New Leaf CS Lunch talk by Tim Zimmerman on environmental education

[Tim Zimmerman]

Hi folks,

Please pass along this information (below and attached) about a talk I 
will be giving on Feb 14th at Hampshire College.

Thanks,
- Tim

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CS Wednesday Lunch Talk

February 14th in the Hampshire College Adele Simmons Hall (ASH) 
Auditorium at Noon (a light lunch will be served)

Please join us for this talk, given by a candidate for the Jonathan Lash 
Endowed Chair of Environmental Education. We will start promptly at 
noon, so please come early to serve yourself lunch.

Dr. Timothy Zimmerman, Visiting Assistant Professor of Cognition and 
Education at Hampshire College

Using environmental education design research to tackle environmental 
problems

When it comes to the environment, we mostly hear about the degradation 
of our natural world. Rarely do we hear the hopeful narratives coming 
from environmental education: people increasingly understand 
environmental problems, believe action should be taken, and adopt 
pro-environmental behaviors. My research adds to those successes through 
innovative educational design approaches. In this talk, I present my 
interdisciplinary environmental education design research trajectory, 
which leverages educational psychology, cognitive science, the learning 
sciences, and natural sciences to shift the way people think about, act 
on, and solve environmental problems. I briefly discuss my prior 
research on the effectiveness of different educational designs for 
decision-making about environmental problems. Next, I connect that work 
to my current research on “citizen science” as an environmental 
education learning tool. My research team created the Pioneer Valley 
Citizen Science Collaboratory (PVCS) that teaches citizens about local 
real-world environmental problems through data collection activities. 
Unlike most citizen science projects where non-scientists merely collect 
and submit data, PVCS foregrounds environmental education and 
backgrounds data collection by incorporating effective, research-based 
learning scaffolds and involving local community partners. Using PVCS as 
an example, I demonstrate how I integrate my research into my teaching 
to create real-world learning opportunities for undergraduate students. 
Finally, I end by presenting my vision for making Hampshire College a 
leader in environmental education. This includes an innovative 
undergraduate educational design for teaching environmental education. 
My design provides integrated theory-to-practice-to-theory experiences 
that go beyond, and challenge, the traditional model of environmental 
educator preparation. I argue this will result in a new generation of 
change-agents within environmental education who can push beyond 
traditional boundaries and achieve even greater successes in fostering 
knowledge of, and abilities to act upon, environmental problems.

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