Science In-Between

By Scott McDonald and Ollie DreonScience Technology Education

Science In-Between episodes

July 13, 2022 Episode 97: Is the Future Online?
In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss recent experiences they've had that communicated that the future of K-12 education through online delivery. We discuss whether this is a realistic and what some of the hurdles schools and families will need to navigate to make that happen. In the episode, we briefly discuss the following:
Adam Grant's Work Live podcast
Modern Classrooms Project
Things that bring us joy this week:
Elie Mystal's book - Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
Top Gun: Maverick
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
45 min
July 06, 2022 Episode 96: Not One of My Favorite Numbers
This week we talk about culturally relevant science teaching and what that means in terms of connecting to local community issues. We talk about the nature of being responsive as a science teacher and having learning opportunities be connected to local community issues is not a requirement for doing culturally relevant teaching. How do you think about creating curiousity and relevance by building on students' thinking and reasoning when they draw on their own experience and culture.
Things that bring us joy this week:
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Under the Banner of Heaven on Hulu
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
45 min
June 29, 2022 Episode 95: Why Would Anyone Become a Science Teacher?
In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the reasons that prospective science teachers should enter the profession.
Things that bring us joy this week:
Thor: God of Thunder - God Butcher series
Sierra Six: A Gray Man Novel by Mark Greaney
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
43 min
June 23, 2022 Episode 94: False Sense of Performance
This week we talk about standards, standardizing, and what makes sense to makes sense to standardize and why. Having consistency can help support equity across classes, schools, states, and even the country, but rigid curriculum are not responsive to students. How can we think about having standards (i.e. goals for what all students should know/be able to do), without having solutions that are scripted, decontextualized and disconnected from the local context and community where students live?
Things that bring us joy this week:
Ronin by Frank Miller
Middlewest by Skottie Young
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
56 min
June 15, 2022 Episode 93: Filiopietism
In this episode, Scott and Ollie talk about the shifts that school leaders need to make to better support science teachers adopting Next Generation Science Standards. In the discussion, we introduce the NGSS-aligned Danielson Framework and discuss some of the markers for administrators to look for.
NGSS-aligned Danielson Framework
[NGSS: An Overview for Principals](extgenscience.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/NGSS Overview for Principals_0.pdf)
What school building administrators should know about the new vision for K-12 science education
Things that bring us joy this week:
This American Life podcast
Nice Try podcast
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
44 min
June 08, 2022 Episode 92: Doctor Cranky Pants
Gallager
Carrot Top
5E Model (Bybee, R. W., Taylor, J. A., Gardner, A., Van Scotter, P., Powell, J. C., Westbrook, A., & Landes, N. (2006). The BSCS 5E instructional model: Origins and effectiveness. Colorado Springs, Co: BSCS, 5, 88-98.)
The Actual Professor Cranky Pants - Bill Sandoval
Things that bring us joy this week:
Doom Patrol on HBO Max
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
53 min
June 01, 2022 Episode 91: A Preacher, A Politician and A Prosecutor Walk into a Bar...
In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss the dispositional stance that teachers and students must adopt to be successful in classes built on student exploration of ideas and explanations. We draw on Adam Grant's book Think Again as well as recent episode of Against the Rules.
Things that bring us joy this week:
Joining a Community Band
The Punisher on Disney+
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
47 min
May 25, 2022 Episode 90: How & Why and Sometimes What
Epistemic Agency
Things that bring us joy this week:
Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness
Limonchello - Unfortunately you can't have Ollie's artisanal limonchello, but still, you can get some.
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
41 min
May 18, 2022 Episode 89: You Can't Open the Box
In this episode, Scott and Ollie discuss uncertainty in science and ways we can teach it in the science classroom. During the discussion, we refer to a recent article which examines trustworthiness and uncertainity in science.
Covitt, B.A., Anderson, C.W. Untangling Trustworthiness and Uncertainty in Science. Sci & Educ (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-022-00322-6
Things that bring us joy this week:
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Moon Knight on Disney+
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
47 min
May 12, 2022 Episode 88: The Model is NOT the Thing
Continuing with themes of the show, Ollie and Scott talk about models in their many forms in science and their relationship to the world and scientific phenomena. We also talk about the difference between students' models/explanations that they create and their relationship to cannonical science models/explanations.
Atomic Models
Things that bring us joy this week:
Julia
Peacemaker on HBO Max
Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind
42 min