UO Senate legislation requires that each Core Education course incorporate two of four Methods of Inquiry: critical thinking, creative thinking, written communication, and ethical reflection. This fall in Journal Club we spent most of our time on articles that helped us understand what each of these skills might look like in a science context and that provided ideas on how to incorporate them into our classes.
Week One (10/3):
Deslauriers, L., McCarty, L. S., Miller, K., Callaghan, K., & Kestin, G. (2019). Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(39), 19251-19257. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
Week Two (10/10):
Holmes, N. G., Wieman, C. E., & Bonn, D. A. (2015). Teaching critical thinking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 112(36), 11199-11204. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1505329112
Week Three (10/17):
Lazenby, K., Rupp, C. A., Brandriet, A., Mauger-Sonnek, K., & Becker, N. M. (2019). Undergraduate Chemistry Students’ Conceptualization of Models in General Chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education, 96(3), 455-468. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00813
Week Four (10/24):
DeHaan, R. L. (2009). Teaching creativity and inventive problem solving in science. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 8(3), 172-181. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.08-12-0081
Week Five (10/31):
Taylor, J. L., Smith, K. M., van Stolk, A. P., & Spiegelman, G. B. (2010). Using invention to change how students tackle problems. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 9(4), 504-512. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.10-02-0012
Week Six (11/7):
Laybourn, P. J., Brisch, E., Wallace, A. M., & Balgopal, M. M. (2019). Adapting Writing Assignments on Socioscientific Issues for Large-Enrollment Introductory Cell Biology Courses. The American Biology Teacher, 81(7), 513-519. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2019.81.7.513
Week Seven (11/14):
Dounas-Frazer, D. R., & Reinholz, D. L. (2015). Attending to lifelong learning skills through guided reflection in a physics class. American Journal of Physics, 83(10), 881-891. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.4930083
Week Eight (11/21):
Explore ethical decision making materials available from Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/), especially the Ethical Decision Making Framework.
Week Nine (11/28):
Thanksgiving break – No Journal Club meeting
Week Ten (12/5):
Coppola, B. P., Plough, I. C., & Sun, H. (2019). Purple Dragons and Yellow Toadstools a Versatile Exercise for Introducing Students to Negotiated Consensus. Science and engineering ethics, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00088-1