens, both adults and children, performOne Million Acts of Scienceacross many research fields. Acts of Science in the Classroom Though many of the projects are science-focused, SciStarter includes...
Although it's fun, citizen science is actually serious stuff. People around the world help generate new knowledge or understanding. All of these projects have a genuine science outcome, such as answering a research question, or informing conservation action, management decisions or environmental policy...
Like theDesign Your Concept, Anything Goes, andCitizen Sciencerounds of The Hackaday Prize, the top twenty projects will each win $1000, and move on to the Hackaday Prize finals for a chance to win $150,000 and a residency at theSupplyframe DesignLabin Pasadena. ...
Citizen Science Designer and Facilitator for the GROW Observatory. Also busy writing up my PhD thesis on how soil biodiversity responds to land-use change. You can follow me on Twitter @SoilScholar. Mel Woods Mel is Professor in Creative Intelligence at University of Dundee. Her research focuses...
Citizen science can be a powerful approach to foster the successful implementation of technological innovations in health, care or well-being. Involving experience experts as co-researchers or co-designers of technological innovations facilitates mutual learning, community building, and empowerment. By util...
Citizen science Tap water Undergraduate STEM education Test strips 1. Introduction The emergence and global spread of COVID-19 had and will have a lasting impact on human life. One of the first consequences of the spread of COVID-19 was an abrupt change in education, especially at the univer...
We will therefore discuss our assessment of how central the experience of scientist-teacher co-creation is to the success of citizen science intended for implementation in the classroom.Julie Urban
Everyone can learn from them. And as we do so together, we can build that coveted community of inquiry and genuine curiosity within our classroom. So, just as we always need to update our syllabi, we might also need to update the way we talk about it–but then let’s keep...
Living History—Challenging Citizen Science and Youth Activism Through Historical Re-enactingIn sixth grade, I told my teacher, Mr. Miller, that he was wrong. As a "good" student, this was unusual behavior for me. I normally remained very quiet and compliant in the classroom, following ...