Science Education & Policy

Scientific Literacy Applied To Everyday Life – You Can Do It Too!

Please indulge me a charming aside from A.A. Milne in order to set the stage for my essay…. (don’t worry, it’s charming) The House at Pooh Corner (pg 93-94) In Which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins In ...

Article - Mark Berman - Jun 15 2010 - 9:56pm

What is metahypothesis?

To give a link in another topic, I shortly cover the meaning of not so common, but very important term- metahypothesis. Metahypothesis is formed by a number of other hypothesis- when you take some hypotheses and put them together, you get metahypothesis. L ...

Blog Post - Helium Väli - Jun 17 2010 - 8:50pm

Real or Virtual?

A physics professor was telling me yesterday that her daughter was having trouble understanding real and virtual images formed by lenses.  That was until she showed her a real image being formed on a sheet of paper by a (spectacle?) lens.[1]  The curriculu ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 18 2010 - 12:48pm

Print Your Own Universe

Print Your Own Universe There is a great educational resource available on the web: card models. I remember first 1 making such models as a small child.  I can say from memory that folding paper and card in three dimensions is a great way to get an intuit ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 21 2010 - 4:21am

Home Computers Have Led To Lower Test Scores In Younger Children- Study

Politicians and education activists believe computer access is creating a generation of "have not" students that will be unable to compete in a digital world.  Their very expensive solution is to guarantee subsidize home computers and even high-s ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2010 - 7:43pm

Two Ideas For Publishers

I have just finished four slides (well, five, if you count the cover) which I will show at ESOF 2010, the "EuroScience Open Forum" which is starting in Torino tomorrow. At ESOF, Sense About Science has organized two interesting sessions. One of t ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 25 2011 - 5:17pm

Discovery of the quaternion waltz

When some members of a discussion group asked me to write a small course on Hilbert spaces, I decided to define that Hilbert space over the quaternions. Futher I wanted to indicate the relation between this Hilbert space and quantum logic on the one hand ...

Blog Post - Hans van Leunen - Jul 5 2010 - 10:38am

Why Don't Science Writers Write About Science Education?

I  don't get why science writers don't cover science education. They cover whatever cool science is the flavor of the moment, they cover disasters and the science behind them, they cover scientists but they don't cover the kids who are going ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Jul 22 2010 - 11:24am

What Does An Engineer Do?

I have been working with scientists and engineers on explaining their research and other work to the general public for almost a decade. I've explained the science of many things and how they connect to the real lives of real people. But it occurred t ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Jul 31 2010 - 3:15pm

Open Science Summit 2010 This Weekend

This weekend marks the launch of the inaugural   Open Science Summit   conference in Berkeley, CA. ...

Blog Post - Matthew T. Dearing - Jul 31 2010 - 6:22pm