{"id":77520,"date":"2021-11-17T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=77520"},"modified":"2021-11-17T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:02:33","slug":"4-unexpected-places-where-adults-can-learn-science-zarestky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/11\/17\/4-unexpected-places-where-adults-can-learn-science-zarestky\/","title":{"rendered":"4 unexpected places where adults can learn science [Zarestky]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/innotechtoday.com\/4-unexpected-places-where-adults-can-learn-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>4 unexpected places where adults can learn science<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from innotechtoday.com by Jill Zarestky<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Modern society benefits when people understand science concepts. This knowledge helps explain how cryptocurrency works, why climate change is happening, or how the coronavirus is transmitted from person to person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yet the average American spends\u00a0less than 5%\u00a0of their lifetime in classrooms learning about such topics. So, besides school, where else can people go to study and explore science?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Museums, zoos, and libraries are certainly a great start. As a\u00a0researcher of adult STEM education, I study\u00a0less conventional ways\u00a0for people of all ages to learn and\u00a0participate in science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Here are four alternative venues where the general public can enjoy nature, engage in hands-on science learning and get a behind-the-scenes look at\u00a0scientific research in action.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4 unexpected places where adults can learn science &#8212; from innotechtoday.com by Jill Zarestky Excerpt: Modern society benefits when people understand science concepts. This knowledge helps explain how cryptocurrency works, why climate change is happening, or how the coronavirus is transmitted from person to person. Yet the average American spends\u00a0less than 5%\u00a0of their lifetime in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,83,480,80,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-learning","category-science","category-society","category-stem-related","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77521,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77520\/revisions\/77521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}