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RE: school collaboration projects

2012-02-14T12:48:04Z

Cool!

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-14T12:47:17Z

Oh thanks Albert

It's really useful.
I found this definition in the ppt and I like very much the word passion. I think it is the most important word in the field of education and teaching

CoP definition
“Groups… who share a concern, or a passion about a topic…who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting on an ongoing basis (Wenger et al, 2002 )

RE: women on the top

2012-02-14T11:56:28Z

I think they are also not well represented in Top positions in STEM careers.
It would be interesting have opinion from women scientists and collect info about students.
Sometimes teacher are in contact with students also after the diploma and they follow their life and their career. It would be interesting understand what happen when they go from high school to university and then work life

RE: science and technology

2012-02-09T09:33:36Z

Albert Simago:

As Valeria comments, the topic of girls and science is quite interesting. One reference that I use a lot as a starting point is this one:

Gender differences in student attitudes toward science: A meta‐analysis of the literature from 1970 to 1991, by M Weinburgh - Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1995 - Wile. It finds (not unexpectedly) that boys have more positive attitudes toward science than
girls. Many other studies have found that, and it is our task as Science teachers to try to change that fact.

Thanks Albert!
Science teachers as well media and parents are role models for students. We started a discussion in the same category "women in science", in "role model" thread.
By the way, done correctly, learning by teaching method is very efficient. Do you think it is an efficient method to make girls more motivated, self-confident and free from stereotyped thinking?

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-02-08T10:00:15Z

Wow! That's very interesting! I will have a look. Thanks

RE: Assessment

2012-02-08T09:50:37Z

Hi Elisabeth

You also find Good Practices in Spice Moodle
http://spice.eun.org/web/spice/moodle.scientix.eu

RE: Am I the only one that has to go through a lengthy process?

2012-02-07T13:06:19Z

Peter Zwaveg:

Hey! I probably do it wrong, but it takes me too many clicks to enter this Community and be able to participate.
Could someone specify how to do it, step by step, and giving the correspongding links?

Thank you!

Hi Peter
If you use spice website is much more easy

http://spice.eun.org/web/spice/spice-communities
Use this link you need to click just one time to reach the community

Enjoy!

women on the top

2012-02-03T11:01:39Z

Hello

I had a look to the interesting website that Andreu sent some weeks ago (http://www.cec-wys.org/html/). Thanks Adnreu.

And I found this question that I would like to post here and ask what do you think about it:

Why are women represented in higher education in large numbers, but are not quite making it to the top?

RE: science and technology

2012-02-03T10:48:31Z

Albert Gras-Martí:

valeria manna:

http://www.the-twist-project.eu/en/article/

Here is an interesting project about women in science. Do you know another interesting project about that?

Hello everybody! In my University we have organised online courses to read basic literature and discuss the problem of women scientists recognition, and the general issue of women studying science subjects. If anyone is interested in more details about the contents of this course please let me know.

Hi Albert
welcome to CoP!
It sounds great! Do you have any link we can have a look?
It would be nice to read some papers and discuss about last results and data related to the participation of girls in science subjects.

Valeria

RE: Erratum list

2012-02-02T10:55:55Z

Andreu Català:

I just joined the Community and found an erratum here:

In page
http://spice.eun.org/web/spice
It reads:
Take part to interesting discussions about innovative education practices, partecipate to CoP!

should say: participate

I dont know if here is the place to report it...

Thanks Andreu

RE: Ingredientes for good practices

2012-02-02T10:46:29Z

Albert Simago:

As you said in the last two entries

"So you mean that is always important to adapt them to you class and the level of your students.
I think GPs have to be open, sharing your experience and writing down problems and tricks"

I should also add that all implementations by another colleague should be documented as well, as much as possible, and in the spirit of the Creative Commons License.
It would be useful that the documentation included grades, sample student data, etc., to orient better future teachers who wish to use it.

Don't you think?

Hi Albert

Yes I think a good GPs has to include comments and problems that teachers had to implement in their class the activities.
It is also interested report most commons questions students do to improve the activity.

In Spice project we collected GPs with all success stories of teachers (http://spice.eun.org/web/spice/GPs-info)

Valeria

RE: school collaboration projects

2012-02-02T10:20:55Z

Hi

scientix collects a lot information. http://www.scientix.eu/

You can search in news and events and also subscribe to teacher newsletters of EUN and scientix newsletter to be always informed about new call and projects.

Valeria

RE: Assessement of skils

2012-02-02T10:05:35Z

Hello

welcome to everybody in Spice CoP and thanks for your interest in Assessement thread.

It would be interesting to have more information about assessment research projects. Albert could you give us news about your plans for that topic ? Would be great!

Andreu, Peter and Dora please continue also your discussions here; All of you caught the idea of this Communities

Valeria

RE: Assessment

2012-02-02T09:20:47Z

Hello

Here is a paper about how graphing calculators alter testing and other forms of assessment:

http://www-users.math.umd.edu/~dac/650old/tosipaper.html

Valeria

RE: Communities of Practice

2012-01-27T15:16:18Z

Hi Albert

thanks a lot for your link. I think Spanish colleagues will be interested in reading it.

RE: informal science

2012-01-17T09:01:44Z

Hi Nora and Peter,
Welcome!

Definitively, science events, fairs and activities, give a strong contribute to involve students and generic public in science.

I found this interesting paper about informal science education.

RE: Assessement of skils

2011-12-09T09:50:22Z

Hi Carlos

I found this interesting paper about formative assessment in Science Education.

The paper describe the formative assessment done in some New Zeland classrooms and explore the practice of some science teachers.
It was published in 2000, in ten years we probably have had some updating about that But I think the paper could be a good start point to discuss on assessment and inquire about it

RE: Letter to Municipality

2011-11-12T16:13:53Z

Carlos Cachado:

With the GP Energy Consumption - what can we do? students have to write a document to sensitize the educational community to reduce the energy consumption, both at school and home.

We look to that activity as a Collaboration with informal education since students out of school environment will be in touch with information that could be relevant to their learning process.

This is a great idea! Do you think to plan some hands-on activities during the presentation of the document?

informal science

2011-11-12T16:09:35Z

Are informal activities significant as well as planning lessons?
Here is a link about informal education

http://informalscience.org

RE: Ingredientes for good practices

2011-11-12T15:47:49Z

Daniel Aguirre:

Eva says: I think each teacher should be able to work with all materials, he, she shoud be able to change it according the pupils level. I think there is not any maetrial which is suitable for everybody-just take it and teach.

So you mean that is always important to adapt them to you class and the level of your students