Science Discrepant Events and Critical Thinking: Using Surprising Phenomena to Focus Students’ Attention in Science | - http://www.suite101.com/content...
Sample discrepant events are used to cause contradictions in students' prior knowledge and experiences in support of their better understanding of science concepts.
- David Wetzel
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The Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus) is one of the many non-native invasive species plaguing Florida. These reptiles are a serious threat to native animal species in all state habitats.
- David Wetzel
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"The Open Citations Project is global in scope, designed to change the face of scientific publishing. It aims to make bibliographic citation links as easy to use as Web links. Its goals are three-fold: To establish OpenCitations.net, a public RDF triplestore for biomedical literature citations. (Note: In this context, a bibliographic citation is a reference within a particular citing work to another publication termed the cited work. This use of the word ‘citation’ should be clearly distinguished from the common related use of this word to indicate the cited work itself. Within this application, ‘cite’ and ‘citation’ denote the performative act of citation itself, not the target document of that citation.) To harvest the reference lists from many current and recent open access journal articles, and to convert these datasets into RDF, starting with those in UK Pubmed Central, those published by the Public Library of Science and Biomed Central, those from other publishers willing for...
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- Mike Chelen
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Solving science problems and mysteries provided students with real world applications of the inquiry based learning. They learn to investigate the same way as scientists.
- David Wetzel
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As the next step in our ever continuing mission to provide all the software needed to push online science forward in one place, we are proud to announce the launch of the Science 3.0 Etherpad! The etherpad can be found here: http://www.science3point0.com/etherpa... - The pad is open to members and non members alike. The reason we ask users to...
An inquiry-based analysis is the basis for an investigation into the mysterious death of an electric car, as students role play and research to find the guilty party.
- David Wetzel
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[Special bookmark] Open Access and Open Data links only http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010... And get ready: the very first Science 3.0 Blogging contest is on Open Access!
In a Letter to Science, Donald Siegel and Philippe Baveye discuss what they call « the paper glut » we face and address suggestions to improve the reviewing system. http://hatewasabi.wordpress.com/2010...
New report on access to information and open government data (Access Info Europe and the Open Knowledge Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Society Institute Information Program) - http://blog.okfn.org/2010...