Teaching with Visualizations: What do your students _see_?
Wednesday, September 27, 11:45-1:15 in Buntrock 142
Cathy Manduca, Director, Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College
(co-sponsor: Hardy Chair in Science)
This conversation will begin by considering why teaching with visualizations is of interest to faculty across the disciplines - what is exciting, what are the opportunities, what are faculty trying to accomplish with visualizations? Then, using examples from the geosciences, we will explore the differences between what experts (faculty) and novices (students) see in visualizations and how these differences affect our teaching, student learning, and our choices of imagery for teaching.
Cathy Manduca is the director of the Science Education Resource Center (SERC), an NSF grant-funded office of Carleton College. The SERC works to improve undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education through projects that support educators. The office has special expertise in effective pedagogies, geoscience education, community organization, workshop leadership, digital libraries, website development and program and website evaluation. Cathy's particular interests include bringing research results on teaching and learning into broader use in the geosciences, teaching quantitative skills, and building strong geoscience departments. Her work contributes to programs of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), the Digital Library for Earth System Education and the National SMETE Digital Library. She received her Ph.D. in geology from the California Institute of Technology.
