Scientist, Artist, Fulbright Scholar

Experimenting, Reflecting, Creating

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Designing learning environments

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I'm teaching science to non-science major undergraduates. How to start? The core curriculum I came into almost 20 years ago was a lock-s...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Using twitter in lecture

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It never occurred to me to use those horrible "clickers" that publishers have been trying to sell us for the past decade. But this...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Beauty and utility: "only" subjective?

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This week I asked my students to read several posts about human evolution and tool use. I asked them to comment on the posts by listing out ...
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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Engaging undergraduates in paleohistory

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How do you get students to engage in ideas about paleohistory? As a cultural anthropology major I remember the dreaded "stones and bon...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Problem solving: technology and evolution

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Thinking about complex situations and the way we solve problems that emerge from them. It's connected to my course design for this year....
Friday, September 13, 2013

Inviting metacognition through the back door

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For my first lab of the year I threw my students a bit of a curve ball,  asking them to look below the surface of complex images, asking th...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Learning better by seeing it twice

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Going to art shows or galleries we saw that images that had been advertised got the most attention. When we visited large museums we realize...
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I communicate science to non-scientists. My interest in the intersection between art and science, which I consider to be closely related practices, is the focus of two essay collections I am working on. As a Harvard PhD I realized that the work we do in the library and laboratory, while worthy in and of itself, does not necessarily translate to normal people. Bridging that gap is my goal in my teaching practice and in these posts. I teach college sophomores at Boston University and I teach in the sustainability program at the Boston Architectural College.
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