Including marginalized voices has already changed science for the better. Movements like feminism, disability rights, and racial justice have pushed science to ask new questions and challenge old assumptions
As someone that is a minority, other fellow minorities will bring a completely new perspective on topics and ideas.
The Sociology of Science looks at what it’s actually like to be a scientist—and it reveals a lot of challenges that don’t show up in textbooks
This make a lot of sense, but I believe that this goes with jobs or anything that's slightly productive in life. Because everything that is to benefit humidity or is going to benefit humidity.
How does science affect people’s lives and relationships?
This is very interesting because make me think how logical science and illogical relationship are.
Scientific thinking, while a type of critical thinking, specifically focuses on knowledge seeking to understand the world. It requires students to doubt information until it can be proven right, distinguishing between what is truly factual and what is mere hearsay. At its core, thinking like a scientist means approaching situations and problems through critical thinking and skepticism, objectively questioning assumptions and testing ideas to uncover truth through evidence and reasoning. This process allows for a systematic engagement with information, issues, and arguments to solve problems effectively. For example, a scientist might observe something, ask a question, research, formulate and test a hypothesis, and then present their findings for discussion and refinement.
I think this is one of the best ways of thinking because you are skeptical of everything but you are looking for evidence of why it could be true or it could be false unlike conspiracy theories that are based on just speculation. This is like a conspiracy theory mindset but with an idea of looking for evidence.
Scientific thinking, a specific form of knowledge seeking, requires intentional information gathering, including questioning, hypothesis testing, observation, pattern recognition, and inference.
This really reminds me of a book called Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World where it's all about trying to live in a scientific mindset
Many students (and professors!)
I believe that this is really important to point out because a lot of the time students don't see the effort that their professors had to put in to get to the position that they are. To express that everyone struggles especially the professors that are teaching them will help build a better connection at a fundamental level
Educators play a crucial role in cultivating a growth mindset in their classrooms, which can enhance student learning and academic resilience.
I believe if we teach our students at a young age that it's okay to mess up and it's okay to fail we could slowly but surely grow as a society because people will be a lot less stubborn where they think they're always right even though logically speaking they're wrong. If teachers help promote a growth mindset to students at a very young age it will help integrate it into themselves for the rest of their life to always want to grow and be better.
Embrace Challenges: View difficult tasks and setbacks not as indicators of a lack of ability, but as opportunities to learn and improve.
I can relate a lot to this because I like being challenged. If someone's the best at everything where they don't need to put any work in, where is any of the fun? I believe part of the enjoyment of learning is the challenge, is that you're wrong, and that you don't know everything and that is okay. This is a time for people to grow and that's why I love challenges. It helps me grow!
In high school, Maya was a standout math student who believed her success stemmed from being naturally gifted. When she entered college as an engineering major, she hit a wall in her first programming course.
This is actually very relatable to my experience of starting out College. I was told by a lot of people I was going to do well. I believed I was going to do incredible in college. Because high school was so easy, why not College? And now I'm really struggling to actually understand what I am learning. But with persistence and effort I shall get through it.
Incorporating Group Work and Social Metacognition
I like the idea of this but I can think of a lot of hiccups of people wanting to be looked upon as smart. I know for a while I was personally scared of being looked as dumb and I know a lot of my peers can relate to that. I personally still struggle with it a bit but I think I've gotten a lot better where I accept that I don't know everything I still need to learn and it's okay to be wrong. I kind of wish it was drilled into everyone's skull that it's okay to be wrong
Evaluating Learning:
I personally feel like I struggle a lot with actually learning from what I recognize. I have a tendency to think very fast so for example a math problem I've attended you to skip steps because I'm thinking way too fast and trying to get it done as fast as possible. I'm trying to learn from it and I'm going to actively try these techniques out
Monitoring Understanding:
I feel like this section is incredibly important for self reflection to show and prove that you understand any topic in life. Doing these strategies will make you more self aware about everything you're doing
Metacognitive strategies can be transferred across subjects, making students more adaptable learners.
Being a metacognition student could help in multiple different fields like socially you could approach every scenario completely differently to make friends, people you consider family, and an overall deeper connection with people. It's not just helpful inside of Academia it's helpful to get through everyday life to improve and better yourself every single day
A computer science student struggles with recursion. They pause, reflect on what’s confusing, and seek out a visual explanation and peer discussion to clarify the concept.
This helps represent how important it is to have peers look at your work. Nobody's perfect so always have some type of peer review because a new perspective could always have new insight.