http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/ NSDL reaches out to individuals and organizations by exhibiting, attending and presenting at national and international STEM meetings and conferences. Read current first-hand reports about NSDL-on-the-road including photographs! Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-7278 Samantha Jackson Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:33:10 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-7278 God is the foundation of evil. God is the foundation of evil.

]]> http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-297 Observation Tower » Blog Archive » Science on TV: Impure But Cool Thu, 24 May 2007 02:44:42 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-297 [...] Some digital education providers have already jumped on the bandwagon.   An archived Expert Voices blog called Boneyard Science: Investigating Forensics has lots of interesting links, and a new site called Eforensics is being developed by the Eskeletons team at the University of Texas. The forensics theme was everywhere at the National Science Teachers Association meeting this year, and the teachers we spoke with said they were packaging chemistry and physics lessons as crime investigations because their students had gotten all jazzed up by “CSI.”  So what’s the problem? [...] […] Some digital education providers have already jumped on the bandwagon.   An archived Expert Voices blog called Boneyard Science: Investigating Forensics has lots of interesting links, and a new site called Eforensics is being developed by the Eskeletons team at the University of Texas. The forensics theme was everywhere at the National Science Teachers Association meeting this year, and the teachers we spoke with said they were packaging chemistry and physics lessons as crime investigations because their students had gotten all jazzed up by “CSI.”  So what’s the problem? […]

]]> http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-209 Science on TV » Blog Archive » Cheerleaders For Science Tue, 01 May 2007 01:01:25 +0000 http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/03/29/snippets-from-day-one-presentations/#comment-209 [...] I have been thinking about science on television when a colleague remarked that the big theme at this year’s meeting of the National Science Teachers Association was forensics.  The exhibit hall was all about packaging science lessons into crime scenes, she said, and the teachers she spoke with explained that their students were coming into class full of questions after watching shows like “CSI.”  This is easy to explain.  A recent article in Popular Science estimated that the big four networks are running 15 successful prime-time dramas this season in which medicine, science, or technology play a defining role.  During the entire decade of the 1990s, there were only ten science-based dramas. [...] […] I have been thinking about science on television when a colleague remarked that the big theme at this year’s meeting of the National Science Teachers Association was forensics.  The exhibit hall was all about packaging science lessons into crime scenes, she said, and the teachers she spoke with explained that their students were coming into class full of questions after watching shows like “CSI.”  This is easy to explain.  A recent article in Popular Science estimated that the big four networks are running 15 successful prime-time dramas this season in which medicine, science, or technology play a defining role.  During the entire decade of the 1990s, there were only ten science-based dramas. […]

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