NCSE Evolution and Climate Education Update for 2015/05/01
Submitted by Peter Burns on Fri, 2015-05-01 18:11.
National Center for Science Education
(by NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch)
Dear friends of NCSE, A new issue of Reports of the NCSE is published. And NCSE is represented in a new MOOC on climate change denial.
RNCSE 35:3 NOW ON-LINE NCSE is pleased to announce that the latest issue of Reports of the National Center for Science Education is now available on-line. The issue -- volume 35, number 3 -- is a special book review issue, containing a round dozen reviews of books on various topics in biology. And for his regular People and Places column, Randy Moore discusses Frank White, the Arkansas governor who signed the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act, which was overturned by the 1982 decision in McLean v. Arkansas. As for the reviews, David Baum reviews Franklin M. Harold's In Search of Cell History, Daniel Fairbanks reviews Eugene E. Harris's Ancestors in Our Genome, Jonathan Marks reviews Henry Gee's The Accidental Species, Jeffrey McKee reviews Chip Walter's Last Ape Standing, Kevin Padian reviews The Tree of Life, edited by Pablo Vargas and Rafael Zadoya, Rafe Sagarin reviews Douglas J. Emlen's Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle, Pat Shipman reviews John Gurche's Shaping Humanity, Susan Spath reviews John Archibald's One Plus One Equals One, Corwin Sullivan reviews Niles Eldredge's Extinction and Evolution, Marshall D. Sundberg reviews Joseph E. Armstrong's How the Earth Turned Green, Erica Torrens reviews J. David Archibald's Aristotle's Ladder, Darwin's Tree, and Linda Wolfe reviews Marlene Zuk's Paleofantasy. All of these articles, features, and reviews are freely available in PDF form from http://reports.ncse.com. Members of NCSE will shortly be receiving in the mail the print supplement to Reports 35:3, which, in addition to summaries of the on-line material, contains news from the membership, a regular column in which NCSE staffers offer personal reports on what they've been doing to defend the teaching of evolution, a regular column interviewing NCSE's favorite people, and more besides. (Not a member? Join today!) For the table of contents for RNCSE 35:3, visit: http://reports.ncse.com/index.php/rncse/issue/current/showToc For information about joining NCSE, visit: http://ncse.com/join NCSE IN DENIAL101X A just-launched first-of-its-kind massive open online course on climate change denial, "Making Sense of Climate Science Denial," is already reaching over ten thousand people around the world -- and NCSE is represented. The course material contains interviews with researchers and activists from around the world, including NCSE's Josh Rosenau, Mark McCaffrey, and Eugenie C. Scott, as well as Ben Santer, a member of NCSE's board of directors. Writing in the Guardian (April 21, 2015), Dana Nuccitelli, one of the course instructors, explained, "The goal is for the students to come out of the course with a stronger understanding of climate science, myth debunking, and the psychology of science denial that's become so pervasive and dangerous in today's world." The coordinator of the course is John Cook, fellow at the University of Queensland's Global Change Institute Climate Communication and the creator of the popular climate-change-denial-debunking website Skeptical Science. Offered through the EdX MOOC platform, the "Making Sense of Climate Science Denial" course -- nicknamed Denial 101x -- is free and open to the public; a verified certificate of completion is $100. The course began on April 28, 2015, and lasts for seven weeks. For information about "Making Sense of Climate Science Denial," visit: https://www.edx.org/course/making-sense-climate-science-denial-uqx-denial101x For the complete videos with Rosenau, Scott, and Santer, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHMbIxfgaEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCk_3RNWdZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOrUYQhGzT8 For Nuccitelli's column in the Guardian, visit: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/apr/21/university-offering-free-online-course-to-demolish-climate-denial For Skeptical Science, visit: http://www.skepticalscience.com/ And for NCSE's resources on climate science and climate education, visit: http://ncse.com/climate WHAT'S NEW FROM THE SCIENCE LEAGUE OF AMERICA Have you been visiting NCSE's blog, The Science League of America, recently? If not, then you've missed: * Minda Berbeco heralding a possible statement on climate change education from the California PTA: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/mom-apple-pie-climate-change-0016325 * Stephanie Keep discussing the pedagogical usefulness of examples of evolution in action: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/misconception-monday-can-you-see-it-now-0016323 * Ann Reid recounting her social encounter with a climate change denier: http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/dinner-party-101-which-ann-meets-dr-skeptic-part-1-0016322 http://ncse.com/blog/2015/04/dinner-party-101-which-ann-meets-dr-skeptic-part-2-0016324 And much more besides! For The Science League of America, visit: http://ncse.com/blog Thanks for reading. And don't forget to visit NCSE's website -- http://ncse.com -- where you can always find the latest news on evolution and climate education and threats to them. -- Sincerely, Glenn Branch Deputy Director National Center for Science Education, Inc. 420 40th Street, Suite 2 Oakland, CA 94609-2509 510-601-7203 x303 fax: 510-601-7204 800-290-6006 branch@ncse.com http://ncse.com Check out NCSE's new blog, Science League of America: http://ncse.com/blog Read Reports of the NCSE on-line: http://reports.ncse.com Subscribe to NCSE's free weekly e-newsletter: http://groups.google.com/group/ncse-news NCSE is on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter: http://www.facebook.com/evolution.ncse http://www.youtube.com/NatCen4ScienceEd http://twitter.com/ncse NCSE's work is supported by its members. Join today! http://ncse.com/join
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