El Proyecto AcercaCiencia - COPUCI 2013 - Trabajo Completo

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Título: El proyecto AcercaCiencia Autores: Cecilia Di Prinzio & Emma O’ Brien Institución: AcercaCiencia Correos electrónicos: ceciliadiprinzio@acercaciencia.com, emmaobrien@acercaciencia.com Palabras clave: Divulgación, Comunicación, Ciencias, Sitio web, educación. Abstract: AcercaCiencia is an educational and outreach project about Natural Sciences. The project started in August 2012 from collaboration between Argentina and Spain. It was created by a group of professionals trained in different fields as scientific research, outreach, education and music. It aims to bring closer the knowledge generated by the scientific community to society, generating motivation and interest about the mysteries of Nature. Due to the professional’s members of the project belonged to the field of science, they are aware of what would be the limitations and/or disconnections between the scientific community and society. Moreover, its solid scientific training together with their outreach and educational experience ensures the accuracy of the published material, as well as its accessibility, so as to facilitate understanding by an interested but not necessarily expert public. The educational approach of the project aims to guide young people in the construction of knowledge from reliable and meaningful sources, motivating them and showing that science is part of their everyday life. Numerous and diverse were the driving forces that triggered off its creation. On one hand, the enormous need for simple and yet rigorous scientific contents, that can give people practical knowledge in a society that relies heavily on science and technology. Scientific illiteracy is a reality that can often limit the decision making. A greater understanding of science and technology actually gives more freedom to the citizens in their daily life. On the other hand, the scarcity of Spanish websites containing educational and quality scientific outreach materials that would be both rigorous and in turn free. The project consists of a website directed towards all Ibero-America (www.acercaciencia.com), whose contents are in Spanish language and free to use, published under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, allowing its use and republication by any person under the minimum requirements of this license. In the website there are different sections where the contents are distributed in an organized and classified form and using the latest Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). So far the experience has been productive and enormously rewarding showing sustained growth over time. 1


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