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Empowering migrant communities through science
Native Scientist, the non-profit Europe-wide organisation providing ´Science+language’ educational workshops for migrant pupils and webinar trainings on science outreach for scientists aged 20-40 year olds has recently hosted its first online workshop . Involving 10-15 year old Portuguese-speaking pupils from Cuxhaven, in northern Germany, they were joined by scientists Carolina Peralta and Hanna Fokt, to hear about biological clocks that exist in all living organisms and that help them adapt to different times of the day and the year. They also learnt that many bacteria are living in/on our body and they help us to stay healthy and digest food.Since its foundation in 2013, Native Scientist has organized over 150 workshops, reaching over 3,000 pupils and creating a network of 800 international scientists dedicated to improving science and language education in 10 different languages.
Native Scientist is open to receive requests from teachers and from scientists.
Teachers: host a ‘Native Scientist’ workshop
Scientists: inspire leaders of the futurePrincipal contact: Joana Moscoso
Website: www.nativescientist.com
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(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world
Science literacy is often held up as crucial for avoiding science-related misinformation and enabling more informed individual and collective decision-making. But research has not yet examined whether science literacy enables this, nor what skills it would need to encompass to do so.A report by Emily L. Howell and Dominique Brossard poses three questions to outline what it should mean to be science literate in today’s world: 1) How should we conceptualize science literacy? 2) How can we achieve this science literacy? and 3) What can we expect science literacy’s most important outcomes to be?
The report suggests that Science literacy, should be best conceptualized as encompassing three dimensions of literacy spanning the lifecycle: Civic science literacy, digital media science literacy, and cognitive science literacy.
The authors conclude that achieving science literacy, particularly for adults, poses challenges and will probably require a structural perspective. Digital divides continue to be a major structural barrier, and community literacy and building science literacy into media and science communication provide promising opportunities.
Emily L. Howell and Dominique Brossard
Full text article PNAS April 13, 2021 118 (15) e1912436117
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Webinar: Realizing the Potential of Open for Equitable, Resilient Recovery - 5 May 2021
Open access and open science more broadly have great potential to accelerate the research necessary to deliver on the SDGs, as well as to place high quality information into the hands of citizens, helping them take better decisions.
Yet openness alone does not guarantee equity in access to and use of information to support development. Furthermore, the abundance of free information sources online can all too often lead to confusion and the rapid spread of misinformation. The COVID-19 pandemic has only underlined the urgency of finding solutions.
Being held in conjunction with the UN Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals, 4 to 5 May 2021 this side-event will explore the issues which governments and other stakeholders will need to resolve in order to realise the potential of open access and open science as accelerators of strong, sustainable and equitable development.
Speakers:
- Dilara Begum, Chair, Department of Information and Library Sciences, East-West University, Bangladesh
- Ellen Tise, Senior Director, Library and Information Services, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Omo Oaiya, Chief Strategy Officer, WACREN, Ghana
- Thanos Giannakopoulos, Head, Dag Hammarskjold Library
- Jonathan Hernandez Perez, Researcher, UNAM, Mexico
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eLearning Africa Primary and Secondary Education Virtual Exchange, 7-13 June 2021
E-Learning Africa, a global network of professionals working in the field of ICT supported education and training, has launched the eLearning Africa Primary and Secondary Education Virtual Exchange as one part of a series of peer-to-peer events.Offering the opportunity to join a Community of Practice and meet colleagues, stakeholders, policy makers, decision makers, educators, and providers of online learning and EdTech products, at a time when new education solutions have never been so relevant. The e-Learning Africa online platform allows users to engage, learn and meet from office or home.
Details of the e-Learning Africa Annual Conference, Academy, Webinars, Round Tables, Networking Events and Newsletter are available in English and French.
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Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely!: 23, 27 and 29 April 2021
An international online event examining the crucial role of media and information literacy (MIL) for the good of society. The webinar will culminate in the launch of UNESCO’s MIL Curriculum for Educators and Learners(second edition).
A flyer providing more details is available and you may register for the event from on.unesco.org
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Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)
Promoting ocean science, policy and management for sustainable development.
The United Nations Decade will aim provide a common framework to ensure that ocean science can fully support countries’ actions to sustainably manage the Oceans and more particularly to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.Embracing participative and transformative processes so that scientists, policy makers, managers, and service users can work together to ensure that ocean science delivers greater benefits for both the ocean ecosystem and for society.
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Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Education Competition for Teachers 2021
Organised within the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign, the Nature Based Solution (NBS) competition aims to highlight the importance of integrating nature and ecosystems to deliver social, ecological and economic benefits, increasing biodiversity and contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation in STEM education.The Competition is divided into three strands with up to 60 possible winners:
- Stream 1: Submit a new Learning Scenario on NBS;
- Stream 2: Submit a new Learning Scenario on NBS tried out with students (i.e., submit your Learning Scenario and a Story of Implementation explaining how it went with your students);
- Stream 3: Try out one of the 15 original NBS Learning Scenarios in class and tell how it went with a Story of Implementation.
The competition is open until 30 April 2021. To participate, please consult the terms and conditions, available on the landing page of the 2021 STEM Discovery Campaign
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Indonesian Science Project Olympiad 2021
ISPO (the Indonesian Science Project Olympiad) aims to encourage a love of science, cultivate scientific thinking, conduct research, and develop and produce scientific products. Involving Indonesian youth who attend school it is also seen to make an important contribution to the community by preparing young people to be creative, innovative, and responsible.Olympiad activities take place in the fields of biology, chemistry, computer sciences, environment, physics and technology.
This year, 106 finalists were selected.
- Biology - 24
- Chemistry – 15
- Computer Science -10
- Environmental Sciences 24
- Physics – 10
- Technology – 23
View details of the Olympiad in English and Bhasa
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Innovations in STEM education during the Pandemic: online symposium
Native Scientist, together with Tuebingen University (Germany) and Lancaster University (UK), is organising an online symposium "Innovations in STEM education during the Pandemic" with renowned speakers Suzanne Dillon (OECD), Louise Archer (UCL), and João Costa (Secretary of State for Education, Portugal).If you would like to present your project during the symposium please complete and submit the following form by the 15th March 2021.
Register for the event taking place on the 23rd of April, please go here
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Climate Literacy: celebrate International Women's Day
Women in Leadership: Fighting the Climate Crisis through Climate Literacy on Monday, March 8th at1pm EST.Climate Literacy.
For more information visit www.earthday.org