Human Science Pedagogy Puns

Hi, I'm in my initial training year of my secondary school science PGCE.

I have an assignment coming up where I must choose a science specific pedagogy to implement in my lessons and to reflect and critically analyse. I'm really dreading this assignment. Has anyone got any good science specific pedagogical approaches that I could hone in on to make this assignment a little less daunting and more fun.

Thank you!

Do you teach CS using critical pedagogy? If so, what curricula, topics, or resources do you know of that ingrain critical pedagogy into CS content?

(They don't have to be coding experiences! I am also interested in teaching CS ethics and its impact on society.)

The reason I ask is because I am currently writing curriculum for my introductory high school computer science class and want to tie in critical pedagogy practices with my lessons and activities but have been struggling to find any examples or resources out there with this CP approach.

To get an idea of what I'm interested in, here are two mini units I have created:

• Predictive Policing: Students learn about the underlying algorithms of predictive policing technology and how it is implemented in cities across the U.S. They also look at community responses and sentiments towards predictive policing to start forming their own opinion. Students then research information and create an artifact (poster, website, paper, etc) that argues for or against predictive policing as a summative assessment.
• Empower through Power: After learning the basics of graphs, students discover Kruskal's and Prim's algorithms for finding the Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) through real-world prompts (by hand, no coding). As a summative assessment, students must use these MST algorithms to map out the most cost-efficient and accessible electric grid for the Navajo Nation (who just recently started getting completely connected to the electric grid [link]).

Any help would be appreciated, and...it would be nice to see who else interested in making CS education a medium for teaching critical consciousness :)

In order to build a non-hegemonic knowledge what should the position of the critical pedagogy towards science be, considering it as an imposition of absolute and objective reality

I just graduated and I can't seem to find my way. I am aware of the fact that it won't be this easy, but I kind of feel lost, ironically since my dream career is education and career development counselor.

The degree sounds pretty specific but in fact it should give you plenty of opportunities to choose from, from educational consultant, school counselor, trainer, teachers' trainer, educational and social projects and programs writer, social pedagogue, kindergarten teacher, social sciences teacher BUT every time I apply for a job, it either requires min. 3 years of experience or I get the feeling that I wouldn't know how to handle the situation and I would mess up, more precisely, I feel like I'm an imposter science I don't have any practical experience.

Now, I can do a lot of things with only my bachelor's degree, but during my program, we haven't really been thought essential practical knowledge so I wouldn't put the blame on myself entirely (I've always wanted to learn and have been amongst the first students in my group. I probably should've done more volunteering, though).

Anyway, I need a job to pay my rent, at the same time I have to gain experience in the field and I don't know how to begin. I don't want to act as if I knew what I'm doing and end up messing with someone's life/time in any way.

I’d even consider it a crime against humanity, but that’s just me.

Society has proven itself quite evil by inventing this “solution” to infertility that does not need to exist, and allowing insurance to pay for it. At the same time, it has made adoption, the one humane route to parenthood, ridiculously complicated and expensive even for the best suited potential parents.

Of course, every reasonable measure should be taken to ensure that those who want to adopt are actually fit to do so. But the extremes that it has been taken to, and the sheer financial burden, has given infertile couples reason to believe that IVF is the better option. It’s made those who would’ve otherwise adopted hesitant, and it’s given the most selfish natalists among them something to hide behind when others ask why they don’t adopt. They don’t have to expose their selfishness of wanting their “own” baby, instead they can use reasons that seem practical why adoption is not for them.

Any child conceived via IVF is no more special than one conceived naturally. Contrary to what their parents probably believe, they’re not some angel sent from heaven, they don’t have a single superior gene, and have no greater chance of being “successful” in life than anyone else. They might end up being nothing their parents wanted them to be. They very well may die tomorrow. Whatever the case, they’ve just become another number, another statistic, another body on a planet that is DYING from all the other bodies it currently supports. I don’t see how people thought it was okay to use science to unnecessarily produce more of the thing that is driving us closer to the premise of WALL-E.

That brainpower could have gone to much more worthwhile causes. Ones that actually aim to diminish suffering, not create more of it. Just think of all the children that wouldn’t still be in foster care if all the energy devoted to IVF was instead directed at making adoption more understood, accessible, affordable, and prevalent. Anyone who truly loves children and wants to give one a good home would have their wishes fulfilled. Infertile wanna-breeders who just want a little mini-me and see adoption as beneath them would drown in their misery, and it would be okay to let them.

Part of me wants a pre-Handmaids Tale infertility pandemic to sweep the world, of course without the Gilead-style consequences. Just something to teach selfish natalists and IVF proponents a lesson.

Rant over.

I hear that some Christians believe the scientific version of human evolution and I just want to know how does that work with the bible, I wanna know because I'm scared and I think I'm slowly becoming atheist. help

-from a concern dude

I figure thre are many more theories out there than just those listed on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_education#Normative_educational_philosophies

I'm trying to find a pedagogy theory like 'Essentialism', rigorous learning and testing over a topic, but one that is focused mostly on STEM topics and applied vo-tech topics (with some humanities and social topics thrown in of course)...

has there ever been a school or theory or approach like this? sort of like, 'let's shorten english history electives and social studies in high school and demand more math science and vocational courses in the timespace taken' ... which could be a bad idea, but I just want to know, which person/theorist has said this. Thanks if you can help

Rant incoming. I've been training for two years. I move around a lot and have been a member of a handful of different schools. I know it's not a lot of time but I'm realizing that I don't know how to play any positions and the closest semblance I have to a game is some sort of improvised pressure passing.

Nobody has ever actually taught me how to play any position in any depth. It's like it's expected that I learned that... I don't know when. Some time in the past.

Everything is like "here's a back take from RDLR" which I can never fucking use because I drilled it on a cooperating opponent and more importantly have never actually been taught to play RDLR. I've been trying to learn and apply some open guard stuff in sparring but everyone acts like it's the olympics and I get passed immediately because nobody taught me any details about playing the position. So I just revert to wrestling and scrambling like a retard.

Or even closed guard. I know more techniques from there than any other guard, but most of it I've never used because I've only used closed guard:

1. When drilling with 0% resistance

2. When in a fucking thunderdome fight to the death in sparring

Or for simpler examples, how about teaching and training fucking grip breaks? Grip fighting? Escapes? Even passing? Stand up? The precursors to being able to actually apply these hundreds of moves you're stuffing into my head?

Why am I wasting time running laps and doing elementary school stretches? Why do we drill on people that behave like vegetables? Why do you show a move once every 9 months and expect me to be able to use it? Why don't we do positional sparring?

Maybe I'm training at the wrong places or something. It's just frustrating. I feel like I have a lot of techniques in my head but have never been given the chance to learn how to apply them effectively.

I'm not expecting to be amazing after a short time training but I want to be efficient with my time. I even have a notebook and drill stuff in my head. I'm not trying to put a bunch of blame on someone else but I am really dedicated to learning but it feels like most aren't dedicated to teaching (well).

(Apologies if this isn't the right place for such a post. I see lots of advice for undergraduates hoping to pursue research in math and science, but haven't come across anything for the "soft" stuff like their history and pedagogy.)

I'm an undergrad math student (will have one more term left after the summer) and I'm hoping to get some advice on summer plans. While I really like math, and I'm considering grad school, I've always been really interested in science education, science in pop culture, and the history of science. I love the book A Short History of Nearly Everything and Youtube channels like Vsauce. Working as a science writer or museum curator would probably be a dream job for me. I'm hoping to do something in that realm in the future.

Does anyone know of any good ways to get involved in this sort of thing? It seems like people in this arena come from a pretty wide range of backgrounds. When I think about the parts of math and science that I really like, I keep coming back to the historical, cultural, philosophical, and pedagogical aspects, so something along those lines would be awesome.

I'm living in Canada right now, but I'd love to travel so I'm open to any location. I also have good grades (just under 4.0), if that matters for anything. That said, I'm really open to anything, academia or otherwise.

If anyone has any suggestions I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!

E.g there have been studies conducted to see if marinating meat makes any difference, in the sense “it entering the meat”, and it turns out it doesn’t. Just mixing the sauce with the meat just before cooking yields the same result (see Heston Blumenthal’s MRI test, showing that it barely penetrates the meat unless there’s yoghurt in it and even then it’s not definitive what difference that even does). Meanwhile, we’ve learned to cooking in temperature controlled baths in vacuum sealed bags (sous vide).