Unlearning Science Education: The Story of SC200
Speaker: Andrew Read, Professor, University Park
An understanding of science is critical to an informed understanding of everything that happens around us. Yet many students will receive degrees without enough baseline scientific experience to make informed evaluations of the "scientific” claims that bombard us daily. SC200 was created to inspire a passion for science in students who had given up on the field. By using tools such as Blogs at Penn State and Poll Everywhere, we have allowed the students to teach themselves the value of science in their lives in meaningful ways.