The State Board of Education has rejected a controversial Learn Everywhere application, raising serious questions about its scientific rigor and balance in teaching energy advocacy.
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#NH #CitizenPortal #NewHampshireEducation #StudentEmpowerment #ScientificLiteracy
If you haven’t already, or even if you have, go read this book and then share it with everyone. #CarlSagan #Skepticism #ScientificLiteracy
Exciting new paper by Adva Shemi, Assaf Vardi, and Anat Yarden
Bringing marine microbiome research into the classroom is an essential step toward a climate literate society
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#PlantandEnvironmentalSciences
#ScientificLiteracy
#MarineEcology
#Education
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A picture of a black hole with colorful stars around it.
Gonna put this on a pillow and leave it in my office so I can scream into it every once in a while.
#Academia #ScientificLiteracy
New report out - opportunities for oracy and scientific literacy in primary science
#science #primary #oracy #PrimaryScience #ScientificLiteracy
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With 2 Million Studies Published Yearly, Here's How to Tell Fact From Fiction
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Student teachers’ #conceptualunderstanding of #biodiversityloss in a multiple-source learning environment | Open Access
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Why Did Vaccine Skeptics End Up Misunderstanding Science? medium.com/@maybe.sandy...
It’s not stupidity. I think it’s a translation error between scientific language and everyday logic. I unpacked the gap in this essay.
#CriticalThinking #Vaccines #PublicHealth #ScientificLiteracy
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Let’s be clear:
We have nothing against organic farmers, Whole Foods, or Gwyneth Paltrow.
We do have something against lazy logic, misleading charts, and fear-mongering dressed up as science.
Learn the difference. Stay curious.
#ScientificLiteracy
All that work today to build #ScientificLiteracy and Zach hops into the chat…
"We have designed our #civilization based on #science and #technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for #disaster." - Carl #Sagan
#quote #Future #USA #Education #ScientificLiteracy
"As we enter this new mass extinction event, at some point there is going to be a global civilization response that will try to deal with it: try to cope, survive, and repair landscapes and ecosystems. The scientific method and democratic politics are going to be the crucial tools, I’d say. For them to work, we need universal justice and education because we need active and well-educated citizens who are empowered and live at adequacy."
On #scientificliteracy, #justice and #democracy...
A quote from Kim Stanley Robinson in 2014.
Do NOT conclude that you should aim to be obese in order to preserve your brain.
One more thing: beware association studies. Understand how outcomes are measured. Look at the population on which the research is based.
#ScientificLiteracy #science #medicine #integrative #aging #longevity #exercise
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Student teachers’ #conceptualunderstanding of #biodiversityloss in a multiple-source learning environment | Open Access
Heikkilä et al
1-15 | DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2024.2436110
#biodiversity #scientificliteracy #reading #teachereducation #SDG4
{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1093/jcr/ucae024| issn = 0093-5301| volume = 51| issue = 4| pages = 656–678| last1 = Allred| first1 = Nathan| last2 = Bolton| first2 = Lisa E| title = Conspiracy Beliefs and Consumption: The Role of Scientific Literacy| journal = Journal of Consumer Research| access-date = 2024-12-07| date = 2024-12-01| url = https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucae024}} "Finally, our research contributes to marketing literature and practice by investigating how scientific literacy and conspiracy beliefs affect individual, business, and societal welfare (e.g., health, sustainability). We provide evidence for the harmful role of conspiracy beliefs in consumer behavior, and we show how scientific literacy can undermine such harmful beliefs; we also test the potential effectiveness of interventions to undermine conspiracy beliefs. While prior research suggests that educational interventions are often ineffective or backfire (Scholderer and Frewer 2003; Sturgis, Brunton-Smith, and Fife-Schaw 2010), we demonstrate that interventions targeting cognitive deficits in scientific literacy can be effective. Building on an emerging body of business research (Oliver 2020), we provide guidance to managers and public policymakers on mitigating the harmful consequences of conspiracy theories. Specifically, public policy and business should adopt a multi-pronged approach that delivers focused interventions in an effective and timely manner while also working to promote scientific literacy among consumers."
Strategies to address #ConspiracyTheories #ScientificLiteracy #ScientificKnowledge undermine conspiracy beliefs #JournalOfConsumerResearch academic.oup.com/jcr/article/...
Protect the #DepartmentofEducation! Equality of opportunity, #CriticalThinking, #ScientificLiteracy, independent #SecularEducation are what made this country great. Strengthening the minds of our children will keep our democracy alive & their futures bright.
We have a lot of work to do. #scientificliteracy is a critical trait. Regardless of all beliefs, experiences, and leanings, we need all people to have a scientific worldview. We are committed to the fight for #scienceliteracy. Are you?
Press regulators need to act when scientific facts are denied#freespeech #scientificliteracy
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