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强调跨学科学习和创造力，为物理、化学和生物走出各自的孤岛，进入现代文化的核心提供了一个绝佳的机会，这是它们所属的地方。通过我们在教育新闻领域的工作——采访课程规划人员和教师——我们在不久前就认识到这是一个机会，激励我们开发和测试使尖端科学变得容易理解和有趣的方法。科学传播往往侧重于内容，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目标是打破这些障碍，利用从研究和课堂实践中获得的知识来学习和扫盲。主要合作伙伴——“真实科学”和格拉斯哥科学节——已经取得了相当大的进展，包括采访了数十名研究人员，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。3ml旨在将科学学习和读写能力提升到一个新的水平，通过让用户参与到广泛主题的简短、可读的文本中。简单的阅读活动——下文将更详细地描述——在一个吸引人的在线学习资源中使用。从本质上讲，3ml是一种将科学走私到学校每一门学科的方法。拟议中的项目现在计划利用这一资源作为一种工具，让学校和更广泛的社区参与到前沿物理研究中来。我们将根据对stfc资助的苏格兰和欧洲核子研究中心的研究人员的采访，创建并测试一个新的故事库。我们将在学校广泛试点。根据我们的研究，我们将测试一种新的方法，让学习者参与科学故事，即使他们对内容知之甚少。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难懂，偶尔有趣但普通人无法理解的东西。科学领域的重大思想将会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、莫扎特和莫奈一样，在现代文化中占据应有的地位。

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.