Scott McDonald
Co-Host of Science In-Between
Dr. Scott McDonald is a Professor of Science Education at The Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Krause Studios for Innovation in the PSU College of Education. He received his undergraduate degree in Physics. He was high school Physics teacher for six years before returning for a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies and Science Education at the University of Michigan. Dr. McDonald takes a design-based approach to research focuses on science teacher learning and student learning in the geosciences. He researches teacher learning, framed as professional pedagogical vision for ambitious and equitable science teaching practices. His current projects, in collabortion with Amy Pallant and Hee-Sun Lee at the Concord Consortium include The Geological Models for Explorations of Dynamic Earth (GEODE), GeoHazard: Modeling Natural Hazards and Assessing Risks project, and Geological Construction of Rock Arrangements from Tectonics: Systems Modeling Across Scales (GeoCRAFT).
Scott McDonald has hosted 225 Episodes.
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Episode 48: Haters Have Got to Hate (or Do They?)
July 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 54 secs
We continue the conversation about PCK and its spawn.
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Episode 47: Scott's Swear Jar
July 21st, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 4 secs
In this episode, we discuss PCK (pedagogical content knowledge) and its impact on the field of education and teacher education.
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Episode 46: Not All Friends of the Show
July 14th, 2021 | Season 1 | 40 mins
This week we summarize our discussion of learning theory and talk about why teachers (or anyone) should care about it.
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Episode 45: Our Mid-Life Crisis Episode
July 7th, 2021 | Season 1 | 50 mins 4 secs
In this week's episode, we discuss the research on learning progressions in science education.
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Episode 44: We are not the Borg
June 30th, 2021 | Season 1 | 53 mins 59 secs
This week we talk about Posner, Strike, Hewson, and Getzog's paper on conceptual change and the theory's impact on science education.
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Episode 43: Heroes, Villians, and Apprentices
June 23rd, 2021 | Season 1 | 52 mins 5 secs
This week, we continue our examination of different learning theories and theorists and dig into Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Lave and Wenger.
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Episode 42: Confronting Your Own IRE
June 16th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 3 secs
We talk about Jay Lemke's book "Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values".
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Episode 41: All the Hammers
June 9th, 2021 | Season 1 | 49 mins 27 secs
In this episode, we continue our learning theory conversation by digging into the seminal article by Brown, Collins and Duguid that popularized the term "cognitive apprenticeship."
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Episode 40: Happy Dewey Day
June 2nd, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 13 secs
John Dewey Episode on Dewey Day.
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Episode 39: Transitions and Manifestations
May 26th, 2021 | Season 1 | 37 mins 56 secs
We transition from learning spaces to an introduction to our series on learning theory.
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Episode 38: Tools are Embedded in Practice
May 19th, 2021 | Season 1 | 39 mins 21 secs
Continue the conversation about design principles for learning spaces - learning spaces should be task responsive.
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Episode 37: Self Deprecating but Accurate
May 12th, 2021 | Season 1 | 41 mins 51 secs
In this episode, we continue our exploration of design principles for learning spaces and introduce our third design principle: learning spaces should have a changeable center.
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Episode 36: Architecturally Agnostic
May 5th, 2021 | Season 1 | 39 mins 24 secs
We talk about our second learning spaces design principle about multiple representations and multiple tools.
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Episode 35: Not Messing Around On the Fringes
April 28th, 2021 | Season 1 | 45 mins 47 secs
In this episode, we lay the foundation for an ongoing discussion of different design principles for learning spaces.
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Episode 34: The Prime Directive(s) on a Napkin
April 21st, 2021 | Season 1 | 41 mins 3 secs
This week we introduce a series about learning environments and what the key principles might be to guide their design.
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Episode 33: Stupid things... And we love them.
April 14th, 2021 | Season 1 | 47 mins 51 secs
This week we talk about things we learned and will carry forward from the remote/hybrid learning experience of the last year.