teaching the process of science melissa mccartney [email protected]
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About me• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)
About me• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)• Policy Fellowship (broadening participation)
About me
• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)• Policy Fellowship (broadening
participation)• Editorial Fellowship at Science
About me
• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)• Policy Fellowship (broadening
participation)• Editorial Fellowship at Science
About me
• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)• Policy Fellowship (broadening
participation)• Editorial Fellowship at Science
About me• PhD in Neuroscience (molecular)• Postdoc (epilepsy)• Policy Fellowship (broadening participation)• Editorial Fellowship at Science
• Project Director at AAAS focused on education projects
SitC production details
• Targeting a first year undergraduate audience
• Graduate students and postdocs do the writing in return for a byline on the website
• Teams of students have started annotating as a group exercise
• Willing to try any other ideas to make this a more valuable resource
• Shows the process of science
• We are not interested if students learn a piece of science content with SitC
• We want them to see how scientists communicate
• Many unanswered questions
• science articles are possible to read
Why primary literature?
Why is this important?
• Because everyone, scientist or not, becomes a voter
Why is this important?
• Because everyone, scientist or not, becomes a voter
A recent vote in the US Senate on whether or not climate change is a result of human activity:
Why is this important?
• Because everyone, scientist or not, becomes a voter
A recent vote in the US Senate on whether or not climate change is a result of human activity:
Yes: 50No: 49
Why is this important?
• Because everyone, scientist or not, becomes a voter
A recent vote in the US Senate on whether or not climate change is a result of human activity:
Yes: 50No: 49
Teaching students that they can go to the source to make their own conclusions on the science is invaluable
Starting to partner
Write a 100 word paragraph on what you think this research is trying to solve.
Identify 5 words that you don’t know and write a definition.
