Cased Based Learning Using Trade BooksStacey Kiser and Joel Hagen

“Despite growing evidence that trade books can impact the science classroom in a wide variety of positive aspects, many researchers argue that science trade books only have a place in inquiry-based classrooms.”

Warning: Professional driver on a closed course. Do not attempt.

Crowson, A. and Hopper, P. "The Use of Trade Books in Science Classrooms." NATIONAL FORUM OF TEACHER EDUCATION JOURNAL. 19. (2009): 1-5. Print.

Our natural, unexamined model for teaching is Telling (I capitalize the word to suggest anarchetypal activity). The fundamental act ofteaching is to carefully and clearly tell studentssomething they did not previously know. Knowledge is transmitted, we imagine, throughthis act of telling.

Donald Finkel, Teaching With Your Mouth Closed, Boynton/Cook, 2000.

See also:Walter Bateman, Open to Question : The Art of Teaching and Learning, Jossey-Bass 1990.

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What do I know What do I need to know

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The Case: First half hour of the first day of class

Clover

British Journal of Cancer 106, 1526-1534 (24 April 2012)

Statistics that we know• Cervical cancer is the first most frequent cancer in Peru.

Out of 9.51 million women ages 15+, 4446 a year a diagnosed, and 2098 die of the cervical cancer.

• The burden of HPV infection in the population: 68.3% of invasive cervical cancers are attributed to HPVs 16 or 18. Prevalence of HPV 16/18 in women with normal cytology is 3.8%.

• Source: Human Papillomavirus and Related Cancers, Summary Report Update, September 15, 2010, Peru

Let us compute the probability to develop cervical cancer for a person with HPV 16/18

68.3% women with cervical cancer have HPV 16/18. 3.8% women with no cancer have HPV 16/18. So, out of 1000 women with the cancer, and 1000 women with no cancer

Calculate the of getting cancer if one has the virus:

Cancer

Virus + -

+ 683 38

- 317 962

The Case of Henrietta LacksSome Bioethical Issues

• Limits and constraints on human experimentation

• Informed consent • Truthfulness toward patients and relatives• Access to health care• Social responsibilities of physicians and

biomedical researchers• Who profits from biomedical research?

Toulmin’s Scheme for Argumentation in Science

Jonathan Osborne, Arguing to Learn in Science: The Role of Collaborative, CriticalDiscourse, Science 328 (2010): 463 – 466.

Theory (Warrant) Criterion for Ethical Decision-Making

Utilitarianism Consequences (maximize pleasure, minimize pain for all involved)

Deontology Intentions (individual duties)

Justice Rights

Egoism Self-Interest

Anthony Weston, A Practical Companion to Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Arguing to Learn Bioethics (No Opinions, Please!)