{"id":1684,"date":"2011-10-13T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:40:29","slug":"oct-13-2011-thinking-and-learning-in-the-geosciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1684","title":{"rendered":"Oct 13 2011: Thinking and Learning in the Geosciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ldeo.columbia.edu\/edu\/eesj\/directors\/kastens\/kk_interests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Kim Kastens<\/a><br \/>\nDept. Earth and Environment, Columbia University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis colloquium is intended as an introduction to research on thinking<br \/>\nand learning in the Geosciences, pitched for an audience who know a<br \/>\nlot about geosciences and not so much about education research. As<br \/>\ngeoscientists, we ask our brains to make sense of an object larger than<br \/>\nthe human senses can encompass at one time, older than any time span<br \/>\nwith which humans have direct experience, which is not susceptible to<br \/>\nexperimental manipulation, whose crust at any given point has<br \/>\nexperienced superimposed chemical, physical and biological events,<br \/>\nwhere flows of matter and energy intertwine at a bewildering level of<br \/>\ncomplexity. How do we pull this off?<\/p>\n<p>The talk is organized in three concentric rings:<\/p>\n<p>The first and broadest ring situates geoscience education research amid<br \/>\nphysics education research, chemistry education research, drawing<br \/>\non the current National Research Council study on &#8220;Discipline-based<br \/>\nEducation Research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The middle ring draws from the current Synthesis of Research on<br \/>\nThinking &amp; Learning in the Geosciences project, and explores four key<br \/>\nthemes: spatial thinking in geosciences, temporal thinking in<br \/>\ngeosciences, systems thinking in geosciences, and teaching and learning<br \/>\nin the field.<\/p>\n<p>The most-tightly focused and final section of the talk will dig into<br \/>\none of my own research projects: an effort to understand how<br \/>\ngeoscientists and geoscience students integrate information from scattered outcrops to form a mental model of a geologic structure.<\/p>\n<p>Reading:<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Kastens09.pdf'>Kastens et al., 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Prof. Kim Kastens Dept. Earth and Environment, Columbia University Abstract: This colloquium is intended as an introduction to research on thinking and learning in the Geosciences, pitched for an audience who know a lot about geosciences and not so much about education research. As geoscientists, we ask our brains to make sense of an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1684\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oct 13 2011: Thinking and Learning in the Geosciences&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13240,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/13240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}