ESERA

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 * "A Digital Toolbox for Blended Learning Environments" **

Although Finland and Australia score relatively highly in the PISA Science tests, students from both countries have expressed a low interest in science as a career option. This data is confirmed by declining enrollments in science courses at tertiary institutions in Australia. One solution has been trialled at a Victorian school over the past five years - offering VCE Environmental Science as a blended course, incorporating the use of digital tools to engage students. This strategy also gives a greater number of students the opportunity to study this course as an online option, when their own school is unable to offer the subject. This ICT workshop will demonstrate some of the digital tools that have been used successfully to engage science learners in both online and face-to-face learning environments. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss the factors that contribute to successful online learning and identify the factors that support blended learning approaches.

__**My Program**__
at Heureka - the Finnish Science Centre @http://www.esera2015.org/pre-conference-workshops/authenticity/ ||
 * **Monday 31st August** ||  ||
 * **9.00am - 12 noon** || Pre-conference workshop "Keeping it real - Authenticity in Science Centres and Museums"
 * **2.00 - 2.30pm** || Opening Ceremony ||
 * **2.30 - 3.30pm** || Keynote 1: Knowledge to know, knowledge to use, knowledge to teach and learn - who defines the bodies of knowledge for education (Ilka Parchmann and Marianne Achiam) ||
 * **4.00 - 6.00pm** || Paper Session 1 ||
 * **7.30 - 9.00pm** || Welcome Reception at Helsinki City Hall. ||
 * **Tuesday 1st September** ||  ||
 * **9.00 - 11.00am** || Symposia 1 (8) New Perspectives for raising the relevance of science education (Ingo Eilks)
 * Science education and the promotion of critical media literacy - beyond the news media
 * Relevant assessment for the 21st century: reliability of the assessment of innovation competence in biology and mathematics
 * Science education for sustainability: teaching for critical awareness concerning the chemical oppression of our everyday life
 * Making science curricula in academic-type high schools more appropriate for students' future careers ||
 * **11.30 - 1.30pm** || Paper session 2 (13) Science and Culture (Allan Feldman)
 * Contemporary scientists discuss the need for openness in science and society
 * A search space model for the teaching of evolution
 * Toward a balanced view of scientists between West and Middle East
 * Western pre-service teachers' experiences of teaching science in a non-Western setting

Paper session 2 (14) Scientific Literacy (Allyson Macdonald)
 * Choosing novels to promote scientific literacy at secondary schools
 * Improving science literacy through interdisciplinary collaboration using media reported in science
 * Sustainability and science education: modes of pedagogic practice ||
 * **2.30 - 3.30pm** || Keynote 2: Expanding the scope of science education: An activity-theoretical perspective (Yrjo Engestrom) ||
 * **Wednesday 2nd September** ||  ||
 * **9.00 - 11.00am** || Digital Toolbox for Blended Learning Environments - Room 213 ||
 * **Thursday 3rd September** ||  ||
 * **Friday 4th September** ||  ||
 * **Thursday 3rd September** ||  ||
 * **Friday 4th September** ||  ||
 * **Friday 4th September** ||  ||