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The Sampling the Sea Project is a pilot online resource for teachers and students in grades 9–12, designed to improve learning beyond traditionally targeted cognitive dimensions such as knowledge, to include affective dimensions of learning such as attitudes, skills, intention, and efficacy, outcomes of sea food sustainability science, by means of specially designed curricula and active social media participation, with a multisource evaluation component. The chapter provides overviews of the need for ocean sustainability curricula, the Sampling the Sea Project, pedagogic foundations, the ocean science sustainability curriculum, the infrastructure/platform, the justification for and nature of social media activities within the curriculum, the evaluation approach, and summary results.
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This project was funded by a MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Innovation Grant, 2009–2010, and the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. All project members contributed extensively, including Dr. Constance Penley, Department of Film and Media Studies and Principal Investigator; Arthur Clifford, technical analyst/programmer; Betsy Youngman, lead curriculum developer; Lissa Edelman, Peggy Lubchenco, Dr. George Matsumoto (also science advisor), Rebecca Reid, and Meghan Saxer, curriculum developers; Dr. Sue Johnson, science education pedagogy advisor, Department of Education; Dr. Cathy Boggs, Carsey-Wolf Center Associate Director; Linda Dozier, CTO ePals; Ryan Fuller, Center Graduate Student Associate; Rebekah Pure, Assistant; Nicole Klanfer, UCSB Assistant Dean for Development in Arts and Humanities; and of course, the teachers and students who participated.
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Rice, R.E., Robinson, J.A., Caron, B. (2011). Sampling the Sea: Using Social Media for an Online Ocean Sustainability Curriculum. In: White, B., King, I., Tsang, P. (eds) Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20392-3_22
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