Comments on: European Space Education Resource Office launched in Ireland http://www.myscience.ie/2009/11/european-space-education-resource-office-launched-in-ireland/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 04 May 2011 16:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: myscienceie http://www.myscience.ie/2009/11/european-space-education-resource-office-launched-in-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-866 myscienceie Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:37:24 +0000 http://www.myscience.ie/2009/11/european-space-education-resource-office-launched-in-ireland/#comment-866 Thanks for the comment Noel. I understand where you are coming from and your feedback is noted. What we hope the ESERO will achieve is to create opportunities for students to engage in activities like competitions, educational programmes and other outreach activities in order for them to experience a more investigative approach to science. We are still in the planning phase, so the full list of initiatives has not been agreed yet, but rest assured it will not simply consist of teaching packs that gather dust on shelves. As you may know we are an awareness body and do not directly input into the syllabus. However, we will take on board your comments as we develop the ESERO programme over the next three months and we will consider in particular how best existing ESERO teaching resources can be adapted to the Irish curriculum. Thanks for the comment Noel. I understand where you are coming from and your feedback is noted. What we hope the ESERO will achieve is to create opportunities for students to engage in activities like competitions, educational programmes and other outreach activities in order for them to experience a more investigative approach to science. We are still in the planning phase, so the full list of initiatives has not been agreed yet, but rest assured it will not simply consist of teaching packs that gather dust on shelves. As you may know we are an awareness body and do not directly input into the syllabus. However, we will take on board your comments as we develop the ESERO programme over the next three months and we will consider in particular how best existing ESERO teaching resources can be adapted to the Irish curriculum.

]]> By: Noel Cunningham http://www.myscience.ie/2009/11/european-space-education-resource-office-launched-in-ireland/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Noel Cunningham Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:52:06 +0000 http://www.myscience.ie/2009/11/european-space-education-resource-office-launched-in-ireland/#comment-747 Hello folks. Nice idea, but just out of curiousity how will this "make science more exciting to young people studying science in school"? The shelves on science resource rooms are overflowing with teaching 'packs' that never see the light of day because they have only a passing acquaintaince with the syllabus (and ususally involve copious amounts of photopying, which invariably ends in the bin). Would time and effort not be better spent going straight to the nub of the problem and putting space science (which certainly does grab the imagination of the troops) on both the junior and senior science syllabus? There is even a draft version of a new physics syllabus for leaving cert students and it still doesn't have any cosmology on it. And it wouldn't cost half a million euro. Just a thought. Noel Hello folks.
Nice idea, but just out of curiousity how will this “make science more exciting to young people studying science in school”?
The shelves on science resource rooms are overflowing with teaching ‘packs’ that never see the light of day because they have only a passing acquaintaince with the syllabus (and ususally involve copious amounts of photopying, which invariably ends in the bin).

Would time and effort not be better spent going straight to the nub of the problem and putting space science (which certainly does grab the imagination of the troops) on both the junior and senior science syllabus? There is even a draft version of a new physics syllabus for leaving cert students and it still doesn’t have any cosmology on it.

And it wouldn’t cost half a million euro.

Just a thought.

Noel

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