carl pennypacker: another good year for ghou and more work and successes ahead
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GHOU: Steady Progress and
and With Some Effort, Good
futures!
Carl Pennypacker
President, GHOU Permanent Council
GHOU Conference, August 4 , 2015
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Thanks to:
1) Ms. Bonnie Thurber
Northwestern University and
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
2) Ms. Mary Anne Kadooka
Hawaii
3) Roy Gal, Institute for Astronomy
4) Institute for Astronomy Directorate,
Staff and colleauges
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Five Stories: • Billy and Chris in Atherton, Queensland Australia want to study Black Holes. Carl
finds them Cyg X-1 papers, and also gets them time on LCOGT network, with kind
help of Edward Gomez. They will probably get some of the better charaterizations
of Cyg X-1 to date.
• Matthew Casey’s students in San Francisco learning GHOU, and using
Suzanne et Michel Fayes Black Holes units!
• We have many eager workshop presenters at this conference – schedulers had to
give less time to workshops than presenters wanted
• Some of us just came from a “Revive US HOU Meeting.” Revival now in process!!
• At dinner last night, I asked Sergio if we could get ALMA images and units. He said
“Of course – that is the plan….”
• Rosa Doran trained 300 new teachers and had micro-workshops with 500 teachers
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My Hopes for the Structure of Meeting:
1) Learning how we can communicate and
be a lot more cohesive as a
collaboration!
2) How to move together more effectively
and with greater power into the Future!
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What Binds Us Together?
• Faith in Astronomy as a Transformative Education Tool!
• Our personal experience and growing evidence
That kids learn science ,math, and technology really well
With GHOU!
• Faith that Teachers want and need us
• Effectiveness and amazing things many of us have done
• Our own wonder and amazement at our system, how we positively
affect students and teachers, and the great road behind and ahead.
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Reflections on Some Heritage
• Students and Teachers need GHOU
Because just about every time we test or evaluate, we find:
- Students are more excited about science and math
compared to normal science courses
- Students are learning more (generally)
• Most Administrators, scientists and Government people
don’t understand this YET, but we must gently and slowly
covert them, and more will appreciate GHOU-- resistance is
futile!
• But we need to make an overwhelming case, and still do
things without money.
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Look at What We Can Do!
HOU US Teacher Glenn Reagan, Silicon II filter images
(C-14 GHOU Telescope in Perth, Australia)
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Some Startling Successes: • Started in United States, and Spread to
Sweden, Japan, France, Germany, and other
Early-adopter nations. With Rosa, got GTTP Landslide:
• We have run out of nations, but still need to understand
how to make GHOU stronger now in all of our nations.
• Ideas: Build base of evidence, then market GHOU!!
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We have positively impacted
millions of children and 10’s of
thousands of teachers • And:
~ 10,000- 20,000 teachers around the world
trained and using GHOU materials -> > 500,000
students a year using GHOU. (French connection
still underway – will be huge!!….)
- Developed a world leading use of technology,
data bases, teacher training, inspiration, etc.
- We are still all here in GHOU, voting with our
hearts and minds
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Some Succeses:
• GHOU is part of French National Curriculum, Teacher
training exit exams and student exit exams
• GHOU is part of Bavarian State Science Curriculum text
book
• We have developed a world leading use of technology,
data bases, teacher training, inspiration, etc
• We were using “Big Data” before Sergey Brin was out of
kindergarden, almost…. (Google Co-founder)
• We are still all here in GHOU, voting with our hearts and
minds
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Some Examples
8 Evidence of test score improvement amongst English-
Language Learners in California:
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Some Examples
8 Evidence of test score improvement Chilean Lower SES
students:
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Some Examples
Legacy Attitude Shifts/Improvements Compared to Other
Sciences:
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Reflections on What We Got: • Amazing resources – Salsa J, Stellarium, Telescope
networks, activities, teacher training workshops systems,
telecommunications and collaboration building tools, etc.
• The most amazing data in the
Universe – the Universe!
• Fantastic people dedicated to making
GHOU work in their nations and around
the world
• Support of IAU and other organizations
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Some Examples
From Rockman Report on US HOU:
Students would tend consider careers in Science and
Technology after HOU, when before HOU they would not.
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Fund Raising
• Help pay for meetings and workshops in many nations
• Give some coordination and management
• Some private foundations in US support this kind of work!
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Action: What We Might Do:
• Every six weeks or so, a GHOU leadership Zoom or Skype Meeting
• Recruit young teachers!!
∞ Try to hold workshops without anyone’s support
• Try to get some funding for workshops to build core materials
• Continually grow evidence that we are succeeding!! Student and teacher
testimonials, test scored, interviews with students, press reports…
• Pay your GHOU dues and make GHOU stronger!