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Thinking about science education
Date posted: 7 October 2016
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Date posted: 21 September 2016
By Rose Hipkins
Read rest of post: Making progress in evidence-based reasoning: what part do contexts play?
Date posted: 16 September 2016
When I reflect on educational aims at the school level, I think of the key competencies in the curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007).
Read rest of post: Argumentation: another candidate for measuring progress?
Date posted: 8 September 2016
Thank you for coming back to our science blog. You get a tag-team handover this week - I am Rose Hipkins and I’m picking up from my colleague Ally Bull. My plan is to build on her thoughts and questions while turning the focus to an issue that I know is worrying a lot of teachers right now.
Read rest of post: What do we mean when we ask if students are "making progress" in science?
Date posted: 24 August 2016
This is the focus of A Nation of Curious Minds: He Whenua Hihiri i te Mahara – the national strategic plan for science in society. So to what extent does science learning at school support this goal? Before we can answer that we need to be clear about what supports the development of innovators.
Read rest of post: Building creativity, innovation and increased critical science literacy
Date posted: 12 August 2016
School science fairs get a bad rap. They are often criticised for not promoting real learning, being overly-competitive, advantaging students from already privileged backgrounds, putting extra stress on children, teachers and families, not representing science as it really is, and so on. Despite this though, some people do leave school with very positive memories of science fairs.
Read rest of post: Science fairs
Date posted: 2 August 2016
In the third of her series on the place of science in a future-focused curriculum, Ally Bull explores the idea of making school science personally relevant.
Read rest of post: Making school science personally relevant
Date posted: 19 July 2016