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Was "Voyage of the Mimi" Effective?

Posted: Aug 25 2009 by Kim Kastens

Today my daughter Dana and I went whale-watching on Stellwagen Bank. This area of shoal water and high marine productivity, north of Cape Cod, is where the dramatic narrative segments of the first Voyage of the Mimi were set. The Voyage of the Mimi was an early (1980's) attempt to combine video, software, and print materials to teach math and science in a manner that was both fascinating and accurate. Half of each 30 minute video was a dramatic narrative set on a research vessel, and the other 15 minutes were an expedition to a science research facility where one of the actors from the dramatic narrative met real scientists researching something germane to an issue that had arisen in this week's narrative.

Voyage of the Mimi was my personal and immediate introduction to reform ideas in science education, and was surely one of the experiences that lured me into geo-ed. More

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