翻墙:克服科学、技术、工程和数学知识动员的障碍

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Matthew R. Wilkins, Stephanie E. Rapciak, Carlos C. Goller, Jory Weintraub, A. Mikaelyan
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在气候变化、新兴疾病、人工智能和虚假信息肆虐等全球性挑战面前,提高科学素养至关重要。这不仅对未来几代科学、技术和工程人员至关重要,而且对所有人做出明智决策也至关重要。播客、科普文章和博物馆活动等非正式科学传播活动是动员知识和培养科学素养的基础设施的重要组成部分。然而,在本《视角》中,我们强调有必要提高我们在 K-12 正规课堂中开展 STEM 外联活动的能力。虽然大多数非正式的外联机制都需要受众自己去寻找内容,但课堂包括了那些尚未参与 STEM 的难以接触到的目标受众。近几十年来,我们开发了大量资源来支持非正式推广活动,但在 K-12 正规课堂领域,此类活动却相对较少。我们主张在知识动员和 STEM 参与基础设施的这两个重要组成部分之间更加均衡地调配资源和开展工作。我们特别强调了 K-12 教师作为知识传播渠道的关键作用,以及科学家与教师在个人和组织层面加强合作的必要性。我们还主张在非正式和正式外联领域加强项目间的合作,并致力于构建传播网络,以便在不同项目间大规模共享外联材料。我们的文章旨在引发讨论,探讨如何调整目标、资助机制和政策的重点,以发展应对未来挑战所需的科学参与型社会。
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Scaling the wall: overcoming barriers to STEM knowledge mobilization
Improving science literacy is crucial amidst global challenges like climate change, emerging diseases, AI, and rampant disinformation. This is vital not only for future STEM generations but for all, to make informed decisions. Informal science communication efforts such as podcasts, popular science articles, and museum events are an essential part of the infrastructure for mobilizing knowledge and nurturing science literacy. However, in this Perspective, we emphasize the need to grow our capacity for STEM outreach in the formal K-12 classroom. While the majority of informal outreach mechanisms require audience members to seek out content, classrooms include those hard-to-reach target audiences that are not already STEM-engaged. We contrast the multitude of resources that have been developed to support informal outreach in recent decades with a relative paucity of such efforts in the K-12 formal classroom realm. We advocate for a more balanced deployment of resources and efforts between these two vital components of our knowledge mobilization and STEM engagement infrastructure. In particular, we highlight the key role of K-12 teachers as conduits for knowledge dissemination and the need for greater collaboration between scientists and teachers at individual and organizational levels. We also advocate for greater collaboration across programs in both the informal and formal outreach space, and dedicated effort to construct dissemination networks to share outreach materials at scale across disparate programs. The aim of our piece is to generate discussion about how we might refocus goals, funding mechanisms, and policies to grow the science-engaged society necessary to confront future challenges.
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