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I am a retired middle school science teacher living in Denver, Colorado. My current hobbies are singing, hiking, and xeriscape gardening. I built my own Dobsonian telescope with John Dobson in Hollywood in 1993, but I haven't used it much lately.
I am worried about the future of science education in our public schools. The public seems more mistrustful of science than ever before. I think that giving the public more tangible, visible, inspiring science achievements to think about (like the moon landings of the 60s) might reverse this strange science aversion and fear that many seem to have. We need to increase children's science involvement from early childhood on, and not just with a unit on Dinosaurs. Many elementary teachers are afraid of teaching science, and when the children get to the upper grades, quite often they have no scientific thinking skills at all. It seems like magic to them, or worse, a heretical attack on their parents' religious beliefs. They have no concept of what science is or what it does. These are my own observations and opinions, from teaching over sixteen years in the Los Angeles Unified School District. What can we do? The current narrowing of public school curricula to just math and language arts is certain not to help the dilemma that I think we face. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I run SETI@home to be a part of something big, global, cosmic. I think it was an ingenious idea, and sorry that funding has been cut. However, letting people help with other research from their own computers is an exciting extension of SETI@home's success. |
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