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Frederic Krome – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024
Science fiction literature and film are an underappreciated source for the teaching of history. Finding material that can excite a student's curiosity can be a key towards greater student engagement, especially among students who are taking history as a requirement, rather than from interest. The discovery that they can read or watch science…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods, Science Fiction
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Noel Gough – Gender and Education, 2024
This essay offers a rationale for deploying ecofeminist science fiction stories as object-oriented thought experiments in science and environmental education, with particular reference to developments in genetics and evolutionary biology, and their implications for human (and more-than-human) reproduction and kinship in the period following the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Environmental Education, Feminism, Science Fiction
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Jody N. Polleck – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2024
This study examines the experiences of 10 neurodiverse students in Amsterdam, Netherlands, who all participated within in-class youth-led book clubs that centered science fiction. Over a 6-month period, the researcher conducted pre- and post-interviews and analyzed these along with transcription data from 24 book club sessions. Findings reveal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Cultural Relevance, Science Fiction
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Rich Paul Cooper; Jonan Phillip Donaldson; Mahjabin Chowdhury; Jonathan M. Mitchell – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
"The Ballad of Proxima-B" is an educational RPG that promotes learning and collaboration. Students contribute to world-building and game mechanics, creating fictional worlds and characters, including a dystopian Earth, the planet Proxima-B, and alien races. The game incorporates constructivist, constructionist, and Dynamic Systems Model…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Game Based Learning, Role Playing, Science Fiction
Vasilije Ivanovic – ProQuest LLC, 2024
We are becoming more and more aware of the marks our human existence is leaving on our global environment: the Anthropocene as discourse of that awareness is turning into a living and lived-in reality. I argue that such discourse cannot remain the purview of the natural and social sciences alone: culture must be recognized in its pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Science Fiction, Teaching Methods, Ecology
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Gina Childers; Donna Governor; Kania Greer; Vaughan James – Research in Science Education, 2024
Science fiction conventions are places where the convergence of science fiction and science is discussed within diverse communities. Many of these science fiction conventions offer programming focused on science, often described as "science tracks," for science experts to share their experiences, expertise, scientific findings, and…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Conferences (Gatherings), Scientific Concepts, Scientific Literacy
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Moritz M. Botts – Marketing Education Review, 2024
To provide the current student generation with an innovative online learning method, podcasts with science fiction short stories are introduced to marketing education. Findings from neurology and psychology point to positive effects of storytelling for gaining knowledge and developing interpersonal skills. Science fiction stories challenge common…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Marketing, Science Fiction, Literary Genres
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Gina Childers; Rebecca Hite; Joshua Cruz; Weverton Ataide Pinheiro; Kania Greer; Samanthia Noble; Christi Whitworth – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2024
Many science fiction conventions host interactive sessions and activities related to science fiction, fantasy, and popular culture media for the public. Specialized sessions known as "science tracks" are spaces where science professionals and conference attendees discuss and question the science embedded within science fiction fandoms.…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, STEM Education, Self Concept, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Itir Toksöz – Journal of Peace Education, 2024
Given the increasing popularity of the science-fiction genre, its capacity for worldbuilding and its long-durée vision, coupled with both the difficulty of discussing issues of migration in today's world as something more than a problem of the present and the necessity to go beyond this presentism, the author argues that science-fiction films…
Descriptors: Science Fiction, Peace, Education, Migration
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Mia S. Shaw; S. R. Toliver; Tiera Tanksley – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
This article utilizes speculative and visual storytelling alongside interdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic oppression to engage in a thought experiment on how literacy studies might refuse the oppressionist logics currently undermining the possibilities of AI in literacy education. As technological advancements…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Literacy Education, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education
Editorial Projects in Education, 2024
Addressing academic integrity in the age of AI is essential to ensure honesty and student success. This Spotlight will help you learn about how educators nationwide are approaching AI in teaching and learning; review data investigating how many students are actually using AI to cheat; examine strategies teachers are using to fight AI cheating;…
Descriptors: Integrity, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching Methods, Computer Software