Long-term Projects
Teachers Learned Experience
Most science teachers have learned science in a manner that is antithetical to real science. While important, content is just one aspect of science. However, textbooks are the main mechanism for student and teacher learning and their primary purpose is in delivering content. While important, the scarcity of space forces the sanitation of the process of how knowledge comes to be.
Teaching Teachers/Students
Our goal is to engage both students and teachers authentically, which is often messier, less structured, and yet more fulfilling. This idea should not be confused with discovery learning or the constructivist philosophy, but rather, giving agency to investigators while still grounding that work in critique!
Science Conferences
Science becomes becomes knowledge through the certification process of public scrutiny and verification. These social and material processes, respectively, check the work that has been done, offers mechanisms for moving forward, and generate new inquiries. Science conferences are the platforms where the goal is to inform, collaborate, and network all while appropriating celebrating hard work with an appropriately skeptical stance.