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Both the geosciences and the social & behavioral sciences took a hit in the latest research policy bill from the US House. Geocognition research sits smack in the middle of those two research areas – good thing I recently received word of funding on two small-ish grants. The bills take on how NSF peer reviewsContinue reading “Geosciences and Social & Behavioral Sciences Take a Hit in Funding Bill”

2015 MSU Fate of the Earth Symposium speaker, Sunshine Menezes: TIPPING THE SCALES TOWARD EFFECTIVE SCIENCE COMMUNICATION https://youtu.be/VEn3E6BNSGo

Why is Earth System Science so irrelevant in our academic landscape? Academics, funding agencies, the government, politicians, teachers – society generally agrees that science is important. Good people can argue about specific ideas, but the last two centuries of medical, technological, and engineering advancement  – society’s movement from a world of subsistence to a worldContinue reading “Bring the Earth inside!”

As the Next Generation Science Standards move into broader use, many pre-service teacher training programs, as well as programs geared towards teacher professional development, are rethinking how and what they teach. Unfortunately, this rethinking will do little to address a serious issue facing the United States: the lack of qualified Earth Science teachers. Although physics,Continue reading “The need to train Earth Science teachers”

Discipline-based education research, or DBER, has received a lot of attention lately. In 2012, the National Research Council published a report on DBER. The report suggests that DBER is both broadly focused on a wide array of sciences (“physics, biological sciences, geosciences, and chemistry”) and narrowly focused on undergraduate settings. Other disciplines, although not discussedContinue reading “On DBER”