Inexpensive/Cheap/Low-Cost Astronomy And Quality: Between Prejudices And Reality
TalkLow-Tech Astronomy Education
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Tuesday Oct. 12, 2021
UTC: 2 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.
Friday Oct. 15, 2021
UTC: 6 a.m. - 6:15 a.m.
Beatriz Garcia (ITeDA (CNEA-CONICET-UNSAM) and National Tech. University-Mendoza)
Coauthors: Rosa M. Ros (Technical University of Catalonia), Ricardo Moreno (Colegio Retamar de Madrid,), Ederlinda Viñuales (University of Zaragoza,)
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Astronomy is the oldest scientific discipline to which Humans dedicated time in a systematic way. The knowledge grew exponentially in the last centuries and also the technological needs of the astronomers to decipher the Cosmos. But, is the knowledge and comprehension of the main concepts of the discipline also connected with the new technologies or you can teach and learn first level astronomy at a low-cost?. What really means ŇinexpensiveÓ in a world where the technology is dominant, but has no sense for the most part of the people? The idea of this session is to show how understand big discoveries with low cost resources and discuss the impact , with some examples, of educating and developing the critical thinking in the new and overloaded with technology generations.
About Beatriz Garcia
Astronomer, member of the National Council of Scientific Reaseach in Argentina (CONICET), Professor at the National Tech. University and National Uiversity of Cuyo, vice director of the Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas, member of Pierre Auger and QUBIC Collaborations, vice president on NASE Program, NOC-Argentina (2014-2021).
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