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Science Education for the Millennial

• Dr. Fabian M. Dayrit

Department of Chemistry, Ateneo de Manila University Academician, National Academy of Science & Technology

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom”

• Aristotle

Outline

• 1. Technology and the Millennial
• 2. Science Education in K-12
• 3. STEM careers in a GLOCAL world
• 1. Technology and the Millennial

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Millennials grow up surrounded by technology

Technology

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We shape our tools, and thereafter

• ur tools shape us.
• Marshall McLuhan

Technology is always a two-edged

• sword. It will bring in many benefits,

but also many disasters.

• Alan Moore

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Technology ≠ Science

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Science curiosity discovery understanding

(credit: The 21st Century Scientist, Nature, 2015)

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Laboratory: Lat. laborare ≡ to labor

Outline

• 1. Technology and the Millennial
• 2. Science Education in K-12
• 3. STEM careers in a GLOCAL world
• 2. Science Education in K-12

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The story of a school that has produced giants in science

Fasori Gymnasium Budapest

János Harsányi Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Game Theory Eugene Wigner Nobel Prize in Physics, 1963 Quantum Mechanics John von Neumann Mathematics Father of Computer Science László Rátz was a legendary teacher of mathematics in the school, after whom a Medal and an Achievement Award was later named.

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"The future will be like schools are today."

• Albert Szent-Györgyi

Nobel laureate in Medicine (1937)

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“Educators

are calling for

• change. They argue that creative

thinking, problem solving, motivation, persistence and other ‘twenty-first-century skills’ … enhances students’ abilities to master and retain knowledge (and) help to curb the alarming rate at which students interested in STEM abandon the subjects.”

“Educators

are calling for

• change. They argue that creative

thinking, problem solving, motivation, persistence and

• ther ‘twenty-first-century skills’

… enhances students’ abilities to master and retain knowledge (and) help to curb the alarming rate at which students interested in STEM abandon the subjects.”

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Creative thinking Problem solving Motivation Persistence Master and retain knowledge Stay with science

Is the solution more science?

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Science and Music

Albert Einstein considered music to be central to his own life and discoveries: “The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition.... My new discovery is the result of musical perception”

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Alexander Borodin (Nov 12, 1833 – Feb 27, 1887) was a Russian chemist, doctor, and Romantic composer. As a chemist, he pioneered a very important chemical reaction in organic synthesis, called the Aldol Reaction. As a composer, he pioneered Russian style of classical music, rather than imitate Western European models..

Aldol reaction

Science and Music

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http://www.upworthy.com/heres-why-musicians-have-better-brains-and-its-pretty-incredible

Playing music strengthens the corpus callosum, the link between the two halves of the brain. Musicians simultaneously process memory and be creative at the same time.

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Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519), was an Italian inventor, scientist, mathematician, engineer, architect, anatomist, botanist, geologist, astronomer, cartographer, painter, sculptor, musician, writer, historian, and poet. He is widely considered the greatest painter of his time. “Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. ”

Science and the Visual Arts

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Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books. featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research on the reproduction of fungi spores generated interest from the scientific establishment. Potter was also a prize-winning breeder of Herdwick sheep and a prosperous farmer keenly interested in land preservation.

Science and the Visual Arts

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“STEAM and arts integration are crucial in K-12 education, engaging students in the STEM subjects and ensuring that creativity doesn’t fall by the wayside as we chase innovation (how could it?). But it’s also an important idea for research. Artists and designers reformulate the questions that can guide a project, rethinking or redesigning systems at their base.”

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Nature, Symmetry, and Art

Science Education for the Millennial (Dayrit)

Outline

• 1. Technology and the Millennial
• 2. Science Education in K-12
• 3. STEM careers in a GLOCAL world
• 3. STEM careers in a GLOCAL world

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National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education

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“We are at the beginning

• f a revolution that is

fundamentally changing the way we live,

work, and relate to one

• another. In its scale, scope

and complexity, what I consider to be the fourth industrial revolution is unlike anything humankind has experienced before.”

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“Technology is not an

exogenous force over which we have no control... The more we think about how to harness the technology revolution, the more we will examine ourselves and the underlying social models that these technologies embody and enable, and the more we will have an opportunity to shape the revolution in a manner that improves the state of the world.”

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(http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/devoutreach/article/372/why-science-important-innovation)

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"We need to revolutionize education to encourage creativity and need to teach our kids to play, take a chance and create. By not teaching our children liberal arts we will hinder their capacity to innovate.“ - Axelle Tessandier, The Next Web

http://www.thedailyriff.com/articles/steve-says-technology-liberal-arts-innovation-648.php

Technology, Innovation and the Liberal Arts

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K-12 Do’s and Dont’s

Do

• Develop a holistic

curriculum

• Use the Internet for

INFORMATION and the teacher for FORMATION

• Emphasize problem-solving
• Teach the value of hands-on

work with relevant activities

• INSPIRE: Include history of

science and biographies of famous scientists

Don’t

• Teach only science
• Teach only INFORMATION
• Focus on memorization and
• bjective questions (e.g.,

Periodic Table)

• Expect set answers
• Replace experimentation with

seatwork

• Present science as a fixed set
• f RULES which were

discovered by geniuses

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.”

• T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

The goal of Science Education