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ACTIVITY 5.2.2 Young People and Science

European Commission Science in Society program

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Project CoReflect (Title: Digital support for Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates) is a three year (2008-2011) research program, funded by the European Commission, under the FP7 Science in Society program.  Bringing together eight diverse and multi-disciplinary teams from seven European states, the project members seek to promote evidence-based practice in science teaching and learning, by collaborating to iteratively design, enact, critique, and research project- and problem-based innovative inquiry learning environments.  These environments, which will be hosted on the STOCHASMOS web-based teaching and learning platform, will couple data-rich scientific rigor with the flexibility and easy modifiability that is needed for widespread adoption and use.

Read an overview of the CoReflect project, its goals and objectives.

Download a publishable summary of the first 18 months of the CoReflect project!

Download a CoReflect leaflet!

 

Project News

  • Cally Oldershaw of ASE and Iolie Nicolaidou of CUT will represent CoReflect at the 9th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL2010), which will take place in Porto in Portugal on November 4-5th 2010, with the paper: "Participatory Design to Support Students’ Web-based Inquiry of Complex, Socio-scientific Problems".
  • Vasilis Kolias of UTh will represent CoReflect at the 7th Pan-Hellenic Conference with International Participation "ICT in Education" (HCICTE 2010), which will take place on September 23-26 2010 with the paper: "Web-based learning environments supporting socio-scientific decision making".
  • Andreas Redfords of HKr will represent CoReflect at the GIREP-ICPE-MPTL conference 2010 "Teaching and Learning Physics today: Challenges? Benefits?", which will take place on Aug.22-27 2010, with the paper: "Web-based learning environments supporting socio-scientific decision making".
  •  CoReflect participated at the  9th International conference on Computer Based Learning in Science, CBLIS 2010 ("Modeling and Simulation in Inquiry-Oriented Learning Environments"), on 4-7 July in Warsaw, Poland, with the paper: "How the design of a web-based inquiry learning environment stimulated student discussions about evidence credibility" (CUT).
  • CoReflect participated at the  9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) "Learning in the Disciplines" on June 29 - July 2 2010, in Chicago, USA with the paper: “Scaffolding students in evaluating the credibility of evidence using a reflective web-based inquiry environment in Biotechnology” (by CUT) and with the symposium: “The Educative and Scalable Functions of Authoring Tools to Support Inquiry-based Science Learning” (by BGU, CUT, HKr and LUH).
  • Costas Constantinou from UCY gave a talk on the topic: "Enhancing the authenticity of student experience with web based scaffolds for scientific inquiry: examples from the validation of learning environments on the STOCHASMOS platform" at the Innovative Education Forum 2010, a conference organized by Microsoft Cyprus, on June 24th 2010 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
  • Cally Oldershaw from the ASE visited Cyprus and gave four presentations related to the CoReflect learning environments that are currently available. Presentations were given to primary and secondary school teachers and also to a group of researchers and advanced graduate students. Presentations took place in Nicosia on May13th 2010 and in Limassol on May 17th 2010. 
  • Freda Terzian, from the CUT LWG won a Distinction award at the Pedagogical Institute Contest for effective use of ICT in high schools across Cyprus.
  • The third Steering Board meeting took place in Hannover, Germany on Feb.1-3 in 2010. The event was hosted by the Leibniz University of Hannover.
  • CoReflect was represented at the ASE Annual Conference 2010: “Inspirational Science, The best in science teaching and learning” (University of Nottingham, 6-9 January 2010) .CoReflect organized two events: a) a hands-on workshop on Wednesday, January 6, 2010 (International Day) titled: "The CoReflect Approach: Using Digital Tools To Support Inquiry, Collaboration, and Reflection on Socio-Scientific Debates" and b) a talk on  Thursday, January 7, 2010, titled: "The Coreflect Approach: The Examples of The GMOs and Fog Web-Based Reflective Inquiry Environments".
  • CoReflect was represented at the 10th EMBO/EMBL Science & Society Conference, with Frederiki Terzian (member of the CUT LWG). The conference took place on November 6th-7th 2009 in Heidelberg, Germany. See photos of the event!
  •  The second CoReflect Knowledge Sharing Workshop (KSWII) took place in Volos, Greece between June 30th and July 2nd 2009.  The event was hosted by the University of Thessaly.  Read more about KSWII by visiting the link above.
  • CoReflect was represented at the PARSEL 2009 international conference in Berlin (March 1-4, 2009).
  • The second Steering Board Meeting took place in Kristianstad in Sweden on February 2-5 in 2009.  The event was hosted by Kristianstad University.
  • Andreas Hadjichambis of the LWG of the Cyprus University of Technology presented a poster on: "CoReflect: Digital support for inquiry, collaboration and reflection in socio-scientific debates"  at the Panhellenic conference: "Contemporary issues of research on Ecology", which took place at the University of Thessaly in Volos, Greece on Oct.9-12th 2008.
  • The first CoReflect Knowledge Sharing Workshop (KSWI) took place at Twente University, The Netherlands, between May 23-May 25, 2008.  The event was hosted by Twente University and Ben Gurion University Israel. 
  • The CoReflect kick-off meeting took place in Limassol, Cyprus (March 2008), hosted by the Cyprus University of Technology.

Of Interest

  • CoReflect will soon be joining Scientix, the new Internet-based Information Platform on Science Education, that European Schoolnet is managing on behalf of the European Commission.Scientix aims to create a new web-based community for Science Education targeted at teachers and researchers, through the setting-up and managing of a user-friendly information platform to facilitate regular dissemination and sharing of progress, know-how, and best practices in science education across the European Union and the member countries of the Seventh Framework Programme. The portal is available in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Polish (and the resources in any of the 23 EU languages). The portal can be accessed at: http://scientix.eu You can also download the Scientix flyer (pdf).
  • Opening of a research associate position at the Cyprus University of Technology team. Apply by May 20th 2010.

  • Local Working Groups (LWGs) are currently in the phase of enacting the learning environment they designed and the learning environment they adapted from their collaborating LWG (cLWG). Among the learning environments that are currently been enacted are the following: Biotechnology (in Greek and Hebrew), Nicotine (in Hebrew and Greek), Global warming (Greek and German), Water pollution (German and Greek), Extraterrestrial life (Swedish and Greek), Sustainability (Dutch and Greek) and Fog control (Greek and Dutch). Find more information about the CoReflect learning environments. 

 
 
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