Science Educator and Informal Learning Specialist; Director, International Center for Project-Based Learning (Davidson Institute, Rehovot, Israel)
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Sherman Rosenfeld
Science Educator and Informal Learning Specialist; Director, International Center for Project-Based Learning (Davidson Institute, Rehovot, Israel) |
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Bio:
Dr. Sherman Rosenfeld is an internationally-known leader in informal learning and science education. Sherman works at the Department of Science Teaching at the Weizmann Institute of Science . A biologist and educator by training, he has directed a science museum and designed educational software for many commercial companies, including Atari, Picodyne, the National Geographic Society, Wings for Learning and LOGAL Software (Riverdeep), where he received EDUCOM's highest award for exemplary educational software design.
Sherman has participated in many research and development projects. In 1982, he wrote a position paper on "Informal Learning and Computers" for the Atari Institute for Education-Actgion Research. He also directed The Agam Program for Visual Education and was project director for an innovative curriculum on plant tissue culture. For the past 6 years he has focused his energies on helping teachers cultivate student-based scientific research and project-based learning (PBL). Toward this end, he co-developed "The Golden Way," a networked environment for PBL in science and technology. This environment represents a collaboration between of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Department of Science Teaching and The Association for the Advancement of Science Education at MIGAL, in Kiryat Shmona.
Sherman was one of the conference organizers for "Art, Science and Technology of Learning in the 21st Century ," an international educational workshop and conference held in Israel in 1997 for over 40 educators from developing and developed countries, and he has been a key Israeli liaison and consultant for DesignWorlds' Education and Outreach Program for the Jewish Museum San Francisco , including the Otzma Digital Web Documentary Project . He received his B.A. in biology and his Ph.D. in Biology and Science Education from the University of California, Berkeley.