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Feb 28, 2023
Where Do Librarians Fit in the Effort to Improve Mental Immunity?
Misinformation is an epidemic and librarians are the frontline workers.
Sep 3, 2020
Transfer of Learning in Evolution Understanding: A Challenge Not Just For Students
Researchers focused on teaching evolutionary science have taken up the charge of seeking effective ways to help students appropriately transfer the core concepts of evolution across the diversity of phenomena that evolution scientists seek to explain.
Sep 26, 2017
Unspeakable, Forbidden, Taboo: Teaching Evolution in the South with Dr. Amanda Glaze
Join Dr. Amanda Glaze in this insightful and engaging webinar as she discusses her research on teaching and learning evolution in the South and hear the insightful stories she has collected along the way.
Jul 25, 2017
Teaching Evolution Requires More Than Evidence, It Takes Empathy
It is possible for people to be highly knowledgeable and reject evolution for reasons beyond evidence. When that happens, it is important to listen in order to understand why so we can bridge those gaps.
Jun 30, 2017
[WEBINAR] Learning from Evolution About Childhood & Education: A Conversation With Peter Gray
Join Child Development expert Dr. Peter Gray, Research Professor at Boston College and a regular contributor to "Psychology Today", as he discusses evolutionary perspectives on childhood development and education.
Feb 11, 2016
Using Evolution to Teach Evolution
What does evolution suggest is the best way to teach?
Dec 28, 2015
My New Year’s Resolution: Teach Science to Promote Peace and Prosperity
how can we help ourselves to move toward a peaceful and prosperous future? One that is also more just and equitable? Teach science. That’s right. Teach science early, teach science often, and teach science well.
Nov 3, 2015
Can Teaching Evolution Help Kids Flourish In School And In Life?
If we can agree to just the basic, face-value commitments connecting the best that has been thought and known about the complexities of our universe, with the best that has been thought and known about the flourishing of our species, we can evolve a global coalition for change with a breadth and depth only imaginable today.
Apr 17, 2014
Series on Evolutionary Perspectives on Educational Research, Policy, and Practice
Humans have evolved over millions of years, yet formal education practices are of recent vintage. Given what we've learned about our brain's evolution, education practices need to evolve as well.
Feb 7, 2014
Books are Maps of Nature, Screens are Maps of Nothing
Our Stone Age brains never had or needed a way to process written symbolic language.
Apr 9, 2013
Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths
Scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin's theory of evolution.Education isn’t working well in America, despite billions of dollars and everyone’s best intentions. Not too long ago, scientists explored new solutions from an unusual source: Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Feb 21, 2013
Evolutionary Theory Can Inform the Intelligent Design of Educational Policy and Practice
How evolutionary psychology helps us teach our children better. Evolutionary developmental psychologist maintain that evolutionary psychological theory should be regarded as an overarching framework for studying the ways in which youngsters’ developing cognitive and social skills may be adaptive or maladaptive in school environments.
