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Hi Bill,
I would be very interested to hear the recordings when they become 
available.
Thanks,
Lynn

On 2/11/10 8:13 PM, Watson, Bill wrote:
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> Hi, everyone -
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> The National Museum of Natural History's Senate of Scientists and Office of Education&  Outreach have arranged a series of talks called “Beyond Diffusion: The Science of Science Education” to foster conversations among science and education staff about how we know what we know in education and how research informs our work. We've arranged one seminar a month for five months, starting Tuesday the 16th with Bruce MacFadden, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Informal Science Education Program Officer, National Science Foundation. The description of the series is below. For those in the Washington, DC, area, please let me know if you'd like to attend any of the sessions, and feel free to extend the invitation to your colleagues.
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> For those outside of the area, we are recording the presentations. I will be in touch with links to the recordings once they are uploaded.
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> Thanks,
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> Bill
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> Bill Watson
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> Chief of Onsite Learning
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> Office of Education&  Outreach
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> Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
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> BEYOND DIFFUSION: THE SCIENCE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION
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> February 16, 2010, 10:30 AM
> Communicating Evolution in Natural History Museums
> Bruce MacFadden, Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Informal Science Education Program Officer, National Science Foundation
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> March 23, 2010, 10:30 AM
> Research Methods and Surprising Findings: How Rigorous Research and Analysis Reveals What People Really Do and Learn in Museums
> Martin Storksdieck, Director of the Board on Science Education, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council
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> April 20, 2010, Time and place TBD
> Learning Science across Environments: Museums, Home, and School
> Philip Bell, Associate Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Washington
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> May 18, 2010, 10:30 AM
> Who is “The Public”? Researching Identity in Museums
> John Falk, Professor of Science and Mathematics Education, Oregon State University
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> June 9, 2010, 10:30 AM
> What Do Visitors Really Know about Evolution? How We Know What They Know, and What We Can Do about It
> Margaret Evans, Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
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> Seminars will be in the NMNH Executive Conference Room at 10:30 AM unless otherwise noted.
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> SPEAKERS
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> Philip Bell is Associate Professor of the Learning Sciences and the Geda and Phil Condit Professor of Science and Mathematics Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. He studies everyday expertise and cognition in science and health, the design and use of novel learning technologies in science classrooms, children's argumentation, culturally responsive science instruction, the use of emerging digital technologies within youth culture, and new approaches to inquiry instruction in science. Dr. Bell is a member of the NAS Board on Science Education and co-chaired the NRC report Learning Science in Informal Environments.
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> E. Margaret Evans is Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Assistant Research Scientist at the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She examines the development of childrens’ intuitions about causation because these provide the foundation for their understanding of the major domains of inquiry they encounter in and out of school. Her Ph.D. in developmental psychology focused on the emergence of evolutionary concepts in families from diverse religious communities. She has been a co-PI, learning researcher, and exhibit developer for three different exhibitions on evolution.
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> John H. Falk is Sea Grant Professor in Free-Choice Learning in the Department of Science and Mathematics Education at Oregon State University, Portland. Before going to OSU, he founded and directed the Institute for Learning Innovation where for twenty years he oversaw more than 200 consulting projects across a wide range of free-choice learning institutions. Dr. Falk has authored over one hundred scholarly articles and chapters in the areas of learning, biology and education, and helped to create several nationally important out-of-school educational curricula. His most recent book is Identity and the Museum Visitor Experience (2009).
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> Bruce J. MacFadden is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History and Professor of Geological Sciences, Latin American Studies, and Zoology at University of Florida, Gainesville. He has authored over 150 articles on mammalian systematics, paleoecology, and evolution, and also published research on how visitors to natural history museums understand evolution. He has participated in many exhibits and public education projects at FMNH. This year MacFadden is Program Officer for Informal Science Education in NSF’s Directorate of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings.
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> Martin Storksdieck is Director of the Board on Science Eduaction at the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council where he oversees studies that address a wide range of issues related to science education. He is also a research fellow at the Institute for Learning Innovation, involved in a variety of research studies on informal science learning. Martin is interested in factors that influence scientific and technical literacy, particularly the role of lifelong learning within the ecology of learning opportunities. Another focus of Martin's interest is the intersection of science, society and learning, primarily as those relate to the understanding of evolution and environmental change.
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