The number of students studying science in Australia has been dropping. But what if the secret to increasing their engagement with science was getting them to teach themselves? 
That Science Podcast looks at student-created media as a science teaching tool, and asks whether it really can get students excited about science.

Image credit:
Youth Videographer Training January 2012 by Media Arts Center San Diego, CC BY-NC 2.0
https://www.flickr.com/photos/19544186@N02/6687637813

Sound credits:
School Bell by 13FPanska_Stranska_Michaela, CC0
https://freesound.org/people/13FPanska_Stranska_Michaela/sounds/378394/
Classroom_atmosphere by reinsamba, CC BY 3.0
https://freesound.org/people/reinsamba/sounds/73178/
Shanghai Reggae (DJ Side’s Alternate Take) by Karaoke Mouse, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Karaoke_Mouse/Shanghai_Reggae/04-Shanghai_Reggae_DJ_Side_RMX
While She Sleeps (Morning Edit) by The Lights Galaxia, CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/The_Lights_Galaxia/Global_EP/While_She_Sleeps_morning_edit

References:
Gauntlett, D 2011, Media Studies 2.0, and Other Battles around the Future of Media, Kindle e-book.
Gonski Institute for Education 2020, Growing Up Digital Australia: Phase 1 technical report, Gonski Institute for Education UNSW, Sydney https://www.gie.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/UNSW%20GIE%20GUD%20Phase%201%20Technical%20Report%20MAR20%20v2.pdf
Harris C, Straker L, Pollock C 2017 ‘A socioeconomic related 'digital divide' exists in how, not if, young people use computers’, PLOS ONE, Vol.12, No. 3: e0175011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0175011
Heisler J 2014, ‘The effects of student created digital media on understanding and motivation in a middle school science classroom’, Master of Science in Science Education, Montana State University, retrieved 3 May 2020, Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
Henwood B 2020 How screen-based technologies are impacting school students, media release, 16 April, University of New South Wales, retrieved 16 April 2020. https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/how-screen-based-technologies-are-impacting-school-students
Nielsen W 2015, ‘Promoting engagement in science education,’ in G Hoban, W Nielsen, A Shepherd (eds) Student-generated digital media in science education: learning, explaining and communicating content, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp.3-12
O’Neill T, Barton AC 2005 ‘Student ownership in an urban middle school science video project,’ School Science and Mathematics, Vol.105, No.6. pp.292-302
Office of the Chief Scientist 2014, Australia’s Future: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Australian Government Chief Scientist, Canberra. https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/sites/default/files/STEM_AustraliasFuture_Sept2014_Web.pdf

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