review sites for potential inclusion in course?
a reading to use to extract material for a lecture?
part of course reader?? new project idea
collect whole series for consideration as part of course reader?
Steven Pinker: "The Sense of Style: Scientific Communication for the 21st Century"
Harvard College Professor, and Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University
Let's face it: most scientists are terrible communicators. Why do the world's most cerebral people find it so hard to convey their ideas? And how can we learn to do better? I suggest that answers can be found in a number of ideas from the modern sciences of mind and language. Among them are: The Tree and the Chain (how multidimensional ideas are mapped onto one-dimensional strings); The Curse of Knowledge (why it's so hard to imagine what it's like not to know something you do know); and Long Shadow of Mrs. Grundy (how to distinguish rules of proper usage that are worth keeping from those that are bogus)
The first annual Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering lecture about communicating complex scientific and technological subjects clearly and engagingly in the series: "Communicating Science and Technology in the 21st Century."
Recorded on 9/12/12
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Nuclear Science and Engineering
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See if you can find this as an article somewhere?
follow up for published reference article and for additional vocabulary for framing weekly discussion/reflection sessions
potential part of 1st course or the start of a new one?
review ideas in this with Ellen and other FN experts?
new course/workshop idea? Digital technologies and indigenous education in Yukon?
share with Michael K?
Review to develop examples for Northern Communications course?
SCOPe - scroll down for archives (ppts, pdfs)
Science in Human Contexts
MIT's student publication from Graduate progrma in Science communication
so where's the reference - kind of odd for a scientific audience?
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readings to build communication course ideas
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