Rolling your eyes at climate change education
I recently had an eye-opening experience at work at the National Museum of Natural History. A couple of colleagues and I went into the exhibit halls to ask groups of teens about what they would find...
View ArticleAnatomy Lesson
It was a typical muggy day on a tropical summer afternoon. I walk down the stairs, straight to the basement. The building’s architecture follows the Portuguese Colonial style. There is no air...
View ArticleWhy is climate change education important to our health?
“Even if climate change isn’t real [but we know it is], aren’t the benefits of cleaner air, water and land worth all the effort put towards cleaner energy, reduced resource use and all general “green”...
View ArticlePardon Me? How to Enable Successful Communication with the Hearing Impaired
Today, Sci-Ed is happy to welcome Rachel Wayne to the blog for the first of three posts to discuss hearing impairment in higher education. For more about Rachel, see the end of this post. Here are a...
View ArticleInsights into Coping with Hearing Impairment within Post-Secondary Education
Today, Sci-Ed is happy to welcome Rachel Wayne back to the blog to discuss hearing impairment in higher education for her second post (for the first post, click here). For more about Rachel, see the...
View ArticleStrategies for Hearing Impaired Students, Educators, and Colleagues and The...
Today, Sci-Ed is happy to welcome Rachel Wayne to the blog to discuss hearing impairment in higher education, and this is her third post on the topic (for the first post, click here, and her second...
View ArticleJudging science fairs: 10/10 Privilege, 0/10 Ability
Every year, I make a point of rounding up students in my department and encouraging them to volunteer one evening judging our local science fair. This year, the fair was held at the start of April, and...
View ArticleSay Hello to the Nation’s T-rex
“Anyone here doesn’t like T-rex?” No hands were raised, but the packed auditorium welcomed Jack Horner with laughter and enthusiasm. The paleontologist climbed into the Smithsonian stage, and with...
View ArticleBook Review: An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth
Commander Chris Hadfield captured the world’s imagination last year, when, from 13 March to 13 May 2013, he was the first Canadian Commander of the International Space Station. While aboard the ISS,...
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The trivialization of science education
0000-0002-8715-2896orcid.org/0000-0001-5816-9771 It’s time for universities to accept their role in scientific illiteracy. There is a growing problem with scientific illiteracy, and its close...
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Visualizing and teaching evolution through synteny
By Mike Klymkowsky orcid.org/0000-0001-5816-9771 Embracing the rationalist and empirically-based perspective of science is not easy. Modern science generates disconcerting ideas that can be difficult...
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