For the NSF Science Learning+ program, Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) received funding for “Affinity Spaces for Informal Science Learning: Developing a Research Agenda.” With collaborators in the US and the UK, the project is developing a set of concepts, issues and questions that will guide future investigations into how participation in online affinity spaces can promote and enable new approaches to informal science learning. The project is an innovative, pioneering exploration of a neglected but urgently needed arena of informal science learning research. Continue reading
NSF AISL Projects
Affinity Spaces for STEM Report
This report is designed to be a resource for anyone interested in exploring affinity spaces and informal science learning. Our goal is to not only introduce informal science education researchers and practitioners in informal science education to current affinity space research, but also to present the many interesting research questions identified and discussed in the workshop.
AISL Challenges 2016
At the 2016 NSF AISL Principal Investigator meeting (see http://www.informalscience.org/about-caise/pi-meetings/2016-pi-meeting – free registration required) a group of media producers gathered to discuss the barriers, both real and perceived, to seeking funding from the AISL program. Comments are summarized here and the participants are listed at the end of the post. Continue reading
Richard C Hudson 