Gene Rummy Released!

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. Weā€™ve all heard the idiom: ā€œbreeding like rabbitsā€. Well, here … Continue reading

Worth Sharing: New American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on ā€œVirtual Violenceā€ is, Basically, Nuts: Why Parents and Policy Makers Can Ignore It

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 ā€œFacebook Depressionā€ in 2011, their problematic and unrealistic recommendations on … Continue reading

Gamification is Scientifically Validated ā€“ Now What? | Gamification Co

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

PLOS Medicine: Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

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

A 1.8 million year old skull indicates there may have been just one human species on Earth at that time | IFLScience

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

Where I’ve Been Online (Mar. 8 2014)

Approximate Reading Time: 3 minutesInventor to Schools: ā€˜Let Kids Fail!ā€™ | MindShift “Weā€™ve 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

How to write consistently boring scientific literature – Sand-Jensen – 2007 – Oikos – Wiley Online Library

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

Gender Bias Found in How Graduate Students Review Scientific Studies | Computing Education Blog

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: Weā€™ve heard stories like this before, about the implicit bias in how STEM … Continue reading