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Motivating Through Creative World-Building

Motivating Through Creative World-Building. Process and Framework Going Native Settling In R & D Building Testing Sharing Ten Years with SciCentr and SciFair Margaret Corbit http://www.viewcommunity.net.

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Motivating Through Creative World-Building

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  1. Motivating Through Creative World-Building • Process and Framework • Going Native • Settling In • R & D • Building • Testing • Sharing • Ten Years with SciCentr and SciFair Margaret Corbit http://www.viewcommunity.net

  2. First SciFair (1998-2000): twelve teens at a rural high school came "inworld" to study bioengineering of crops, and to be introduced to a new online digital medium. Working with two mentors at Cornell, they designed and built the Tomato Islands with virtual greenhouses, knowledge spaces for what they learned about the crop's biodiversity, cultural needs, history, biogeography, and modern production.

  3. June, 2001: 9 teens with the Cornell Cooperative Extension's 4H Youth Development Career Explorations Program spent two days learning how to work in the environment. Teams to created two exhibits on asteroid belt research, and presented their exhibits to European educators inworld and to their peers on campus.

  4. Fun? with Finite Element Modeling2004

  5. Rainforest’s Bleak Future 2004

  6. Welcome to Their World! Digestif 2009

  7. SciCentr Community (CoPs) Expert Programmers and Designers Student Designers and Writers Builders and Scientists Visitors/Players/Members • Build Community of Contributors/Participants • Multiple, Interacting Levels of Expertise • Interdisciplinary, Team-based Development • The Model: Create, Relate, Donate* • *Ben Schneiderman, University of Maryland

  8. P-16 Learning Community BOCES/ Teacher Centers/ RICs Higher Ed Institutions School Districts Team Coaches Community Organizations/ Museums Mentors Team Team Team Team Team Team Team

  9. For More Information • Margaret Corbit mdcorbit@gmail.com http://www.viewcommunity.net

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