In this episode, we discuss a chapter from the book Exploring New Horizons: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education (Searson et al, 2024). The chapter references Neil Postman's 1998 speech titled Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change.

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This week we talk about how preparing teachers to teach science is challenged by a lack of coherence and curriculum.

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

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

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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/

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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

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