[LTER-education] Websites that house curriculum for teachers to discover?

Fri May 1 09:36:40 PDT 2020

Thank you Marty and Kari for your thoughts-- I'd be very interested in
pursuing this as well as being on the back-end of reviewing materials.
Kari's points are perfectly focusing for a start.

Annette Laursen Brickley (she, her, hers)

NES-LTER Education & Outreach Coord.
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TEMming the Gaps Consulting
Mattapoisett
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207-951-6273 (mobile)

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 12:19 PM O'Connell, Kari Elizabeth Bisbee <
kari.oconnell at oregonstate.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
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>
> I want to make sure you’re aware of the RAPID proposal that several OBFS
> folks just submitted – see summary attached. I am a co-PI on this proposal
> to provide guidance in developing virtual learning experiences that are
> meaningful. It was basically invited by NSF (NEON and FSML program
> officers) so it has an extremely high chance of being funded. I will be
> pulling together several UFERN people for a Delphi study to do this work.
> There was a bigger vision for it to be a one-stop shop for virtual field
> learning resources, but that bigger vision got put to the side to some
> extent to focus on developing a few specific kinds of virtual learning
> experiences right now with something bigger happening in the future. That
> was based on Peter McCartney’s strong suggestion. I also gave them a lot of
> advice to not create a clearinghouse without considering how it might be
> connected to other efforts, such as Marty is advising below!! And I warned
> them against the philosophy of, “we will build it, they will come!” which
> does not work. So…I would advise that we keep that in mind here as well!
> Although I think paired with professional development and connections to
> other efforts, this kind of thing could be helpful to teachers.  ESA is
> keeping a list (I think). ESA is also doing a series of water cooler chats
> that have been well attended and welcomed by the community – lots of great
> discussion going on.  I have to be honest that I would have very little
> time to devote to a proposal such as this, but I do know the current
> president of NSTA very well (he is a co-PI with me on one of my projects),
> and I’d be glad to reach out to him if that would ever be helpful. NAAEE
> might be worth throwing in the mix. I’m also always happy to be part of an
> ideation session. That’s my favorite!
>
>
>
> Quick additional thought – I think it’s important to think about what can
> LTER uniquely bring to this work? I say it’s place-based and data focused.
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> Hope you all are doing well!!!
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> Best,
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> Kari
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> *From:* education <education-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Marty
> Downs
> *Sent:* Friday, May 1, 2020 8:48 AM
> *To:* Snow, Pamela M. <psnow at fas.harvard.edu>
> *Cc:* education at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-education] Websites that house curriculum for
> teachers to discover?
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> If there truly is no good, well-known place, it would make sense to pursue
> funding for this with a couple of other organizations (maybe ESA, OBFS, and
> NSTA?). I think it's important that it include time for promotion as well
> as reviewing and some technical support. All three aspects are important.
> SERC is revamping their infrastructure and we might be able to go in with
> them on something, but I didn't detect much excitement from the committee
> after their presentation. I don't think going it alone will make an
> appealing funding proposal.
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> I would love to have this conversation in the EOC, if there's real
> interest.
>
> -Marty
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> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 8:15 AM Snow, Pamela M. <psnow at fas.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
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> Yes, this issue of finding a place to share teacher resources keeps coming
> up!!!! I think it is good to notice how often this is brought up.  To me,
> it demonstrates a need for a place for us to put LTER education resources.
> Saying that, it is also challenging for anyone to tackle this, as we each
> juggle so many other balls.
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> I had made the choice to focus on posting and sharing our resources within
> Harvard Forest outreach mechanisms…website, blog and email.  And have
> participated in the LTER digital library when it was operational.  I agree
> with Steven that the vetting process was a stumbling block, because it
> involves time and energy not only for the review process, but it requires
> someone to coordinate and maintain it.  At one time, LTER paid Beth Simmons
> for that role, but the funding did not continue and she moved on since
> then.  Like everything else, it requires a long term funding commitment…and
> I’m not sure we can get that?
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> Without the funding,  if there is a place Marty can provide to post
> unreviewed resources, we could do that, but I suppose we have to ask what
> the value of that is, over posting on our own site websites…I think the
> review process was one of the major things that appealed to me about the
> digital library…both as someone contributing and as someone referring
> teachers there.
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> Is anyone keen on taking this on??? Is this worthy of discussion on an EOC
> call?
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> Pamela
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> *Pamela M. Snow*
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> *From:* education <education-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> *On Behalf Of *Steven
> McGee
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 29, 2020 5:48 PM
> *To:* Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
> *Cc:* education at lternet.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-education] Websites that house curriculum for
> teachers to discover?
>
>
>
> Hi Marty,
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>
> Thanks for the reminder. When the library was set up, we established a
> rigorous review process for the materials and the decision was made to
> include only lessons (not units) in the repository. We only had funding to
> do the review process once and now I am not sure what the review process
> is. If we wanted to relax the requirement to have materials reviewed and
> allow units in addition to lessons sponsored by the sites to be included,
> it would open the door to adding more materials.
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> If we decide to go that route there will need to be some basic updates to
> the search/filter functionality. Also it still has Sam’s name and email. We
> should probably put someone else’s name there.
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> Steven
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> On Apr 29, 2020, at 4:02 PM, Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu> wrote:
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> I have to pop in with a reminder that we also have a (formatted,
> organized, searchable) resource on the LTER Network website:
> https://lternet.edu/education-digital-library/
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> There is a chicken-and-egg problem with it, though. There aren't enough
> resources uploaded to make it worthwhile to do a lot of promotion -- and
> there's no reason for you all to add resources if it's not being
> effectively promoted.
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> To make it really work, we would need a concerted effort to add as many
> LTER resources as possible to the site. If it were fleshed out with a bunch
> of resources, we could add a site (or region) category to the filters and
> provide you with a link to the resources for your site or region (or a feed
> of the posts). That would allow you to easily build on each other's
> resources and (once we hit some critical mass), make it worthwhile for the
> LNO to invest in sending someone (one of us or one of you) to promote it at
> NSTA meetings.
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> I haven't promoted this approach in the past because I always thought
> there were better (better known and better organized) resources out there
> that do the same thing -- and that we should be partnering with them rather
> than growing our own. If I'm hearing that there aren't, I'll revise that
> thinking. (Although I still think we ought to work with ESA or an
> environmental education group to maximize the reach).
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> Maybe a topic for an upcoming meeting?
>
> Marty
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:20 PM Annette Brickley <abrickley.edu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I'm blanking on one I used to use, but I've recently found
> https://ngss.nsta.org/classroom-resources.aspx
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> be useful.
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> If it fits into climate and energy,
> https://cleanet.org/clean/educational_resources/collection/index.html
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> Or, if it fits, SERC has options for contributing as well:
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> https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/contribute.html
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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:48 PM Alexandra Rose <
> alexandra.rose at colorado.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
>
> I’m working with some graduate students on developing hands-on activities
> intended specifically for classroom use (not really formal curricula).
> There are so many things on line now, especially given current events, but
> are you aware of any particularly reputable, long-lived websites where
> people can upload curriculum-like content for teachers (and informal
> educators) to discover and use? Many of the sites I’m aware of seem to only
> house their own activities that they’ve developed in-house.
>
>
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> Thanks for any leads!
>
> Alex
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> Alexandra P. Rose, PhD
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