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Title New ground : pushing the boundaries of studying informal learning in science, mathematics, and technology / foreword by Jrène Rahm ; edited by Karen S. Sahin and R. Steven Turner
Published Rotterdam, The Netherlands : SensePublishers, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages)
Series Bold visions in educational research ; volume 46
Bold visions in educational research ; volume 46
Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; CRYSTAL Atlantique: Stories about Creating Possibilities, Releasing the Imagination, and Learning to Learn; REFERENCES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Part One: CRYSTAL Atlantique -- The Story; CRYSTAL ATLANTIQUE-THE STORY; WHO ARE WE AND HOW DID WE COME TO BE WORKING TOGETHER?; OUR COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES, ENCOUNTERS, AND COMMUNITY; Collective Activities; Encounters; Community; INTERROGATING OUR WORK: WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT INFORMAL LEARNING; PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF INFORMAL LEARNING; Accomplishments; REFERENCES; Part Two: Research Stories from CRYSTAL Atlantique
Section I: Voices Outside EducationINTRODUCTION; ENGAGEMENT: THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH-INTENSIVE EXPERIENCES; INTRODUCTION; THE GO GLOBAL: SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM; LITERATURE REVIEW; PARTICIPANT PROFILE; EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH DESIGN; IMPORTANCE OF AUTHENTIC RESEARCH EXPERIENCES; VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS; IMPACT ON THE MENTORS; DISCUSSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE; REFERENCES; AN EXPLORATION OF SUMMER SCIENCE CAMPS AS AN INFORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; INTRODUCTION; Informal Science Outreach Programs; How Children Learn Science; THE SUMMER SCIENCE CAMPS; METHODOLOGY; WHAT WE LEARNED
Children Liked Attending the Science CampsChildren Came to Learn; Children Learned Science; Children's Thinking about Science Changed; The Leaders Are Important Role Models; DISCUSSION; FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS; CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX A: STUDENT SURVEY (ON COMPUTER); APPENDIX B: PARENT SURVEY; APPENDIX C: TELEPHONE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS; APPENDIX D: PARENT SURVEY-RETURNING PARTICIPANT; APPENDIX E: INTERVIEW FOR RETURNING CHILD; REFERENCES; TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; INTRODUCTION; PROBLEMATIC; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING BY USING OCOWS; ASSESSMENT
WEB-BASED TOOLS USED FOR THE TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNINGOCOWS COMPONENTS; On the Server Side; The Data Access Objects; The Business Logic Objects; The Remote Procedures; On the Client Side; OCOWS INTERFACE; The Menu; The Table of Contents Section; The Comments Section; The Content Section; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTE; REFERENCES; Section II: Questions and Dilemmas Associated with Informal Learning Research; INTRODUCTION; COMMON SENSE AND NECESSITY IN (ETHNO) MATHEMATICS; CONTEXT; WHAT IS MATHEMATICS?; VALUES IN MI'KMAW PRACTICES; COMMON SENSE IN MI'KMAW PRACTICES
COMMON SENSE AND NECESSITY IN/AGAINST MATHEMATICSSTUDENT WORK IN THE TENSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; ASSESSING DIFFICULTY LEVEL IN MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM SOLVING IN INFORMAL ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS: Case of the CASMI Community; CONTEXT AND PROBLEM STATEMENT OF THE STUDY; THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; A FRAMEWORK FOR PROBLEM CHARACTERIZATION; APPLICATION OF THE FRAMEWORK: EXAMPLES OF CLASSIFICATION; PROBLEM CHARACTERISTICS AND DIFFICULTY LEVELS; DATA ANALYSIS; Problem Characterization and Ratio of Correct Solutions
Summary Between 2004 and 2009, university educators, practicing scientists, museum and science-centre personnel, historians, and K-12 teachers in Canada's eastern Atlantic provinces came together as a research community to investigate informal learning in science, technology, and mathematics. The interdisciplinary collaboration, known as CRYSTAL Atlantique, was sponsored by Canada's National Science and Engineering Research Council. In this volume, the CRYSTAL participants look back on their collective experience and describe research projects that pushed the boundaries of informal teaching and learning. Those projects include encounters between students and practicing scientists in university laboratories and field studies; summer camps for science engagement; after-school science clubs for teachers and students; innovative software for computer assisted learning; environmental problem-solving in a comparative, international context; online communities devoted to solving mathematical problems; and explorations of ethonomathematics among Canadian aboriginal peoples. The editors and contributors stress the need for research on informal learning to be informed continuously by a notion of science as culture, and they analyze the forms of resistance that studies of informal learning frequently encounter. Above all, they urge a more central place for informal science learning in the larger agenda of educational research today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 14, 2015)
Subject Non-formal education.
Science -- Study and teaching
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Technology -- Study and teaching.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching
Non-formal education
Science -- Study and teaching
Technology -- Study and teaching
Form Electronic book
Author Sahin, Karen S., editor
Turner, R. Steven (Roy Steven), 1944- editor
ISBN 9789463000222
9463000224