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Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
The Role of the Research Center The Role of the Research Center in Science Inquiry in Science Inquiry
and and the Transfer of Knowledge.the Transfer of Knowledge.
George K. Fanourakis
N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
What is science ?
Scientific knowledge: the collective product of individual contributions of scientists, purified and extended by mutual criticism and intellectual cooperation.
Science: the collection of disciplines which produce scientific knowledge
Scientists: A really peculiar bunch of people educated and trained to a certain attitude to nature.
They strive to produce sensible knowledge and obtain consensus with all fellow scientists.
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Entities established and supported by the society to advance the sciences by producing
new scientific knowledge.
Scientific Research Centers
Since it is widely believed that science does good
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Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
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Schematic encapsulation of organic contaminants in the nanocavities of dendrimers.
Analysis of black painting of pithos
Some more benefits to society
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
New Scientific Knowledge
The Research Centers continuously:
Produce new knowledge understand nature
Develop and Advance Technology
The high levels of new knowledge higher education
The basic levels of the new knowledge must flow to the secondary education system
The new knowledge global consensus established knowledge
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
The importance of secondary educationSecondary education produces the future citizen
The future citizen must be properly shaped such as to:
understand the world around (laws of nature)
able to cope with the technological progress
able to have an educated opinion as policy maker
How is this done ? Is it done ? NO, or too little
The knowledge gap between scientists and normal people will widen the few possessing the knowledge and the many who do not
Will we have the comeback of Egyptian priesthood ?
The new knowledge must be transferred at the secondary level
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Is there a knowledge gap ?
There is enormous scientific and technological progress in the last century the amount of knowledge doubles every 5 years
The emerging citizen is left behind, suspicious of every new technology which claims to benefit society. Or … any competent technocrat can easily cheat him.
The Research centers spend more and more time and effort to ‘outreach’ activities to try to explain to the people their work and its importance.
The secondary education textbooks are not up to date.The teachers are not trained to cope with the teaching of the new knowledge
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Assume wise leaders !
Obviously the cooperation of the producers of the new knowledge is required
Emphasis on teaching of what is considered important
Training of the teachers at specific time intervals
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Research methodology in Secondary Education
Back in 1988 my group at INP made the following observation:
A student ready to learn (‘acquire new knowledge’) is similar to
the scientist trying to acquire new knowledge.
One acquires efficiently new knowledge the other does not
The students do it by studying their books, helped by the teacher
The scientists do it by active research designing and conducting experiments and analyzing their data,
communicating and discussing the results
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Experimentation in schools – ΣΕΠΠΕ programs
We had the opportunity to implement and test this idea in Greek high schools in two different projects
1. Devise instrumentation and design experiments for students which use the research methodology to obtain learning
2. Use a real telescope connect it to the internet and design experiments which use the research methodology for teaching
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Scattering table
Two examples
A new role for the Research InstitutesProducers of educational technology
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Searching for gravitational microlensing
A new role for the Research InstitutesProducers of educational technology
Two examples
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Learning is a dynamical process
The neuro and cognitive sciences are actually able to ‘see’ a living brain as it learns and showed that learning does not occur with the traditional mechanistic way.
The brain does not function serially but processes the various kinds of information in parallel.
Learning is not accumulation of information but the mechanism of construction of concepts through processing multiple representations of knowledge.
The brain is not a hard disk to store information but a ‘plastic’ neural network which learns better when in the learning process the body and all the senses participate.
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Tele-Education / Tele-ResearchLarge Scientific Instruments in schools
Kefallinia,5-6 July 2004
Symposium on Advanced Technologies in Education
Research Institutions: what for ??
• Create New Scientific Knowledge
• Apply Scientific Knowledge to benefit society
• Train young scientists in the Scientific Way
• Transfer results and techniques of Applied Science to Industry
• Transfer the new knowledge to Educational Institutions
There is also something very important that the research institutes can do for the secondary education
• Devise methods to improve learning