News & Announcements
“Digital Learning Objects for inquiry-based learning in public health” Workshop at Ioannina, 10-12 November, 2023
PAFSE researchers Dimitris Chalkidis, Georgia Iatraki, Pavlos Gaintatzis and Anastasios Mikropoulos are organizing a workshop as part of the 13th conference “Science Education and New Technologies in Education”, https://synedrio2023.enephet.gr/, Ioannina 10-12 November 2023. The workshop titled “Digital Learning Objects for inquiry-based learning in public health” offers hands-on activities with 24 interactive and dynamic Digital Learning Objects (DLOs). These DLOs encompass simulations, visualizations, concept maps, charts, timelines, and critical source reading. The DLOs are designed to delve into socio-scientific topics related ...
University of Cyprus: PAFSE pilot implementation and open schooling events
End of June 2023, all Cyprus PAFSE pilot schools have finished the PAFSE pilot implementations of educational scenarios for school year 2022-2023, which they had designed and developed, organizing open schooling events (open public events). The Cypriots’ students presented and debated three different public health socio-scientific issues, namely: (1) Childhood Obesity: Challenges and Solutions, (2) Biological, social, cultural, and economic dimensions of tobacco smoking, (3) Vaccines development and the science that responds to hesitancy. Eleven (11) successful PAFSE implementations and ...
Annual meeting of PAFSE Consortium Members in Poznań, Poland
On the 11th and 12th of September in Poznań (Poland), another extremely intensive meeting of the European Project HORIZON 2020 "Partnerships for Science Education - PAFSE" Consortium Members took place, preceded by a less official meeting of the arriving members. During two very intense days of work, each of the Workpackage Leaders presented the current state of progress of the workpackage and planned implementation of subsequent project assumptions. This time was also devoted to a lively discussion on the obtained ...
10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network “Tech4Good”
https://www.immersivelrn.org/iLRN2024 June 3 – 5, 2024 Online & in Virtual Reality June 10 – 13, 2024 Glasgow, Scotland; University of Glasgow The 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network – iLRN 2024 has as Conference theme: “Tech4Good”, a topic closely related to PAFSE. The topics of the conference include: “Learning Innovation • Ethics and Privacy • Generative AI & Machine Learning • Teaching & Learning Strategies • Inclusive Design • Ubiquitous Learning • Educational Equity • Health & ...
New versions of PAFSE educational scenarios
New versions of PAFSE educational scenarios emerged following their enactment at PAFSE schools in Greece. These new versions concern the following three scenarios: “The mathematical representation of an epidemic: the case of SIR (Susceptible, Infectious, or Recovered) modeling” “Social determinants of health during an epidemic/pandemic outbreak” “Function of vaccines, vaccine hesitancy and misinformation”. Each of the above scenarios has two new versions: one designed for junior high school students and the other for senior high school students. The new versions ...
PAFSE at the 1st High School of Agios Dimitrios (Attica, Greece) – Part 1
As part of the PAFSE project, the students of the 1st Junior High School of Agios Demetrios (Attica, Greece) implemented the educational scenario “Social determinants of health during an epidemic/pandemic outbreak”, under the guidance of their instructors, Katerina Asimakopoulou, Irini Kovaiou and Anastasios Koimas. On April 27, Ms. Christina Gogou and Mr. Charalambos Genias, psychotherapists from the Prevention and Early Intervention Unit of the Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals "KETHEA", engaged the students in relevant individual and mostly group activities. ...
