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Hi folks,<br>
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Please pass along this information (below and attached) about a talk
I will be giving on Feb 14th at Hampshire College.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
- Tim<br>
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color:black">CS Wednesday Lunch Talk</span></p>
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color:black">February 14th in the Hampshire College Adele
Simmons Hall (ASH) Auditorium at Noon (a
light lunch will be served)<br>
<br>
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.</span></p>
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style="font-family:"Helvetica
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color:black">Dr. Timothy Zimmerman, Visiting Assistant Professor
of Cognition
and Education at Hampshire College</span></p>
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style="mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span
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color:black">Using environmental education design research to
tackle
environmental problems </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica
Neue"">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. </span><span
style="font-family:"Helvetica
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color:black">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.</span><span
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