tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post3317243919255427385..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: Rethinking Science Fairs (7 Ideas)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-47092514457425423502011-06-21T09:58:36.908-04:002011-06-21T09:58:36.908-04:00I posted my reply on your blog.I posted my reply on your blog.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956056168256756705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-16093985855878755742011-06-20T14:52:45.047-04:002011-06-20T14:52:45.047-04:00I found your ideas here to be quite wrong-headed, ...I found your ideas here to be quite wrong-headed, but I wrote a separate blog post about it, rather than try to do a long comment:<br />http://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/rethinking-science-fairs-7-mostly-bad-ideas-from-john-spencer/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-71767746338020234062011-06-20T14:11:25.010-04:002011-06-20T14:11:25.010-04:00I understand your idea about the parent produced p...I understand your idea about the parent produced projects. In my small catholic school growing up I thought about the Science Fair as a competition between parents to see whose child would get the ribbon. When I became a teacher at the same school, I helped to turn it around and a lot of the projects became family projects where the whole family participated in the projects. The parents seemed to enjoy the process more and did not seemed overwhelmed trying to help their child. I am not sure that the students could have used technology as a way to show the project. Maybe they could have videotaped the experiment if possible and shared them online.Mrs. Wiltenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08378592305968494192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-74917418479934581672011-06-19T20:17:22.214-04:002011-06-19T20:17:22.214-04:00I've seen it only through the lens of my exper...I've seen it only through the lens of my experience, which is North American. Each time, it's been a mess of random poster boards with some pretty shoddy science.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956056168256756705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-57583159896490473412011-06-19T00:58:05.303-04:002011-06-19T00:58:05.303-04:00I think there's a lot of room for your way of ...I think there's a lot of room for your way of looking at this - but not necessarily at Science Fairs where Natural Sciences are celebrated as a way of viewing the world.<br />As an IB teacher, I'd say we try and do this at the MYP (middle school) level and in fact, for grade 11 and 12 as part of the TOK (theory of Knowledge) subject - that's an epistemology course. Are you speaking as a North American teacher and does this issue reflect the current way of doing things there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-4073908557448024062011-06-15T12:18:46.763-04:002011-06-15T12:18:46.763-04:00The good thing about your information is that it i...The good thing about your information is that it is explicit enough for students to grasp. Thanks for your efforts in spreading academic knowledge.computer repair sacramentohttp://www.acomputerrepairsacramento.com/noreply@blogger.com