Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteGene Rummy is now available! Both the Full and Novice versions are available for purchase now! Gene Rummy is aĀ bunny-themed card game that helps teachĀ the basic principles of Mendelian inheritance. Weāve all heard the idiom: ābreeding like rabbitsā. Well, here … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has a long history of releasing policy statements on media which are both wildly alarmist and grossly inaccurate. These include their controversial claims about āFacebook Depressionā in 2011, their problematic and unrealistic recommendations on … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesA previous post complained about being shut down on several LinkedIn groups because I disagreed with the poster. This is the other article. It claims that the research described in this (one) paper is scientific verification that “gamification works”. There … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutePLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. John P. A. Ioannidis,Ā Published: August 30, 2005 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124 Interesting. There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human species on Earth at that time | IFLScience. For some time now, I’ve been wondering if it isn’t time to re-examine how we decide something is … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesInventor to Schools: āLet Kids Fail!ā | MindShift “Weāve heard the importance of failure and experimentation in learning. In this excellent interview on Science Friday, inventor James Dyson speaks about his direct experience with failures and schoolsā need to accommodate … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow to write consistently boring scientific literature Sand-Jensen – 2007 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library This is really quite wonderful. Thank you Margy MacMillan for sending it my way! Although scientists typically insist that their research is very exciting … Continue reading
Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteGender Bias Found in How Graduate Students Review Scientific Studies | Computing Education Blog. Looks like we still have a ways to go…. From Mark Guzdial’s Blog: Weāve heard stories like this before, about the implicit bias in how STEM … Continue reading