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Category Archives: Education
Evolve & Conquer: Teaching Evolution via an Engaging Multiplayer Video Game
Cross-posted from the Adami Lab website. Teaching with games has been one of the buzz topics in pedagogy lately. Although video games aren’t a formal teaching method by any means, many education scientists suggest games increase intrinsic (self-) motivation to … Continue reading
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Animal Athletes: BEACONites introduce kids to biomechanics
‘How do animals jump so high?’, ‘Why are some animals so fast?’, and ‘How do kangaroos hop?’ were just a few of the questions kids and their families had a chance to explore at the ‘Animal Athletes’ Science Saturday program … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work – Teaching Evolution: The Ladybug Game
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Rubini. Hi, my name is Joshua Rubini, and I am a graduate (master’s) student in computer science at the University of Idaho. I’m a … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Teaching Kids about Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Heather Goldsby. Initially, I was planning on chatting with all of you about my actual research into studying division of labor using digital organisms. I’m fascinated … Continue reading
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