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<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRecently\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> reported that under 30% of Americans are science literate. You read that right \u2013 over 70% of us are science illiterate. Half of the country thinks that humans were rubbing elbows with dinosaurs. In \u201cTeaching Science So It Sticks<\/a>,\u201d Dan Berrett describes some of the efforts universities are making to increase science literacy among non-STEM majors to produce more knowledgeable citizens.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019ve ever dropped into this blog before, then the teaching methods being applied will sound familiar. The University of Oregon has changed up the names of introductory science courses, for example, \u201cIntroduction to Geology\u201d has become \u201cPeople, Rocks, & Fire.\u201d The faculty use group-work assignments and \u201cflipped\u201d classrooms. Bard College offers a winter intersession course in which the students do research in a citizen science project.\r\n\r\nBasically, faculty are making the science content more relevant and engaging for the students – that is what makes the science stick. This is exactly the kind of teaching STEM majors request when they are surveyed or interviewed about the difficulties of completing a science major. Even though they are talented in science, they still need the social context and applications of science to stay motivated in their studies and eventual careers. STEM retention initiatives focusing on pedagogy could learn a lot from these \u201clowly\u201d science literacy initiatives.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nImage: Attributed to John Scalzi, \u201cThe Image You\u2019ve Slogged through the Whole Set to See,\u201d 2007. Some rights reserved<\/a>.\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that under 30% of Americans are science literate. You read that right \u2013 over 70% of us are science illiterate. Half of the country thinks that humans were rubbing elbows with dinosaurs. In \u201cTeaching Science So It Sticks,\u201d Dan Berrett describes some of the efforts universities are making… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,91],"tags":[95,93,94],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-science-literacy","tag-bard-college","tag-chronicle-of-higher-education","tag-university-of-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5tTwG-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Boy](\"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/05\/Boy-on-dino_small.jpg\")
<\/a>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nRecently\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> reported that under 30% of Americans are science literate. You read that right \u2013 over 70% of us are science illiterate. Half of the country thinks that humans were rubbing elbows with dinosaurs. In \u201cTeaching Science So It Sticks<\/a>,\u201d Dan Berrett describes some of the efforts universities are making to increase science literacy among non-STEM majors to produce more knowledgeable citizens.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019ve ever dropped into this blog before, then the teaching methods being applied will sound familiar. The University of Oregon has changed up the names of introductory science courses, for example, \u201cIntroduction to Geology\u201d has become \u201cPeople, Rocks, & Fire.\u201d The faculty use group-work assignments and \u201cflipped\u201d classrooms. Bard College offers a winter intersession course in which the students do research in a citizen science project.\r\n\r\nBasically, faculty are making the science content more relevant and engaging for the students – that is what makes the science stick. This is exactly the kind of teaching STEM majors request when they are surveyed or interviewed about the difficulties of completing a science major. Even though they are talented in science, they still need the social context and applications of science to stay motivated in their studies and eventual careers. STEM retention initiatives focusing on pedagogy could learn a lot from these \u201clowly\u201d science literacy initiatives.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nImage: Attributed to John Scalzi, \u201cThe Image You\u2019ve Slogged through the Whole Set to See,\u201d 2007. Some rights reserved<\/a>.\r\n\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently\u00a0The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that under 30% of Americans are science literate. You read that right \u2013 over 70% of us are science illiterate. Half of the country thinks that humans were rubbing elbows with dinosaurs. In \u201cTeaching Science So It Sticks,\u201d Dan Berrett describes some of the efforts universities are making… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[92,91],"tags":[95,93,94],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy","category-science-literacy","tag-bard-college","tag-chronicle-of-higher-education","tag-university-of-oregon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5tTwG-2t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.unt.edu\/scienceretentionlibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}