Education/Telecon 2014-04-16

Participants: Erin Robinson; Roberta Killeen; Margaret Mooney; Kyle Nelson; Robert Downs

Agenda

New Business

• ESIP Teacher Summer Session - Kick off at ESIP Summer Meeting

• Call format
• Identify other speakers for subsequent calls
• Review draft of testbed proposal: Testbed Proposal Draft

• NSTA - Recap
• EarthCube End User Workshop Recap

Other Ideas?

• CLEAN was featured on the ESIP blog. Might be nice to reach out to Tamara to talk more about the post.

Meeting Minutes

NSTA Recap: Roberta

• Held in Boston, MA
• “Blazing success”
• 12K in attendance
• 4 share-a-thon sessions (Space weather, Ocean-Atmosphere-Climate, Earth System Science, Geology)
  • Shared science data resources with teachers
  • 95 presenters between all 4 sessions
• Submission finalized for NSTA Spring conference in Chicago, IL next April (2015)

ESIP Teacher Summer Session - Kick off at ESIP Summer Meeting - Erin

• Workshop sessions will be delivered via webinar
• Call to develop testbed proposals (Due on April 30th)
• Some feel that there is a disconnect between ESIP Education committee & Technical groups
  • Idea: Edu committee could coach presenters on making information
    • Member of ESIP community asked to present but delivers a presentation intended for a technical audience.
    • Edu committee could help ESIP community presenters to craft/recraft their content to make it more applicable for teachers to employ immediately in the classroom

• Roberta
  • Concern: Do we have enough ESIP folks that would be interested in presenting?
  • Concern: workload of refining projects (one per month?)
  • NSTA: has a new web seminar series as of last week for teachers
• Idea: Scientist-Educator team?
• Topics selected by teachers based on their needs
• Include easy activities that teachers can use in classroom
  • ESIP: Standard webinar focused on data
• Poll teachers for topics (what do they want?)
• ESIP Education committee leads webinar
• Background on topics and provide simple classroom activities that employ conceptual models

• 3 seminars, 3 ESIP community members
  • Margaret (Climate Change Education w/NASA and NOAA)
  • Bob Downs
  • 3rd?
    • Yolanda Gil (U. Southern California)
    • Dave Jones (CEO of Storm Center)
• Proposed seminar format
  • Pre-Launch: survey of needs/interests
  • Design 1.5 hour talks w/.5 hour for discussion
  • End call w/live survey
    • Effectiveness of material?
    • Did material meet their needs?
• Margaret: start with one web seminar per season instead of once per month?
• Roberta and Erin will iterate on Testbed Proposal Draft

EarthCube End User Workshop Recap

• Education advisory group being created within the EarthCube governance structure

Webinar Link: April 2014 Education Committee Telecon

Minutes respectfully submitted by Kyle Nelson, ESIP Student Fellow-Education Committee.