BIOLOGY EDUCATION FOR WELL-BEING:
THE ROLE OF 21ST CENTURY SKILLS FOR INFORMED, RESPONSIBLE AND ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP
Day 1 - Monday, July 18
8:30
GATHERING
9:00
GREETINGS
Prof. Michal Zion
Faculty of Education and The energy & sustainability center
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli
Vice President for Research
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Dr. Idit Adler
Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, Constantiner School of Education
Tel Aviv University, Israel
9:30
Health Challenges in Israel
Chair: Prof. Michal Zion
Prof. Nadav Davidovitch
Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
10:10
Climate Challenges in Israel - Lessons for Israel from the World
Chair: Prof. Michal Zion
Mr. Gideon Behar
Ambassador, Special Envoy for Climate Changes and Sustainability
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
10:50
COFFEE BREAK
11:10
Competencies and Core Curriculum for 2030
Chair: Dr. Irit Sadeh
Dr. Gilmor Keshet-Maor
Director of Science and Mathematics Division
The Ministry of Education, Israel
11:50
Involving children in research on biology and health education
Chair: Dr. Irit Sadeh
12:50
LUNCH BREAK
13:40
Teaching criteria for ESD: Chances and challenges in the research area of students’ conceptions
Chair: Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah
14:40
Biodiversity Education and Conservation: Lessons from an informal Zoo learning environment.
Chair: Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah
Bioinspiration education at the zoo: An optimistic, novel, approach for conservation education
My hyena friend - Nature conservation education through personal connection at the zoo
15:30
COFFEE BREAK
16:00
Education for Well-Being - The Role of Citizen science (CS)
Chair: Dr. Reuven Babai
Citizen science – what’s beyond the buzzword?
Adapting citizen science projects to diverse educational contexts: Opportunities and Challenges
Can citizen science on urban nature promote environmental education? Insights from a school CS project on wild boars’ invasion to the city
Teacher Initiated Participatory Citizen Science: The case of Irises in the neighborhood
16:50
The potential for reconciling pedagogical tradition and innovation: the case of socioscientific argumentation
Chair: Dr. Pirchi Waxman
17:40
REFRESHMENTS
18:00
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Identifying needs and challenges
19:00
PLENUM
Summary of discussion groups
19:30
Expected ending
Prof. Graça S. Carvalho
Institute of Education, Research Centre on Child Studies University of Minho, Portugal
Prof. Jorge Groß
Department of Science Education
University of Marburg, Germany
Prof. Orit Ben Zvi Assaraf
Program of Science and Technology Education
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr. Michal Topaz
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology & The Davidson Institute of Science Education, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Maya Barzilay
Program of Science and Technology Education
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Nirit Lavie Alon
TCSS center
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Dr. Yaela Golumbic
Head of CS research
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
Osnat Atias
The Faculty of Education
University of Haifa
Keren Sarah Levy
TCSS center
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Tali Tal
Dean of the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Hilla Shefet Barkae
TCSS center
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Nirit Lavie Alon
TCSS center
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Anat Yarden
Head of the Department of Science Teaching
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Eran Zafrani
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Day 2 - Tuesday, July 19
8:30
GATHERING
9:00
VISIT TO THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT OF BIOLOGY SCHOOL LABORATORIES
Dr. Shoshy Herman and Dr. Pirchi Waxman
The National Center for Support and Development of Biology School Laboratories
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
The importance of teaching practical biology in schools to raise environmental awareness: The Wallachia Bacteria as a trigger for students' open-genetic-environmental research
10:00
GREETINGS
Prof. Zehavit Gross
Elected dean of the Faculty of Education
Bar-Ilan University
Dr. Idit Adler
Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, Constantiner School of Education
Tel Aviv University, Israel
10:20
The attitude-behavior-gap in health matters: Can a Conceptual Model Map help to narrow this gap?
Chair: Prof. Michal Zion
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schlüter
Institute of Biology Education
University of Cologne, Germany
11:20
COFFEE BREAK
11:40
Reasoning about gene-environment interplay as an important aspect of 21st century skills related to health
Prof. Dr. Marcus Hammann
Zentrum für Didaktik der Biologie
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
Chair: Dr. Reuven Babai
Health misinformation online and competencies that people need to deal with it, including science literacy
12:40
Chair: Dr. Pirchi Waxman
LUNCH BREAK
13:40
14:20
GREETINGS
Dr. Alla Keselman
Office of Engagement and Training
National Library of Medicine
US National Institutes of Health
Prof. Yossi Yovel
Tel Aviv University
Chair of the high-school scientific biology committee
The Ministry of Education, Israel
15:10
REFRESHMENTS
14:40
Biology education for well-being in high school
Chair: Dr. Pirchi Waxman
Dr. Irit Sadeh
Chief supervisor of Biology, Science and Mathematics Division
The Ministry of Education, Israel
15:30
DISCUSSION GROUPS
Formulating recommendations
16:30
PLENUM
Summary of discussion groups
17:00