Spring 2019

This winter in Journal Club we will focus on ideas that broaden students’ experiences outside the classroom.

Week One (4/4):

Seidel, S. B., & Tanner, K. D. (2013). “What if students revolt?”—considering student resistance: origins, options, and opportunities for investigation. CBE—Life Sciences Education12(4), 586-595.https://www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe-13-09-0190


Week Two (4/11):

Harrison, C., & Tanner, K. D. (2018). Language matters: considering microaggressions in science. CBE—Life Sciences Education17(1), fe4. https://www.lifescied.org/doi/pdf/10.1187/cbe.18-01-0011


Week Three (4/18):

Sternberger, A.L., and Wyatt, S.E. (2018). Wikipedia in the Science Classroom. CourseSourcehttps://doi.org/10.24918/cs.2018.14


Week Four (4/25):

Ramachandran, R., Sparck, E. M., & Levis-Fitzgerald, M. (2019). Investigating the Effectiveness of Using Application-Based Science Education Videos in a General Chemistry Lecture Course. Journal of Chemical Educationhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00777


Week Five (5/2):

Anderson, K. L., Kaden, U., Druckenmiller, P. S., Fowell, S., Spangler, M. A., Huettmann, F., & Ickert-Bond, S. M. (2017). Arctic science education using public museum collections from the University of Alaska Museum: an evolving and expanding landscape. Arctic Science3(3), 635-653. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/10.1139/as-2017-0010#.XJUeCxNKhbg


Week Six (5/9):

Visit to UO’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, led by Samantha Hopkins and Edward Davis


Week Seven (5/16):

Parong, J., & Mayer, R. E. (2018). Learning science in immersive virtual reality. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(6), 785-797. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0000241


Week Eight (5/23):

Hands on: Virtual reality with Dean Walton in the Price Science Commons & Research Library


Week Nine (5/30):

Coil, D. A., Ettinger, C. L., & Eisen, J. A. (2017). Gut Check: The evolution of an educational board game. PLoS biology15(4), e2001984. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001984

Review this list of games to use in the classroom: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/212891/board-games-physics-classroom


Week Ten (6/6):

Hands on: Games to teach science

Brydges, S., & Dembinski, H. E. (2019). Catalyze! Lowering the Activation Barriers to Undergraduate Students’ Success in Chemistry: A Board Game for Teaching Assistants. Journal of Chemical Educationhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00544