If you haven't seen it already, you should read over this very interesting article in the NY Times last week summarizing research on learning styles …
Asking Different Questions Increases Learning
As we look for ideas to improve our SimUText Ecology chapters, I've been digging through literature on how students learn from reading. Last week I …
The Chasm of Educational Progress
Now and again someone recommends a business book to me since I seem to have found myself running a business. Invariably, I quickly realize the author …
Tools Inhibit Creativity
I'm at the Ecological Society meeting this week, where we're doing a big introduction of our SimUText Ecology chapters. In the cracks I've been going …
Birds Gotta Fly, Fish Gotta Hop
Transitional fossils offer tangible evidence of evolution. Examples include feathered dinosaurs, tetrapod-like fish, and the pterosaur I described in …
Home Computers Increase the Digital Divide
Computing is becoming ubiquitous in education, College students need to have a computer and many K-12 schools are starting to hand them out to …
How The Gray Wolf Turned Black
My previous post concerned an apparently beneficial genetic variant, common in modern humans, that some researchers suspect we picked up via sex with …
Sex, Microcephalin, and Neanderthals
The publication last month of a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome stoked quite a bit of excitement, much of it over the question of whether …
Scientific Collaboration at Different Scales
Science is becoming more collaborative over time, and one trend in science education is to try and reflect that cultural change in the classroom. An …
