Many, many years ago I developed a book while being a writer for the Individualized Science Instructional System (ISIS) which was entitled Touch the Earth. It was a geology mini-course, part of a large collection of earth, life, and physical science mini-courses for...
Informal learning as a paradigm for classroom learning suggests that learning is holistic, and is steeped in inclusiveness and connectedness. As I suggested yesterday, John Dewey wrote about the importance of an "experiential education" more than 100 years ago, and...
I am watching the countdown of STS 119, the October 15, 2009 launch of the Space Shuttle, Discovery. I started this post at T minus 6 minutes and counting, and continued watching until Discovery reached orbit. It's always amazing whenever we launch the Space Shuttle....
I could have titled this "Is science teaching political?: A Humanistic Question." In an article (Scientific literacy: A Freirean perspective as a radical view of humanistic science education) recently published in Science Education, Wildson L.P. dos Santos, of the...
NASA's latest spacecraft, Kepler lifted off into a solar orbit but in a region close to earth. It's mission over the next 3 1/2 years is look for Earth-like planets by using a photometer that is very sensitive to variation in the light intensity emitted from stars....
Australian astronomers noticed a surprise blip on an image taken from Siding Spring Observatory, and announced that an asteroid, designated 2009 DD45 would pass about 40,000 miles from Earth on March 2. It did, and it was reported on most news services. And it...
