Science In-Between

Teaching Science In a Hybrid World

About the show

This is a conversation about how science teaching can move between and connect different worlds - home and school, virtual and face-to-face, science and the classroom.

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Episodes

  • Episode 144: High Grade Professional Work

    June 7th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  43 mins 41 secs

    This week we talk about the difference between topic rebuttal and technique rebuttal. Really just a discussion of how to help people change their own minds.

  • Episode 143: The Little General

    May 31st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  37 mins 43 secs

    In this episode, we discuss Chapter 3 of David McRaney's book, How Minds Change and unpack the impact that perception has on our understandings and interpretations of the world.

  • Episode 142: Always Second Fiddle

    May 24th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  44 mins 32 secs

    This week we talk about what it means to do the relational work of teaching.

  • Episode 141: Lists are Artificial

    May 17th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 53 secs

    In this episode, Scott and Ollie revisit and update the advancements of artificial intelligence and discuss its societal and educational impacts.

  • Episode 140: Not VNOS or D-Man

    May 10th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  51 mins 54 secs

    This week we talk about the Nature of Science.

  • Episode 139: Some Portion of the Truth

    May 3rd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  45 mins 40 secs

    In this episode, we discuss two articles on practice-based teacher education.

  • Episode 138: Unintentionally Matching Outfits

    April 26th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  43 mins 51 secs

    This week we talk about doing equity work with white teachers, especially in context where there are only white people in the room.

  • Episode 137: Dispositional Throwdown

    April 19th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  1 hr 5 mins

    In this episode, we debate the concept of dispositions in teacher education.

  • Episode 136: Teaching Layer Cake

    April 13th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  46 mins 44 secs

    This week we talk about facilitating different kinds of conversations we engage in because we teach people who teach people.

  • Episode 135: Researching Epistemic Agency

    April 6th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  41 mins 24 secs

    In this episode, we discuss some recent research on epistemic agency in science education.

  • Episode 134: Coercive Persuasion

    March 29th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  54 mins 8 secs

    This week we talk about minds and how you change them. We talk about David McRaney's 2022 book How Minds Change.

  • Episode 133: The Agency of Outdated References

    March 22nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  44 mins 5 secs

    In this episode, we revisit the concept of agency and discuss how it applies to students, classrooms, schools, and learning.

  • Episode 132: Umwelt of Podcast Dads

    March 15th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  53 mins 4 secs

    This week we return to Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE) and expand to Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching.

  • Episode 131: Obfuscations for Change

    March 8th, 2023  |  Season 3  |  59 mins 10 secs

    In this episode, we discuss Pennsylvania's new teaching competencies for Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education and how they apply to our roles as science teachers.

  • Episode 130: Silver Bullet Pointing Practice

    March 1st, 2023  |  Season 3  |  47 mins 27 secs

    This week we talk about where to begin with doing Ambitious Science Teaching and how there are no silver bullets to making a change in practice.

  • Episode 129: A Made-Up Sandwich

    February 22nd, 2023  |  Season 3  |  54 mins 14 secs

    In this episode, we discuss the differences between hands-on/minds-on science, discovery learning, inquiry-based instruction, and phenomenon-based science learning.