Abstract
In the past few years, mass media has had more and more importance during the science learning within our informative society. Students not only have to adapt to changing learning styles but also need to deal with numerically growing socio-scientific issues. These conditions make it more and more imperative for us to search for immediate, renewable and developmental materials in order to improve science learning. Because of its interdisciplinary features, science news may just be the most accessible and prevailing medium. As previously discussed, this study plans to explore the meaning of the different dimensions of science news. We plan to do this by focusing on literatures that review science education researches and communication theories. We have also monitored and interviewed students and experts on the topic of science news (about GMO issue). These subjects consisted of 20 non-science major college students and three experts (college professors with sociology, science and journalism major separately). The results showed that there were four types of omissions among the students’ monitoring processes. Students tended to ignore the “social contexts”, “science content knowledge”, “informative sources features” and “ultimate concern” when they reasoned the meanings of socio-scientific issues. Based on the results, several pedagogical implications can be draw from this study.
| Keywords: | technical society; science news; socio-scientific issue; GMO |
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