ELE440 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY
| Course Code: | 4100440 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 7.0 |
| Department: | Elementary Education |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. ÖZGÜL YILMAZ TÜZÜN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course aims to help PSTs know the basics of science, technology, society (STS) interaction
This course aims to help PSTs understand socioscientific issues by using informal reasoning.
Course Content
A course targets to introduce students with alternative views of science and technology through reading materials outside of education, such as sociology and history of science, to reveal the meaning of STS based science education instruction, to present the rationale of such an approach, to help students to compare STS approach in science education with traditional approaches, to create STS based lesson plans and to develop students intellectual accumulation related to science, technology and society.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course PSTs are able to
Define science, technology, and society Identify the interaction among science, technology, and society
Exemplify socioscientific issues from daily life
Identify different types of reasoning used in negotiation of socioscientific issues
Utilize argumentation skills (claim, justification, and rebuttal) in making decisions on socioscientific issues.