Herodotou ECSA2018 cit_inquiry
- 1. Tools and approaches from the Citizen Inquiry group Second International ECSA Conference 2018 3–5 June 2018 | Geneva, Switzerland Empowering citizens to participate in scientific endeavours: Dr Christothea Herodotou
- 3. Vision… The vision of the Citizen Inquiry group is to educate citizens in scientific thinking and empower them in initiating or joining citizen science projects across disciplines both social and natural sciences. Citizen inquiry researchers have designed and evaluated a set of web- based and mobile tools to scaffold learning, participation, and communication between citizens. Appropriate tools and supportive online communities can enable citizens to practice and develop scientific thinking skills while also democratise research by allowing the public to contribute to all the stages of the scientific research.
- 4. • Citizen science platform for biodiversity • Post an observation, upload a photo and the community help give an identification • Anyone can record and learn about wildlife; helping each others while building ID skills • Growing online community of over 66,000; with both experts and novices iSpotnature.org
- 5. Citizen science & learning model • Biological data recording from citizen scientists • A learning approach embedded through an inquiry process (iSpot projects – personalised filters) • Supportive technology mediating citizen science learning (iSpot quizzes – self assessment) A learning design framed by a five- step model: from exploring nature through to recognised learning actions* * Ansine, J., Dodd, M., Robinson, D., McAndrew, P., (2017) Exploring citizen science and inquiry learning through iSpotnature.org. Chapter 6 in Herodotou, C., Sharples, M., Scanlon, E. (eds) Citizen Inquiry: Synthesising citizen science and inquiry learning. Routledge. iSpot Project filter and iSpot quizzes Contact: [email protected] iSpotnature.org
- 6. Situ8 is a tool to let you annotate physical places with digital information • View, create and share Media Objects (“Mo”s) • Filter by date, author, subject and/or tag • Use for formal or informal learning, citizen science and collection of fieldwork data Situ8
- 7. Try it for yourself! www.situ8.org • Gain different perspectives on how others view our world • Potential for use with leisure learning e.g. gardening, tourism and other informal practices, supporting routes into open education [email protected] @situ8_orgSitu8
- 8. beewatch.abdn.ac.uk • Encourages participation in all activities • Everyone participates in species identification using a key • Bayesian Inference Models estimates likelihood of consensus identification, and utilises input from all participants, by modelling their biases • Creates opportunities for learning • About bumblebees, habitats, biological identification Consensus Model Identification Key BeeWatch
- 9. Contact: Advaith Siddharthan (OU) Rene van der Wall (U. Aberdeen) • Formative feedback using Natural Language Generation Technology • to facilitate engagement and learning • Provides pollinator-friendly gardening advice from citizen science data to facilitate civic action through learning BeeWatch
- 11. 1 1 Win-it missions text-based missions, set challenges with prizes for the winners. Sense-it missions make use of the Sense-it mobile app to collect and share data using smartphone sensors. Spot-it missions allow users to capture images and spot things around them. Social features: comments, forums, SNS nquire-it.org nQuire
- 12. 1 2 • Available in Google play • Linked to nQuire-it platform • Sense-it missions
- 14. nQuire as an enabling technology for the creation of diverse citizen science projects by both citizens and researchers. Contact: [email protected]. @herodotouc
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Editor's Notes
- #2: Present the work of the citizen inquiry group, a research group at the open university UK, in particular 3 technologies to support learning and participation in cs projects
- #3: 12 Enthusiastic individuals interested in cs across the open university – visit our wepage to find out more about each of them
- #4: What is our vision as a group and what underlines the design of the technologies I am presenting today…
- #11: 'nQuire-it' platform and accompanying mobile applications (Sense-it and Spot-it) supporting the creation of citizen science projects and the process of data collection; 'nQuire' supporting mass citizen science experiments in collaboration with the BBC Tomorrow's world initiative;
- #14: Tomorrow’s World initiative by BBC nQuire project by the Open university Tomorrow’s world nQuire Citizen science to educate general public Mass scale social science experiments
- #15: Future months…merge the 2 platforms to create a powerful piece of enabling technology – a toolkit where citizens will pick the tools they need to create the project they are interested in or is meaningful to them.