The effect of activity-based nanoscience and nanotechnology education on pre-service science teachers’ conceptual understanding

Nano Revolution: “Tiny tech, big impact: How nanotechnology is driving SDGs progress"

“…It can also be integrated into new medical training technologies, providing students a more realistic and hands-on experience. Nanotechnology can also be used to promote science, Technology, Engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education [ [153] , [154] , [155] , [156] , [157] , [158] ] by providing interactive and engaging learning experiences for students using nanoscale models and simulations.…”

Nanobilim ve Nanoteknolojinin TÜBİTAK Popüler Bilim Dergilerine Yansımaları

“…Medya bilimsel araştırma ve geliştirmeye odaklanır ve bilim insanları nanoteknolojideki gelişmeleri tanıtmaya çalıştıkça, medya bu kapsamda olumlu tarafta kalır (Metag ve Marcinkowski, 2014). Bu duruma paralel olarak farklı yaş ve eğitim düzeyinden katılımcılarla yapılan çalışmalarda, NBT'nin faydalarının risklerinden daha fazla olduğu yönündeki algı ve görüşler (Cobb ve Macoubrie, 2004;Ekli, 2010;Farshchi, Sadrnezhaad, Nejad, Mahmoodi ve İbrahimi Ghavam Abadi 2011;Kahan, Slovic, Braman, Gastil ve Cohenvd, 2007;Macoubrie, 2006;Şenel Zor ve Aslan, 2018;Senocak, 2014) dergilerdeki nanoteknoloji makalelerinin olumlu yaklaşımı ile ilişkilendirilebilir. Bu durumun bir sonucu olarak, Scheufele ve Lewenstein (2005) tarafından ifade edildiği gibi medya kaynaklarının bilim ve iş dünyasındaki yeni teknolojilerin toplumda daha olumlu bir yönde şekillenmesini sağlayan bir rol üstlendiği söylenebilir.…”

Teaching Nanotechnology through Research Proposals

“…Nanotechnology, with its multidisciplinary character, has experienced a rise in the past few decades and has had a significant influence on almost all fields of science and technology, − including chemistry . This was also recognized in 2016 when the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Stoddart, Sauvage, and Feringa for their remarkable work on nanomachines. , As the relevance of nanotechnology in society grew more and more obvious, its importance in education became more evident too. ,− This has been recognized at all levels of education, namely, primary, secondary, ,− and tertiary (higher) education. ,− Most contributions regarding nanotechnology in higher education, however, deal with the importance of teaching nanotechnology, , the content taught within nanotechnology courses ,,, or laboratory experiments found useful to illustrate important concepts in nanotechnology in the lab. − However, there are only several published contributions on the activities in the nanotechnology classroom ,,,,,,, at any level as most contributions focus on wh...…”

“…24,35−46 Most contributions regarding nanotechnology in higher education, however, deal with the importance of teaching nanotechnology, 22,36 the content taught within nanotechnology courses 37,38,42,46 or laboratory experiments found useful to illustrate important concepts in nanotechnology in the lab. 47−62 However, there are only several published contributions on the activities in the nanotechnology classroom 17,19,24,28,30,41,44,45 at any level as most contributions focus on what they teach [31][32][33]37,38,40,42,46 and not on how they teach it. At the Inholland University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, we have been running an undergraduate course on nanotechnology for chemistry majors for six years now.…”