Interview with Nadine Vincenten and Marnie Gelbart: Media and Education: what does pgEd have to tell us?

Abstract

Different experiences with the teaching of science and biology are always entry points for us to think about our teaching practices. They are doors that open before a scenario still permeated by a teaching based on the reproduction and memorization of the contents and that puts us the need to think alternative ways. Paths that lead us in other ways. In these wanderings, full of uncertainties, we have a meeting with media that has great potential to innovate and bring new possibilities for us teachers. What we want with this interview is just that: to socialize some experiences and experiments of the Personal Genetics Education Project (pgEd.org), linked to Harvard University School of Medicine, directed by Marnie Gelbart. Here in this interview with Marnie Gelbart (Director of Programs) and Nadine Vincenten (Science Associate) we aim to present some clues so that we can think of this teaching to come.