Science In-Between

Science In-Between

By Scott McDonald and Ollie DreonScienceTechnologyEducation
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Science In-Between episodes

  • Episode 187: Enthusiasm and Obfuscation

    In this episode, we discuss leading professional development to support ongoing changes in teachers' thinking.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Everyone on this Train is a Suspect
    Articles of Interest

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    45 min
  • Episode 186: Blinded Feedback

    This week we talk about peer review and how important it is for science and science education.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Good food delivery
    Abstract: The Art of Design

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    48 min
  • Episode 185: The Great Divide

    In this episode, we discuss the US Department of Education's 2024 National Educational Technology Plan. The plan can be accessed at: https://tech.ed.gov/netp/

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Kids of Rutherford County podcast
    Martyr by Kaveh Akbar

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    44 min
  • Episode 184: Don't Get Stuck in the Noun

    This week we are talking about practice (not the Allen Iverson version). We want to dig in a little deeper into why we care so much about practice and how it is different to other ways of characterizing science activity like inquiry, lab skills, or the scientific method.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Search Engine Podcast
    One Day on Netflix

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    37 min
  • Episode 183: We Do Not Like Them Anywhere

    In this episode, we discuss educational words, concepts and practices that we hate.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Anatomy of a Fall
    Erasure by Percival Everett

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    42 min
  • Episode 182: My Manatee Teacher

    This week we talk about an article about transparence and invisibility that Scott wrote, Ollie was a participant in the research underlying the article and neither of our manatee brains remembers it.

    McDonald, S. P. (2016). The Transparent and the Invisible in Professional Pedagogical Vision for Science Teaching. School Science & Mathematics, 116(2), 95–103. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssm.12156

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    The Last Repair Shop on Hulu
    James Acaster's Repertoire on Netflix

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    40 min
  • Episode 181: Talking about a Recognition

    In this episode, we discuss the article from the Journal of Research of Science Teaching (JRST) which is been cited the most over the last three years:

    Carlone, H. B., & Johnson, A. (2007). Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 44(8), 1187-1218.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Poor Things
    Magic Jigsaw Puzzles

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    43 min
  • Episode 180: A Bucket Full of Lists

    This week we talk about leadership, mostly in K-12 schools, but also a bit in higher education.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    American Fiction
    Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching by Jarvis R. Givens

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    41 min
  • Episode 179: Back in Our Prime

    In this episode, we discuss the role that AI tools should play in the development of beginning researchers. We introduce the following tools:

    Elicit

    Microsoft Copilot
    Claude
    LitMaps
    Connected papers
    Research Rabbit
    Consensus

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    The Holdovers
    All of Us Strangers

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    1 hr 6 min
  • Episode 178: Flexing Your Affordances

    This week we at least start out talking about learning spaces, both virtual and physical, but we wander a bit from there.

    Things that bring us joy this week:

    Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way by Roma Agrawal
    The Right Mistake by Walter Mosley

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

    55 min

About Science In-Between

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This is a conversation about how science teaching can move between and connect different worlds.

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