March 2012 – Lab Out Loud

Episode 77 – Gaming for Science

March 19, 2012

https://archive.org/download/lab-out-loud/LOL077.mp3 Our guest this week is Zoran Popović. As director for the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, Zoran helped create (with David Baker and Seth Cooper) Foldit – a popular online game that teaches protein folding and ultimately allows scientists to discover protein structures through crowdsourcing and community collaboration. Zoran talks to us about Foldit and using games to help solve […]

Episodes, Season 5 biology, games, math, online resources, protein folding, science education

Episode 76 – Not Another Lab Report

March 5, 2012

https://archive.org/download/lab-out-loud/LOL076.mp3 Our guest this week is Fred Ende. As a middle-school science teacher, Fred quickly became frustrated with cookie-cutter, partial inquiry and simple scientific method lab reports that rarely engaged students in the content. Deciding to change this mode, Fred created open-ended lab experiences where students investigated their own questions, became interested in sharing their work, and ultimately improved their […]

Episodes, Season 5 lab reports, Middle School, NSTA, science education, scientific method, scientific writing, standards