Contemporary Education“Support and deliver internationally recognised research enhanced by public engagement and impact”
Ale Okada
Contemporary Education
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Responsible Research and Innovation for students, teachers, scientists and citizens
Contemporary Education
Research bids Impact at scale
Open Schools
Gamify
Responsible Research and Innovation for students, teachers, scientists and citizens
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EUROPE: Horizon2020 SwafS , ICT
750,000 students12,000 UK teachers30,000 across the worldPartners:
New inquiry based resourcesTopical Curriculum + teachers’ CPDfor Responsible Innovation
> 500K
The UK: ESRC, Lever Hulme, Welcome Trust
2014-2017
Open Schools Gamify
Funding
Bids
Impact
Projects
Knowledge
1. What is the range of 'users' and the corresponding impacts?
2. What are the further avenues to explore with regard to impact on teacher communities?
3. Is there any possible connection to FELS work?
• Topical resources relevant for students´ life and society
• Contemporary curriculum for responsible citizenship
• New enquiry skills for scientific innovation
• Integrated Pedagogical tools for innovative teaching
Equiping next generation for responsible innovation and public engagement
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Impact
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Impact
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Assessment
BRAZILIAN NATIONAL EXAMS
CASE STUDY
controversial questionsabout topical issues
The question about independent companies was actually a question about eliminating bias in the drug testing process, a central part of the scientific method.
Internationa
l GM decision in BRAZIL CONTROVERSIAL and RELEVANT socio – scientific issue
Country: BRAZIL
Period: 1 month (3 to 5 lessons)
Topic: GM decision
Participants: 1,473 learners 86 teachers 36 scientists and experts 4 research centers: Fortaleza, Salvador, Curitiba, Florianopolis more than 6,000 visitors in 8 states
Outcomes: 2 workshops, 4 videoclips, 9 games, 4 materials, 42 illustrations, 3 poster seminar 1 national exhibition, 28 knowledge maps, 1 sign language for deaf people
GM decision in BRAZIL Engagemen
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GM – decisionStudents with expert partners developed various products to express their informed-based
opinions
poster
news image Wall board
magazinegame
exhibition
Sign
language
Outputs
Evidence-based data : pre and post questionnaires photo/video/audio ( public & private) comments (VLE) before during and after exemplars of project outputs assessed by teachers
GM decision - Impact on students – RRI skills: communicate ideas
Devise questions
Interrogate
sourcesRisks,
consequences
Justify opinions
Parana: local seminar with posters Salvador: GM - AR game (Flaras): risks / (conversation lead by student and teachers) group discussion lead buy students & scientist
Evidence-based data : hangouts weSPOT data photo/video/audio ( most public ) post-questionnaire
GM decision - Impact on Teachers - pedagogical tools for RRI
Conversation
blended methods
Group discussion
with mobile data
Rural Town in Ceara Florianopolis: hands-on workshop GM using weSPOT mobile data
Evidence-based data : post questionnaire photo/video/audio ( public) exemplars of their outputs: TV programme, AR game, blog news, social media
GM decision - Impact on experts - Educators, Scientists & Media
Inclusion
diversity Anticipation
Adaptive changeOpenness
Responsiveness
Science Media: TV Broadcast, Science-in-the News, videoclips, interviews: science communicators & research leaders interacting with local community (schools and public)
SP, Salvador: computer scientist, biologist educator and students produced a AR game ( PT and EN) Parana, Florianopolis: multidisciplinary
academic team engaged with teachers to adapt GM activity and plan exhibition
‘Explain consequences'
UK example
City: Milton Keynes
Period: 1 month (3 to 5 lessons)
Topic: Electric cars, Solar Panels, Energy consumption
Participants: 30 students 5 teachers 8 researchers
Outcomes: 3 workshops, 4 videoclips, 3 projects, 52 photos, 3 posters 1 international conference, 10 knowledge maps,
Smart cities – The UK Engagemen
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ApplianceSolar panels
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Solar panels2
appliance3
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GM decision - Academic and Public Engagement -
Evidence-
based
impact
Brazilian PhD student, teacher,presenting at RRI conference in London
Secondary pupils present their projects at the International Conference on Technology Policy and Innovation -
Engaging science on GM foodIn Brazil to promote academic and public engagement
RRI
Science-in-Society Knowledge
ScientificSkills
Technology
Smart environment
IBL
co-inquiry
Open schoolsNew
research
projects
SCHOOLSstudentseducatorsparents
UNIVERSITIESSupervisorsPhD studentsin-service teachers
LABS or Companiesprofessionalsspecialistsresearchers
For RRI
Open schoolsNew
research
projects
GAMIFYNew
research
projects
New
research
projectsGAMIFY
• Large number of teachers using contemporary resources in 80 countries• Teachers from various areas: biology, chemistry, physics, maths, geography,• Diversity of age-group: KS3, GCSE, pre-service teachers, primary school • New partnerships: Associations, Scientists, Universities, …• Collaboration with renowned scholars on evidence-based research outputs
(Robert Mazano CPD, T. Gusky Assessment )
• Partnership with AQA through a common framework for KS3 curriculum based on big science ideas and inquiry skills for RRI
• Partnership with Research ED – festivals about projects outcomes• The UK is the largest user-group ( more than 7,000 teachers)• Online courses with more than 50% of completion and 33% provided positive
feedback• Evidence-based change on teachers’ practices, students’ achievements and
engagement
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