Three Minute Learning - an online story library and interactive resource that uses proven pedagogies to improve understanding of STFC research

新的苏格兰学校课程，其重点是跨学科的学习和创造力，提供了一个很好的机会，让物理，化学和生物走出他们的筒仓，进入现代文化的心脏，他们属于。通过我们在教育新闻领域的工作--采访课程规划者和教师--这是我们不久前认识到的一个机会，激励我们开发和测试使前沿科学变得容易获得和有趣的方法。科学传播通常关注内容，高估了读者或听众通过书面和口头语言吸收内容的能力。这可能会给学习者造成很大的障碍。我们整个方法的核心是打破这些障碍的目标，利用从研究和课堂实践中获得的知识，学习和扫盲。主要的合作伙伴--真实的科学和格拉斯哥科学节--已经取得了相当大的进展，包括采访了几十名研究人员，在学校测试了这些方法，完善和发展了最初的概念，并创建了一个名为“三分钟学习”的新资源。3 ml旨在通过让用户参与各种主题的简短、可读的文本，将科学学习和扫盲提升到一个新的水平。简单的阅读活动-在下面更详细地描述-在一个有吸引力的在线学习资源中使用。本质上，3 ml是一种将科学走私到学校每一门学科的方法。拟议的项目现在计划利用这一资源作为一种工具，使学校和更广泛的社区参与尖端的物理研究。我们将创建和测试一个新的故事库的基础上采访了STFC资助的研究人员在苏格兰和欧洲核子研究中心。我们将在学校广泛开展试点。我们将测试一种新的方法，基于我们的研究，让学习者参与科学故事，即使他们对内容的先验知识很少。长期目标是雄心勃勃的，但我们相信是可以实现的。科学将不再被视为深奥的，偶尔有趣，但无法正常人。科学领域的重大思想将像现在的政治和经济一样容易被讨论。希格斯玻色子、引力波和暗物质将与莎士比亚、狄更斯、莫扎特和莫奈一起在现代文化中占据应有的位置。

The new Scottish school curriculum, with its emphasis on cross-curricular learning and creativity, offers a wonderful opportunity to get physics, chemistry and biology out of their silos and into the heart of modern culture, where they belong. Through our work in educational journalism - interviewing curriculum planners and teachers - it was an opportunity we recognised some time ago, motivating us to develop and test methods of making cutting-edge science accessible and interesting.Science communication often focuses on content and overestimates a reader's or listener's ability to absorb that content through written and spoken language. This can create high barriers for learners. At the heart of our whole approach is the aim of breaking down those barriers, using knowledge gained from research and classroom practice of what works in learning and literacy. The principal partners - Real Science and Glasgow Science Festival - have made considerable progress, including interviewing dozens of researchers, testing the methods in schools, refining and developing the initial concepts, and creating a new resource called Three Minute Learning.3ml is designed to take science learning and literacy to a new level, by engaging users with short, readable texts on a wide range of topics. Simple reading activities - described in more detail below - are employed within an appealing online learning resource. Essentially 3ml is a method of smuggling science into every subject in school. The proposed project now plans to use this resource as a vehicle to engage schools and the wider community with cutting-edge physics research. We will create and test a new library of stories based on interviews with STFC-funded researchers in Scotland and at CERN. We will pilot this extensively in schools. We will test a new method, based on our research, of engaging learners with science stories, even when they have little prior knowledge of the content.The long-term aim is ambitious but, we believe, achievable. Science will no longer be seen as esoteric, occasionally interesting but inaccessible to normal people. Big ideas in science will be discussed as readily as politics and economics are now. Higgs bosons, gravitational waves and dark matter will take their rightful place in modern culture, alongside Shakespeare, Dickens, Mozart and Monet.