Teachers as Editors, Editors as Teachers

Science
High
Access Link
http://www.parlorpress.com/wrab
Author/Presenter

Angela M. Kohnen

Lead Organization(s)
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Year
2012
Short Description

In this study, we examine how a professional science news editor and high school teachers respond to student writing in order to understand the values and priorities each bring to bear on student work. These questions guided our work:

• How do teachers respond to authentic genres in content-area classes?
• How does teacher response compare to the responses of a professional editor?

Resource(s)
Kohnen teachers as editors published.pdf

SmartGraphs Authoring Tool

Mathematics
Science
Middle
High

A demonstration of the SmartGraphs software, and features of the authoring system, is available here: Authoring Demo. Concord is also making the authoring system available to any NSF-funded project that wants to incorporate Web-based SmartGraphs activities into its work. Activities run directly in a browser, so there is nothing to download or install. See http://smartgraphs.org for details about SmartGraphs.

Access Link
http://smartgraphs-authoring.concord.org/?utm_source=concord.org&utm_medium=Lan…
Author/Presenter

Concord Consortium

Lead Organization(s)
Concord Consortium
Year
2013
Short Description

SmartGraphs is free, open source software that helps students understand graphs and concepts represented in graphs (e.g., slope, velocity, half-life, global warming).

Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education; Cape Town, South Africa

Event Date
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Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy

Science
High

“The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation called the Farm Bill. What does its current iteration mean for the safety of supermarket eggs? Understanding how the latest science affects real people—patients, consumers, voters, and taxpayers—is at the heart of science literacy.”
—From Chapter 1 of Front-Page Science

Access Link
http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/9781936137145
Author/Presenter

Wendy Saul

Angela Kohnen

Alan Newman

Laura Pearce

Year
2012
Short Description

Like citizen journalists, your students can get to the heart of science literacy—and challenging questions like these—with the “learn by doing” methodology in this innovative book. Front-Page Science uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community.

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