#publiclab Meeting

Meeting started by btbonval at 21:42:45 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. PLOTS in Higher Education (btbonval, 21:44:38)
    1. IDEA: Wiley suggests public laboratory tools available at Libraries (btbonval, 21:45:37)
    2. Bronwen future of library is very involved. merger of makerspaces and libraries might be in the long term future? (btbonval, 21:46:46)
    3. Wiley is using PL tools in courses (Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute programme). NDVI/NIR camera to track plant growth. Balloon mapping. (btbonval, 21:48:24)
    4. IDEA: Lori : Why is citizen science seen as less valid than academic science? (btbonval, 22:00:15)
    5. general response is that the tools and jargon are less suited to the rigors that academic science requires (btbonval, 22:00:51)
    6. Wylie REACT Environmental Justice does community based air quality, affiliate on a project-by-project basis (btbonval, 22:05:17)
    7. Bronwen has seen some classes (Lori suggests from LaGuardia) go out on the water taking water samples in sewage polluted water ways (Newtown creek?) (btbonval, 22:06:24)
    8. IDEA: Curriculum development could help interface universities, but it is unclear how best to approach that. (btbonval, 22:11:05)
    9. IDEA: Wylie suggests hosting workshops for faculty and/or students to demonstrate possible curricula in an expedited way (btbonval, 22:11:47)
    10. IDEA: Ted suggests going to the National Academy of Sciences to promote ideals (btbonval, 22:14:20)
    11. IDEA: Bryan suggests interfacing with EC clubs, not just environmental clubs (ends) but also technological clubs (means) (btbonval, 22:14:59)
    12. Wylie University IP could get in the way of openness from personal innovation from an academic who signed the ownership rights contract, but arguments must be made to support community engagement without IP getting involved (btbonval, 22:17:02)
    13. IDEA: Bronwen suggests universities encouraging STEM should equally encourage literature/communication or other forms of expression. being part of a community or club encourages communication intrinsically (btbonval, 22:21:00)
    14. Bronwen's students don't have a strong investment in the school, so extracurricular and community activities don't work so well because the students wouldn't engage. the best option is integrating the good stuff right into proper programs (btbonval, 22:28:34)
    15. Bronwen finds it useful to know what grants are available, what programs exist and in what different structures they can be introduced and grown (btbonval, 22:30:38)
    16. IDEA: Bronwen would like PL to contribute to education articles to increase the clout of PL and community outreach in general to make the pitch easier to sell to academics. (btbonval, 22:33:07)
    17. Bronwen + Wylie think articles would be good in Chronicle of Higher Ed and Insight into Higher Ed (btbonval, 22:34:09)
    18. IDEA: Wylie suggests a newsletter devoted PL in the classroom, Bronwen counters that possibly just a subsection of the weekly newsletter would work. (btbonval, 22:36:00)
    19. Wylie likes that repeating experiments/projects is a good thing and should be encouraged for validating previous work and teaching repetition validation of science in general (btbonval, 22:37:44)
    20. IDEA: Wylie likes PL to have education-focused datasets that projects can build upon and refine over time (btbonval, 22:38:14)


Meeting ended at 22:40:03 UTC (full logs).

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