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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">I’m really proud to announce the launch of a site and a series of videos that I've been working on, with my colleagues Drs. Kelly O’Donnell and Dr. Lisa Brundage, for almost a year now. The project is called
Science Forward and the site is at:</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">http://cuny.is/scienceforward</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The site is designed to present a new approach to teaching science (in particular to undergraduate non-majors). We’re working on building out the resources, and would love to have comments and responses. </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Chief among those resources right now is a series of six videos (we’re hoping to produce more in the months to come, if these are well-received). The videos, like everything on the site, are licensed with a CC
BY-SA-NC license. And we definitely hope they will be useful!</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This first series is six videos on six different topics:</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">1. What is Science?</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2. Urban Ecology</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">3. Evolution</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">4. Climate Change </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">5. Artificial Intelligence</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">6. The Challenge of Food</div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In all these topics, we're using a basic framework that we call the "Science Senses": Number Sense, Data Sense and Knowledge Sense (of course there's a video about those, too!)</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The direct link to the videos page is http://macaulay.cuny.edu/eportfolios/scienceforward/videos</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The videos are meant to be used in support of science classes (or any class where science is a topic of discussion). They’re designed to be engaging and stimulating—to prompt discussion and more questions. They’re
not meant to communicate large amounts of content or to provide “coverage” of any given topic.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Please share widely!</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Joe</div>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal;">Macaulay Honors College, CUNY</span><br style="font-family: helvetica; line-height: normal;">
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