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Millions of people around the world watch live streaming wildlife cams, but they aren’t just watching: they are asking questions, trading information, and witnessing events that may be undocumented in...
DATE: August 1st, 2017
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Identifying private gardens in the U.K. as key sites of environmental engagement, we look at how a longer-term online citizen science programme facilitated the development of new and personal attachments...
DATE: January 17th, 2019
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This is the opening talk of the session titled "Impacts of Citizen Science," delivered on day two of the Citizen Science Toolkit Conference at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in...
DATE: June 20th, 2007
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the commons: resources belonging to or affecting the whole of a community common: found frequently in many places or among many people in common: 1. in joint use; shared 2. of joint interest (Oxford) A convening of 72 practitioners, researchers and evaluators, and other stakeholders in Washington, DC from December 11 to 13, 2019, explored the ...
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DATE: January 31st, 2020
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Over the last decade there has been significant growth in the number of afterschool programs that offer science activities to youth. Measuring the quality and contributions of these programs to...
DATES: August 15th, 2018 - July 31st, 2020
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Approximately 8.4 million children in the United States participate annually in out-of-school time (OST) programs with a science component. These programs have been shown to have a wide range of...
DATES: September 1st, 2015 - August 31st, 2019
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Students find meaning and relevance in their learning when they connect lessons to real-world issues and possible career paths. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) Conservation Connect, a freely...
DATE: November 15th, 2016
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This paper contributes a theoretical framework informed by historical, philosophical and ethnographic studies of science practice to argue that data should be considered to be actively produced, rather than passively...
DATE: November 12th, 2019
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In this article, Sujit Tolat, Associate and Senior Designer at Gallagher and Associates, recounts her journey as an exhibit designer, traveling and working on projects throughout the world. Tolat describes...
DATE: July 1st, 2010
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Stanford University Library, in partnership with the University of Santa Cruz, will develop a publishable metadata scheme for digital games, including ontology and terminology, as well as a system and...
DATES: October 1st, 2013 - September 30th, 2016
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Media and communications technologies play a significant role in disaster management procedures in regards to the mobilization of resources in emergency situations. While the dissemination of warning messages relayed via...
DATE: December 21st, 2010
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This article explores the development of observation in scientific and everyday contexts. Fundamental to all scientific activity, expert observation is a complex practice that requires the coordination of disciplinary knowledge,...
DATE: May 1st, 2008
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In this article, Ilze Groves of Questacon, Australia's national interactive science and technology centre, discusses the museum's efforts in 1996 to evaluate a group of sixteen prototype hands-on exhibits. This...
DATE: September 1st, 1997
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The University Museum of the University of Colorado at Boulder will plan a 3,000 square foot exhibit, "From Grassland to Glacier: Planning for an Interactive Exhibit on Biodiversity," to replace...
DATES: May 1st, 1999 - August 31st, 2000
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This paper presents findings from a label study project at the Franklin Institute Science Museum, part of the Naive Knowledge Research Project, funded by NSF to identify "naive notions" about...
DATE: January 1st, 1992
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Museums are excellent locations for testing ubiquitous systems; the Exploratorium in San Francisco offers a unique and challenging environment for just such a system. An important design consideration is how...
DATE: April 1st, 2002
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Hannah Redler’s paper examines the 13 year history of Science Museum, London’s contemporary art programme and explores how changing cultural conditions and the changing function of museums are making the...
DATE: June 19th, 2009
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A significant number of mass media news stories on climate change quote scientific publications. However, the journalistic process of popularizing scientific research regarding climate change has been profoundly criticized for...
DATE: June 10th, 2011
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In this article, Lisa C. Roberts of the Chicago Park District discusses the "From Knowledge to Narrative: Educators and the Changing Museum" book published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in...
DATE: January 1st, 1997
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In the globalisation era, arts have provided food for thought on “how latitudes became forms”, to stress again that now, at global level, one should no longer define art as...
DATE: September 19th, 2008
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The authors of this article discuss three pedagogical approaches, learning community, community of practice and community learning, and analyse their significance for knowledge acquisition and construction in higher education. The...
DATE: September 1st, 2005
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Public understanding of science has been replaced by engagement and participation, and science events, like festivals and science days, have become significant actors by offering direct contacts between scientists, public...
DATE: December 19th, 2014
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Interactive museum exhibits have increasingly placed replicated and virtual objects alongside exhibited authentic objects. Yet little is known about how these three categories of objects impact learning. This study of...
DATE: July 1st, 2005
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The article presents information on the use of informational graphic novels to improve student motivation for reading instruction in U.S. education. The author looks at U.S. Common Core State Standards...
DATE: November 1st, 2013
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This paper explains how and why many American museums of science and nature moved away from the traditional content and methods of natural history in the period from 1930 to...
DATE: July 1st, 2008