Episodes
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Episode 174: Outgroup Bucket List
January 3rd, 2024 | Season 4 | 53 mins 52 secs
This week we talk outgroup dehumanization and how we put people in buckets of us and them.
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Episode 173: The Show Before the Show
December 27th, 2023 | Season 4 | 39 mins 21 secs
In this special holiday edition, Scott and Ollie record their pointless banter before the show.
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Episode 172: Not Just Nonsense
December 20th, 2023 | Season 4 | 51 mins 31 secs
This week we talk about the research that we do when we are not talking to each other on the podcast.
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Episode 171: A Simulating Conversation
December 13th, 2023 | Season 4 | 48 mins 52 secs
In this episode, we discuss the role of computer simulations in science education.
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Episode 170: Uncomfortable Transitions
December 6th, 2023 | Season 4 | 40 mins 35 secs
This week we talk about the importance of discomfort in learning.
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Episode 169: Add It Up
November 29th, 2023 | Season 4 | 40 mins 16 secs
In this episode, we discuss the NCTM standards and teaching practices and how they compare to the NGSS standards.
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Episode 168: The Holiday Uncle Test
November 22nd, 2023 | Season 4 | 35 mins 29 secs
This week we talk about The School of Thought, in particular the new Conspiracy Test that asks people to examine their own thinking.
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Episode 167: One Query, Two Query, Red Query, Blue Query
November 15th, 2023 | Season 4 | 47 mins 54 secs
In this episode, we discuss different ethical scenarios that relate to the use of generative AI in academic situations.
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Episode 166: Fidelity Landmines
November 8th, 2023 | Season 4 | 43 mins 54 secs
This week we talk about the complexity of "scaling up," or how we try and spread innovations in practice.
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Episode 165: Fallacious Beasts and Where to Find Them
November 1st, 2023 | Season 4 | 42 mins 49 secs
In this episode, we discuss logical fallacies and how they apply to science education reform efforts.
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Episode 164: Old and Regular Practices
October 25th, 2023 | Season 4 | 43 mins 35 secs
This week we talk about the engineering practices, which were added to the science practices as part of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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Episode 163: Caught in Charlotte's Web
October 18th, 2023 | Season 4 | 47 mins 52 secs
In this episode, we attempt to do a cross-walk between Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching and the Next Generation Science Standards and Ambitious Science Teaching.
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Episode 162: Your Cultural Cookies
October 11th, 2023 | Season 4 | 44 mins 32 secs
This week we talk about how we talk about the social and political consequences of science as part of what we do in Ambitious Science Teaching classrooms.
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Episode 161: A Nobel Aspiration
October 4th, 2023 | Season 4 | 45 mins 46 secs
In this episode, we discuss who would qualify for a Nobel Prize in Education, if one existed.
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Episode 160: It Just Something Vibrating
September 27th, 2023 | Season 4 | 36 mins 5 secs
This week we return to the gapless explanation and how it can help with planning and enactment of teaching.
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Episode 159: I'm Julius Sumner Miller...
September 20th, 2023 | Season 4 | 38 mins 13 secs
In the episode, we discuss Julius Sumner Miller, Professor Wonderful.