Updates

Good morning NTSC 261 Bloggers

I hope everyone is well.  Nice to have some rain this AM although it makes me wonder how I will bike this AM without getting totally soaked!  Wish me luck.

A note about our efforts with technology - be patient!  The blogging will be a very useful tool for us but takes time to get all the logistics down and for me to get following everyone.  And you to follow me.  We will catch up on this today.  I also rely a lot on email, so you should get int he practice of checking you gmail accounts fairly frequently.  I wanted everyone to blog about science and sent out some questions; some people completed the assignment although several did not.  NO WORRIES - we can do that this AM.

This week will be spent looking in detail at the idea of science as practice.  Today we will explore questions related to science as practice using a questioning technique called Question Formulation Technique.  This is a new tool for me and I am both excited and nervous about using it.  Wish me luck.  We will then do a bunch of activities that build on our knowledge about science practice, read a couple of articles and do some more blogging.  It will be busy!   And fun.  This is also a new approach for me so you will have to be patient with any glitches that come up.

On Thursday we will conduct some investigations that force us to track our progress through the scientific method.  Our aim is to make it clear that science process is a strategy to answer questions (about the natural world) with a general aim to build evidence to support "stories".

See you at 11 AM.  I look forward to continuing our learning adventure.

Be well

Matt