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Using Construct-Centered Design to Align Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Development in Emerging Science
Added on 09-OCT-08
Contributed by Jim Pellegrino, Namsoo Shin

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The National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering was established to conduct research on how to effectively introduce emergent sciences into K-16 classrooms, using nanoscale science and engineering (NSE) as an example. One of the NCLT's main goals is to develop an approach to map out the knowledge domains (constructs) associated with NSE and use these domains to guide learning research and the development of instructional materials, assessment, and teacher educat...

Getting in at the Ground Floor: Perspectives from the next generation of NSEE Researchers
Added on 20-JUN-08
Contributed by Thomas Moher, Cesar Delgado, Kelly Hutchinson, Emily Shipley, Sarah Dugan

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The articulation of Nanoscience and Engineering Education as a distinctive research and training domain is a relatively recent phenomenon, but already young researchers are beginning to identify with and make important contributions to the field. In this seminar, four young researchers will describe their experiences as members of the National Center for Learning and teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT), including an overview of the research in which each has been involved and th...

NCLT Contributions to Nanoscience Education at the Undergraduate Level
Added on 14-APR-08
Contributed by Robert Chang

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NCLT has a mission to build national capacity in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NSEE) by reaching over 1 million students. This mission calls for the development of a globally competitive national nano workforce and national cadre of leaders in NSEE. Part of the NCLT?s integrated program focuses on higher education initiatives and the development of undergraduate resources in NSE. As part of this initiative, the Center has developed an online educational resource repository for th...

Thinking Small
Added on 10-APR-08
Contributed by Carl Batt

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There is an overwhelming need on the part of the research community to explain our efforts in nanoscale science and engineering to the general public. To do so effectively there is also a need to catalogue the public's understanding of nanotechnology especially with respect to their ability to comprehend matters of size and scale. As a result of extensive one-on-one surveys a clear picture of the public's understanding has been obtained and it shows little knowledge of the subject especially in ...

Teaching Risk Studies
Added on 26-FEB-08
Contributed by David Berube

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Risk studies needs to be taught to all students. While not necessitating a stand-alone status in educational settings prior to post-secondary education, it might behoove to find creative ways to add components of risk studies to K-12 curriculum. This lecture will examine some of the challenges and components in developing curriculum on risk. Professor David M. Berube teaches a graduate seminar in Risk Communication at NCSU and is PI on a NSF grant to examine how toxicological risks are unpacked ...

How do undergraduate students studying Nanoscience understand 'size and scale'?Results from an exploratory interview study
Added on 15-JAN-08
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It is often assumed that undergraduate students come to college with a firm understanding of the concept 'size and scale', a key idea to the learning of nanoscience. However, a preliminary interview study revealed that, contrary to this belief, many students have difficulty grasping the idea of 'size and scale', particularly when non-visible objects are involved. In this talk, we will share our findings regarding the different types of understandings students construct for "size and scale", and ...

A NanoLeap Into New Science: Instructional Materials-Physical Science and Chemistry
Added on 04-DEC-07
Contributed by John Ristvey

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Nanoparticles are being used in an ever-expanding number of industries?electronics, pharmaceuticals, and energy, just to name a few. A 2001 National Science Foundation report, "Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology," projected that as many as 2 million workers may be needed to support nanotechnology industries worldwide within 15 years. Clearly, we are standing at a critical juncture, or even in the midst of an industrial revolution. Now that nanotechnology has arrived, how do ...

Surface-to-Volume Ratio and Nanotechnology: What's the difference between Perrier and Seltzer water?
Added on 04-DEC-07
Contributed by Gerardo Morell, Ana-Rita Mayol, Carlos Marin, Manuel Gomez

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The concept of surface-to-volume ratio is of fundamental importance in Nanotechnology,especially in applications involving chemical catalysis and nucleation of physical processes. An educational module has been developed to teach the concept of surface-to-volume ratio taking advantage of the commonplace process of bubble formation in Perrier and Seltzer water an its enhancement through the effects of nucleation points of different sizes, ranging from millimeters to micrometers to nanometers, on ...

Student Achievement Testing and Impacts on Curriculum
Added on 04-DEC-07
Contributed by Andrew (Andy) Porter

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It is a cliche to state that what is tested is what is taught, but to what extent is the cliche an accurate statement about education in the United States? What types of student achievement testing are more likely to influence what teachers teach? And is this good or is this bad? ...

When Things Get Small
Added on 12-OCT-07
Contributed by Ivan Schuller

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In this multiple award winning movie, featuring well done hosting from Adam Smith, along with entertaining cameos and analogies, Prof. Ivan Schuller and Rich Wargo of UCSD provide a light-hearted, non-intimidating introduction to the nanoscale and nanoscale science and technology. ?When Things Get Small,? conveys the excitement of science and working at the nanoscale, which is usually hard to convey to an audience through a typical lecture or science paper....

The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU: Toward Anticipatory Governance
Added on 19-SEP-07
Contributed by David Guston

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The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University (CNS-ASU) is an NSF-funded center, created in October 2005, for research, education and outreach on the societal aspects of nano-scale science and engineering (NSE). CNS-ASU involves the collaboration of scores of faculty, students, and staff in more than half a dozen universities across the country. To provide coherence to its broad programs, CNS-ASU attempts to implement "real-time technology assessment" - a vision of s...

Pennsylvania's NSF ATE Regional Center for Nanofabrication Education: A National Resource for Nanotechnology Education
Added on 15-FEB-07
Contributed by Stephen Fonash

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The NSF ATE Regional Center for Nanofabrication Manufacturing was established in 2001. Through the Center, more than 50 associate and baccalaureate degree programs in nanofabrication have been established at colleges and universities across Pennsylvania, including community colleges, State System of Higher Education universities, and Penn State campuses......

Nanotechnology Education - Some Thoughts
Added on 07-FEB-07
Contributed by Mark Ratner

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Mark Ratner presented this keynote address to the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education community gathered in Washington, DC. Ratner is interested in structure at the nanoscale, function at the nanoscale, and the theory of fundamental chemical processes. Mark Ratner has chaired the Chemistry Department at Northwestern, served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and now holds the Morrison Professorship in the Department of Chemistry....

Team-based learning in a nanotechnology courses: Enhancing critical thinking through course structure
Added on 23-JAN-07
Contributed by Linda Vanasupa

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K-12 Nanotechnology Education Outreach for Workforce Development: The Georgia Institute of Technology Model
Added on 23-JAN-07
Contributed by Diana Palma

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At a time when competition for obtaining research grant money is at a critically high level of complexity, coincidentally, the recruitment of U.S. students to science and engineering courses of study and careers is at an all time low. The NSF estimates that by the year 2015 there will be a need for two million workers worldwide in the fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology. Of these, nearly one million will be needed in the U.S. An additional 5 million workers will be needed ......

Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)
Added on 23-JAN-07
Contributed by Robert Chang

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Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will discuss the urgency of improving science education in this country and present how NCLT is granted the opportunity to serve and help fulfill this mission. Chang will explain how the Center is working to build capacity in NSEE......

It's a Nanoworld After All: Using Nanotech Consumer Products to Engage Student Learning
Added on 07-JUL-06
Contributed by Katherine Chen

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A common approach to teaching is to present basic scientific concepts in a logical progression and to end on an interesting application. However, an alternative methodology is to first hook the audience through intriguing questions or to present exciting, new applications of technology. Hence, consumer products of nanotechnology that are currently out on the market can be used to motivate students to understand the underlying scientific principles....

Utilizing research from teaching and learning to design and develop materials that foster in-depth understanding of science content and scientific practices.
Added on 09-MAY-06
Contributed by Joseph Krajcik

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Over the last 15 years, researchers in cognitive science, psychology of learning and education have made important strides in understanding how people learn. Learning scientists and science educators have translated these ideas into guidelines for how to design and develop science education learning environments that can promote deep and connected understanding of challenging science content and scientific practices. In this session, I will summarize the main ideas about how students learn, and ...

Designing Simulations for Nanoscience Applications
Added on 09-MAY-06
Contributed by Umberto Ravaioli, Richard Braatz

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This seminar will provide an introductory overview on the design of simulations for nanoscience applications, directed towards non-experts. The seminar will explore the similarities of the simulation hierarchies employed in chemistry and solid-state applications while discussing the following topics......

Creating Research Links between Science at the Nanoscale and Science Education
Added on 09-MAY-06
Contributed by Nora Sabelli

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This talk will address what is needed to reduce the gap between current science education and science education that incorporates the ideas in current nanoscience. The ability to manipulate matter at increasingly smaller scales of distance and time has blurred the boundaries between disciplines. As a consequence, it increases the science literacy requirements of both workforce and citizenry. This seminar will discuss what we need to do to tackle successfully the educational implications of techn...

Embedding science and technology education into students lifestyles and technology choices
Added on 09-MAY-06
Contributed by Krishna Madhavan

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Learning experiences of the future will be multi-sensory, engage technologies and significant computational power continuously and invisibly, and will be completely engaging. The emergence of highly cross-disciplinary fields like nanoscale science and technology, bioinformatics, and cyberinfrastructure sciences has brought into sharp relief the need to transcend computational, perceptual, and imagination walls in order to educate future generations of students. There have been repeated calls in ...

Developing Nanotechnology Modules for Existing Secondary School Curriculum
Added on 09-MAY-06
Contributed by Linda Schadler, Chang Ryu

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The education and outreach program at Rensselaer's NSF Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures has been focusing on K-12 science education. Through a partnership with a local High School and General Electric, 5 high school teachers developed new teaching modules on nanotechnology and supplementary teaching materials. These modules were incorporated into existing courses and make us of nanoscale analysis tools, such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM)......

Network for Computational Nanotechnologies (NCN) or How can your educational modules contain interactive online simulation?
Added on 06-MAY-06
Contributed by Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Lundstrom, Michael McLennan, Sebastien Goasguen, Krishna Madhavan

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The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) is a multi-university, NSF-funded initiative with a mission to lead in research, education, and outreach to students and professionals, while at the same time deploying a unique web-based cyber-infrastructure to serve the nation's National Nanotechnology Initiative. The primary NCN outreach vehicle is the nanoHUB : our web site found at http://nanoHUB.org......

NCLT Professional Development Activities for Grade 7-12 Teachers
Added on 05-MAY-06
Contributed by Nick Giordano, Renee DeWald

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Successful implementation of newly developed instructional content will require hands-on professional development for teachers. The NCLT professional development component will integrate the tenets of (1) adult learning (2) recent research in professional development of science teachers, and (3) standards and delivery models advocated for science educators. The following topics during the summer and year-round activities will be emphasized:......