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MONDAY, JUNE 5 – CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY
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TUESDAY, JUNE 6
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OPEN SESSION
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9:00 a.m.
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Public Welcome
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Jean Moon, Director, Board on Science Education, National Research Council
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Philip Bell & Bruce Lewenstein, Co-Chairs, Committee on Learning Science in Informal Environments
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9:20 a.m.
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Discussion of the Charge with the Sponsor
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David Ucko, Head, Informal Science Education, National Science Foundation
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• Sponsors presents (15 minutes) |
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• Committee and sponsor discussion, Q and A (30 minutes) |
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10:15 a.m.
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Where is the field now? Panel presentation
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George Hein, Professor Emeritus, Program Evaluation and Research Group (PERG), Lesley University & President, TERC
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“Learning Science in Informal Environments: The Need to be Both Cautious and Bold”
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Lynn D. Dierking, Associate Director, Institute for Learning Innovation & Professor, Free-Choice Science Education, Oregon State University
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“Where's the Field?: Conceptualizing & Investigating Lifelong, Life-Wide STEM Learning”
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11:00 a.m.
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Break
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11:15 a.m.
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Resume Presentations/Discussion
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Jon Miller, Professor and Director, Center for Biomedical Communication, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
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Sheila Grinnell, President Emerita, Arizona Science Center and Consultant, Strategic Visions for Cultural Institutions
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Discussion Questions:
• What is the range of theoretical perspectives, assumptions, and outcomes that characterize research on informal science?
• What are the most pressing questions for the field in the next decade? What are promising directions for future research?
• How have research and practice interacted in this field historically? What is the nature of the current research/practice relationship?
• What literatures inform informal learning of science? Are there relevant literatures that are under-utilized/under-appreciated? |
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12:30 p.m.
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Lunch
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1:00 p.m.
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Presentations on Previous Informal Science Learning Initiatives
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Kirsten Ellenbogen, Director, Evaluation & Research in Learning, Science Museum of Minnesota |
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Laura Martin, Executive Vice President for Experiences, Phoenix Zoo |
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“Informal Science Education: The role of educational TV”
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Discussion questions:
• What motivated these initiatives?
• What literatures and research perspectives were included/ excluded?
• What were the major conclusions and recommendations of these initiatives? How were these taken up in the field?
• What are the strategic “taking off” points from these efforts? |
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3:00 p.m.
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CLOSED SESSION
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3:15 – 5:30 p.m.
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Committee discussion
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WEDNSEDAY, JUNE 7 – CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY
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