Promoting partnerships to foster Responsible Research and Innovation for smart citizenship

projects.kmi.open.ac.uk/urban-inquiries

Equipping researchers and citizens with knowledge and tools to participate and take responsibility in the research and innovation

Responsible Research Innovation

Source: European Commission Report

Equipping researchers and citizens with knowledge and tools to participate and take responsibility in the research and innovationSource: European Commission Report

Responsible Research Innovation

Equipping researchers and citizens with knowledge and tools to participate and take responsibility in the research and innovationSource: European Commission Report

Responsible Research Innovation

RRI

Science-in-Society

Knowledge

ScientificInquiry

Skills

Technology

Responsible Research Innovation

ENGAGE RRI curriculum aims to equip students for scientific literacy: evaluate claims, weigh up science & values, argue opinions and compare solutions.

Science-in-society knowledge

Scientific inquiry skills

Big science

Values thinking

Science media

Define problems

Evaluate solutions

Construct arguments

Critique arguments

Interrogate media

Technologyimpact

Communicate ideas

The educational focus of MK:Smart is engaging students to analyse and interpret large urban data sets for developing data literacy.

Urban Data School

The aim of nQuire project is to engage young people in designing and running scientific investigations in order to raise STEM proficiency.

weSPOT aims at propagating scientific inquiry as the approach for science learning and teaching in combination with today's curricula and teaching practices through open technologies.

Brokering partnerships

SCHOOLS

UNIVERSITIES

RESEARCH CENTRES

Project’s Aimto equip students to be able to identify and describe problems or questions scientifically mediated by social and personal learning environments (PLE)

QuestionsWhat are the benefits and challenges for developing “co-inquiry” partnerships?

What are the co-inquiry tools and strategiesuseful for teachers and students?

Qualitative study – Initial pilot 5 researchers from Higher Education, 2 science teachers and a class 26 teenagers of a secondary school in the UK

Energy consumption:a shorter shower

or banish blow-dries?

SCIENCE-IN-THE-NEWS OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE

URBAN DATA

Science Communicators Science Educators Smart City Researchers

MOBILE DATACOLLECTION & DISCUSSION

CO-INQUIRY PROJECT CO-INVESTIGATORSOUTCOMES

Science TeacherLearners & Technologists

Co-inquiry community

Students Smart citizens

What are the benefits and challenges for developing “co-inquiry” partnerships?• Collaboration in authentic scenarios• Co-authorship in various publications

Students: 3 posters, 3 videos, 1 presentationResearchers: 3 papers different perspectivesTechnologists: Agile software development

What are the co-inquiry tools and strategiesuseful for teachers and students?• weSPOT Questioning: to create, comment & rate• weSPOT analytics: to observe and encourage participation• nQuire spot-it: to collect, discuss & rate data (photo)• Dilemma: to engage students in “Science-in-Society”• Data Inquiry: to improve their scientific questions• Storytelling: to increase understanding • Group Discussion: to support a student-centered teaching

References:• N Komninos, M Pallot, H Schaffers Special issue on smart cities and the

future internet in Europe. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2013• Buchem, I.; Pérez-Sanagustín, M. Personal Learning Environments in Smart

Cities: Current Approaches and Future Scenarios. eLearning Papers, 35, November 2013.

• A J. Dewey. How we think: a restatement of the relation of reflective thinking to the educative process. Heath: Boston, MA, 1933.

• Okada,A.; Serra,A; Ribeiro, S; Pinto. S. Key skills for co-learning and co-inquiry in two open platforms: a massive portal (EDUCARED) and a personal environment (weSPOT) Open Praxis, vol. 7 issue 1, 2015.

• Ratcliffe, M., & Grace, M. Science Education for Citizenship. Open University Press, 2003

• Vahey, P., Yarnall, L., Patton, C., Zalles, D., & Swan, K. Mathematizing middle school: Results from a cross-disciplinary study of data literacy. American Educators Research Association Annual Conference. April, 2006.

• Kinshuk, R. . Ubiquitous Learning Environments and Technologies. Springer, 2014

Contact: Ale Okadaale.okada@open.ac.uk

Questions

1. What are the role of technologies for co-inquiry and brokering partnerships? Any example?

2. What are the recommendations for policy makers to promote scientific digital literacy in the schoolsconsidering that students cannot use mobile and internet in their lessons?

3. Do you know any project about partnerships for innovation between Universities, Schools & Researchers/Scientists ? What would be the drivers and catalysts to broker partnerships?

Technology, Policy & Innovation

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