July 5, 2011 in COS Resource, COSIA Sessions
The COSIA Session Write Ups include references to many books and journal articles, from both classic and recent studies in the learning sciences. A comprehensive list of references for all COSIA sessions can be downloaded.
July 5, 2011 in COS Resource, COSIA Sessions
This Review & Feedback session serves two purposes. First, students have the chance to observe their peers’ near-final activity, and learn how to review and provide critical and substantive feedback to colleagues. Second, students learn about how they will be graded by the instructors for the final presentation and paper. Students revisit the major ideas from the course, as a means to identify the key elements of the assessment tool. Students are introduced to the assessment tool – an observation instrument, which students will then use to observe their peers present their activity to the public. Instructors of the course may also consider using this observation instrument to assess how students communicate their scientific knowledge to the public and thus apply their understanding of the key concepts in this course.
July 5, 2011 in COS Resource, COSIA Sessions
This session is one of four Apply and Refine sessions. It introduces and provides an overview of inquiry in informal environments. Participants conduct an investigation, then observe visitors and facilitators interacting as they engage in an inquiry on the museum floor. The second part of this session focuses on how educators can build upon learners’ diverse responses to questions to engage them in learning through discussions and offers practical discussion-leading strategies.
July 5, 2011 in COS Resource, COSIA Sessions
This session is one of four Apply and Refine sessions. In this session, students consider diversity in learning environments and how to address the needs of all learners. The focus is to build knowledge about the relationship between language, culture, and science in order to create more inclusive science education environments. Issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion are in the forefront of the national consciousness and have become an integral part of the planning and programming at most informal science education institutions. This session gets participants thinking about issues of inclusion by considering what kinds of differences exist between people and gaining a sense of other perspectives.
July 5, 2011 in COS Resource, COSIA Sessions
This session is one of four Apply and Refine sessions, which can be done in any order. In this session, students examine the use of objects in learning experiences in informal environments, and think about the role of the objects in conversations and interactions. Students explore how different types of objects that are commonly found in informal environments can be used to support learning. They are challenged to use the “Characteristics of Exemplar Activities and Facilitation” they have been developing in class, and then create and implement an activity or program to teach one idea using four types of objects. This activity provides them with a common experience to think about and compare the talking and doing that may occur with different types of objects.
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