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Public Engagement with Science Tips

  • How learning occurs

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition Section II describes how learning occurs. Chapter 2 focuses on how experts differ from novices. Experts often notice meaningful patterns and organization structures in information that novices do not. Experts should remember that content knowledge is different from pedagogical knowledge – what comes easy to them might be difficult for a novice. Helping novices recognize patterns in new information assists understanding. Chapter 3 describes how new learning is based on prior knowledge. People learn by using what they already know to construct new understanding. When designing your activity, consider what your participants will bring to the project. What prior knowledge, opinions, and conceptions do they have? How will that affect your design?

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Science, and School

Key Findings from How People Learn

 

  • In-person opportunities

Communicating research and findings to the public is a fundamental component of Broader Impacts. Below you will find best practices and other recommendations to ensure your public engagement activity or learning environment is the best that it can be. Learn about how to maximize your impact on your target audience.

Exploration Project Framework

  • Virtual recommendations

Below you will find resources that will guide the process of converting your projects to an online format. It provides best practices and tips that will improve the quality and accessibility of your content.

 

  • Networking

Below you will find a slide deck containing past NSF Career Award winners including their name, face, background, and focus within the Broader Impact Identity. You will also find a pdf of the partners and programs that are willing to help you find your BI identity.

Names and Faces

  • Why the introduction is important

Demonstrating that scientists are human through stories of life both inside and outside the lab is important for building trust and establishing personal connections with the audience. When a scientist shares a story of how they got interested in science or why they are studying that particular research through a first-person narrative — without use of institutional affiliations — non-scientists are more likely to view them as authentic.

Constructing and Influencing Perceived Authenticity in Science Communication

Communicating science can benefit from scientist ‘being human’

 

  • Becoming a Wisconsin Idea STEM Fellow

There are several requirements for your journey to becoming a Wisconsin Idea STEM Fellow. Below you will find these requirements and other resources that will guide your preparation and help you efficiently keep track of your plans and updates.

Planning Hub

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Public Engagement with Science Tips

How learning occurs

This resource describes how learning occurs. This information will help you think in ways that will optimize the comprehension from the participants of your project.

This article summarizes some key takeaways from how people learn. These findings should be used as techniques to ensure your participants truly learn and understand your material

In-person opportunities

Below you will find best practices and other recommendations to ensure your public engagement activity or learning environment is the best that it can be. Learn about how to maximize your impact on your target audience.

Virtual recommendations

This strategy document will provide best practices for moving your project into a virtual space.

This document contains questions to ask yourself when designing your virtual or hybrid project.

This resource provides you with best practices for ensuring your content is accessible in a virtual space.

This document contains a checklist of items to do when you are creating a pre-recorded video.

This resource contains a checklist of to-do items when you are doing a live call (something like Zoom).

Networking

Here you will find a slide deck containing past NSF Career Award winners including their name, face, background, and focus within the Broader Impact Identity.

You will also find a pdf of the partners and programs that are willing to help you find your BI identity. Here there are links to pages 1-3 of the 4 page document.

Here is the 4th and final page of the partners and programs connected to Broader Impacts.

Why the introduction is important

When a scientist shares a story of how they got interested in science or why they are studying that particular research through a first-person narrative, non-scientists are more likely to view them as authentic.

Demonstrating that scientists are human through stories of life both inside and outside the lab is important for building trust and establishing personal connections with the audience.

How to become a Wisconsin Idea STEM Fellow

Below you will find these requirements and other resources that will guide your preparation and help you efficiently keep track of your plans and updates.

This is an Excel sheet that you can download to keep track of your journey of becoming a Wisconsin Idea STEM Fellow. This will help you plan better and stay on top of things. *You may need to be logged into your wisc email to access this properly.

Grant Proposal Writing

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