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Using Science fiction to teach science – Researchers explore the human brain through Star Trek
Released 3/31/1998 from Vanderbilt University – Jamie Lawson Reeves
Randolph Blake, Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, and Robert Sekuler, psychologist at Brandeis University and Blake’s former colleague, wrote “Star Trek On the Brain: Alien Minds, Human Minds”.
Summary of Five Science Fiction Movies that get the Science Right
By Michael Marshall 09 May 2008 of Newscientist.com
A majority of Hollywood science is incredible false, however some films get most of the science right. The author mentions five films that they believe does this: 2001:A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Alien, Gattaca, and Solaris.
Teaching Science Fiction by James Gunn of the Center for The Study of Science Fiction
Majority of this article is about the author and his experiences in teaching science fiction (SF). He says that SF is not an ordinary and easy to define genre. He says SF “has no identifying action or place” but it can include social and physical sciences as long as morality and many other subjects.
When he teaches SF he thinks of three different ways to approach it. One way he calls “the great books course” focuses on great novels. He also mentions “the ideas in SF” course and a historical look at SF. He likes to focus on the historical context so students can “place their SF reading in better context and continue their later reading with greater understanding.”
He also mentions at how discussions and projects in class can engage a student’s interest. In fact he gives an example of an experience he has had while teaching:
“After my first or second class, I got a telephone call from a student who asked when I’d teach the class again. His roommate, he said, had done a project for my class, and it sounded so fascination that he wanted to do one. I suggested that he didn’t have to take my class to do a project.”
Summary of Sci-Fi Blurring Science Fact with Fiction by Darren Osborne from News in Science (ABC Science) 15 August 2011
A surprising amount of Australians believe in fictional science as being real. These findings were taken by a survey of 1250 people called “Fact or Fiction” and administered by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO). The survey was done to asses the ability of Australians to compare what is “happening in the ‘real world’” and what is portrayed in science fiction (SF).
Science fiction to the rescue of teaching? Feb 15 1998. My citations are written down in my dorm, where I am not. So for the time being just know that this came from physicsworld.com
Due to books about the science in science fiction (SF) such as The Physics of Star Trek lectures and teachers are considering using movies as a way to teach science. Leroy Dubeck from Temple University and the author of several books gave a lecture at the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science about the possible teaching aid.
Finding the Science Behind Science Fiction Through Paired Readings
Lesson plan From www.readwritethink.org
Written by Lisa Storm Fink and Published by the National Council of Teachers of English
Overview
Through this lesson plan the author says that the students will lean about science in science fiction (SF) while exploring the genre and by researching nonfiction resources. The students will look for facts that supports or disputes the science in the plot of the book.
Summary of several chapters from Taking Science To The People: A Communication Primer for Scientists and Engineers Edited by Carolyn Johnsen.
Copyright 2010 by the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
I will include the address of the article later. My full list of citations was left in my dorm over Thanksgiving break so I will edit this when I go back.
“L’Engle’s Fiction Inspired Real Science” from National Public Radio’s Science Out of The Box hosted by Jacki Lyden with special guest astronaut Dr.Janice Voss on September 8, 2007. This interview was conducted the day after Madeleine L’Engle’s death.
This is a summary over the book Science in Cinema: Teaching Science Fact Through Science Fiction Films by Leroy W. Dubeck, Suzanne E. Moshier, and Judith E. Boss. Copyright 1988 by Teachers College, Columbia University and published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Ave., New York NY, 10027.