What is missing in order to support tomorrows science education

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Creating Research Links between Science at the
Nanoscale and Science Education
Or Leveraging the advantages that science at
the Nanoscale offers science education.
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Postulates

• The outcome of research is people, even more so
  
• than knowledge.
• What we teach and what students learn is
• determined by the tools at our disposal
• Scientific literacy is becoming a civil right

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• AAAS
• Atlas of science Literacy,
• Science for all Americans,
• Benchmarks of Science Literacy

• Common Themes presents general concepts, such as
  systems and models, that cut across science,
  mathematics, and technology.
• Habits of Mind sketches the attitudes, skills,
  and ways of thinking that are essential to
  science literacy.

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Science and education
Cognitive and Behavioral studies
Learning
Information Technology
Brain mechanisms
Content Advances
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Interdisciplinary Issues in Nanoscale
Research Joachim SCHUMMER Department of
Philosophy, University of South Carolina,
Department of Philosophy, University
Such a melting pot of various disciplines
promises to be a great opportunity for innovative
research through synergetic effects, provided
that researchers from different disciplines find
a common basis required for interdisciplinary
research. If that is missing, however,
disintegration is to be expected and researchers
will at best do their disciplinary research
business as usual, though under a new label.
Therefore, the understanding and mediating of
interdisciplinarity is a crucial factor in the
future success of nanoscale research. Yet,
although every report on nanoscale research
highlights the necessity of interdisciplinarity,
little effort at understanding interdisciplinarity
has been made. To the contrary, there is
currently a naive rush from badly understood
interdisciplinarity towards new visions of
super-interdisciplinarity to be centered on
nanotechnology (Roco Bainbridge 2002).
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If an image is worth a thousand words( Story
from Boris Vian, L'Automne à Pékin )
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•  Parallel Goals
• In nanoscience education
• Reinforcement of key concepts and fundamental
  principles that are taught in science, math and
  engineering curricula.
• In science education
• Introduction of nano-related concepts when
  teaching fundamental principles in science, math
  and engineering

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PHYSBE
McLeod J, PHYSBE...a physiological simulation
benchmark experiment, SIMULATION,
324-329, vol.7, no.6, 1966. McLeod J, PHYSBE...a
year later, SIMULATION, 37-45, vol.10, no.1,
1968.