"They can't just google the correct answer": personalising science learning in an open-plan secondary school
Prain, Vaughan, Waldrip, Bruce and Lovejoy, Valerie 2015, "They can't just google the correct answer": personalising science learning in an open-plan secondary school. In Prain, Vaughan, Cox, Peter, Deed, Craig, Edwards, Debra, Farrelly, Cathleen, Keeffe, Mary, Lovejoy, Valerie, Mow, Lucy, Sellings, Peter and Waldrip, Bruce (ed), Personalising learning in open-plan schools, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp.143-162.
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"They can't just google the correct answer": personalising science learning in an open-plan secondary school
Enhancing students’ interest in and learning from school science experiences has remained a challenge for decades in many countries (DeWitt, Osborne, Archer, Dillon, Willis, & Wong, 2013; Duit, 2007; Tytler, 2007). This challenge is variously attributed to: (a) too much didactic teaching that casts students as reluctant bystanders tasked with memorising expert claims, (Duit & Treagust, 1998; Osborne & Dillon, 2008; Lyons, 2006); (b), a disconnect between official science curricula and students’ everyday worlds and interests (Aikenhead, 1996); and (c) lack of teacher familiarity with current scientific agendas, discoveries and methods (Chubb, 2014). Proposed and enacted solutions include: changes to the content, purposes and physical settings for learning (Duschl, 2008; Sadler, 2004; Tytler, 2007); integration with other subjects (Freeman, Marginson, & Tytler, 2015); more links with practising scientists (Chubb, 2014); more use of virtual resources (Linn, Davis & Bell, 2013), and increased explicit focus on opportunities for students to use these and other resources as reasoning tools for learning in this subject (Lehrer & Schuable, 2006; Tytler, Prain, Hubber & Waldrip, 2013).
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9789463001915 9789463001922 9789463001939
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eng
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130212 Science, Technology and Engineering Curriculum and Pedagogy 130106 Secondary Education
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