Final Workshop Program

Synchronous session I
12:00 - 2:00 Pacific time | 1:00 - 3:00 Mt time | 2:00 - 4:00 Central time | 3:00 - 5:00 Eastern time

Welcome and opening presentation

Welcoming remarks and description of workshop goals and format - Cathy Manduca, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Elluminate warmup - Karin Kirk, Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Keynote presentation: Climate Change and the American Mind (PowerPoint 17.9MB Apr3 12) - Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

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Questions and discussion to follow the presentation

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From Anthony's presentation:

• Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
  • Global Warming's Six Americas Report
  • Americans' Knowledge of Climate Change Report - 2010
  • Other publications from the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication

From the chat box:

• Brulle, et al (2012) Shifting public opinion on climate change: an empirical assessment of factors influencing concern over climate change in the U.S., 2002–2010 -survey found that "Weather extremes have no effect on aggregate public opinion."
• The Psychology of Climate Change Communication, published by the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, is a report on communicating to diverse groups.
• Fundamentals of Interpretation, by Freeman Tilden, relates and reveals how we interpret metaphors and analogies.
• Jee, et al (2010) Commentary: Analogical Thinking in Geoscience Education
• Metaphors We Live By, by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, presents research on how metaphor and analogy structure the way we think and make inferences.
• America's Climate Choices, from the National Academies Press, offers a series of reports on America's Climate Choices are all available for free download.

Group icebreaker activity

Tour of CLEAN collection - Karin Kirk

Synchronous session II - Climate Misconceptions
10:00 - 12:00 Pacific time | 11:00 - 1:00 Mt time | 12:00 - 2:00 Central time | 1:00 - 3:00 Eastern time

A Field Guide to Climate Misconceptions (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.1MB Apr4 12), Susan Buhr and Emily Kellagher, CIRES, University of Colorado

A short introduction to misconceptions followed by a series of interactive exercises for identifying and addressing misconceptions in the classroom.

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Synchronous session III - Debunking Myths

2:00 - 3:30 Pacific time | 3:00 - 4:30 Mt time | 4:00 - 5:30 Central time | 5:00 - 6:30 Eastern time

Myth Debunking (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.3MB Apr5 12), John Cook, author of the Skeptical Science website.

Dr. Cook will review the cognitive science in the Debunking Handbook, and describe a technique that can be used to debunk a myth.

Participants then work in small groups to create a response to a common climate misconception. The 'debunking' will be framed such that it can be used to increase student understanding of these misconceptions. Each group will create a web page that describes the outcome of their work. Results of this work will be shared with the group on Thursday afternoon. See the instructions for this activity.

Watch the ScreenCast (MP4 Video 144.4MB Apr10 12)

Synchronous session IV - Classroom Strategies 
10:00 - 12:00 Pacific time | 11:00 - 1:00 Mt time | 12:00 - 2:00 Central time | 1:00 - 3:00 Eastern time

Examples of classroom approaches that model effective communication. 30 minutes total time for each example, followed by 30 minutes of discussion.

Greenhouse Emissions Reduction Role-Play Exercise (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 649kB Apr5 12), Kevin Theissen, University of St. Thomas
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Stabilization Wedges Game (PowerPoint 2.8MB Apr5 12), Daniel Steinberg,Princeton University Center for Complex Materials
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Teaching Climate Science using Agnotology (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.4MB Apr5 12), Dan Bedford, Weber State University 
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Journal article
Excerpt slide (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 83kB Apr4 12)

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Books and articles

Bedford, D. 2010. Agnotology as a teaching tool: Learning climate science by studying misinformation. Journal of Geography, 109: 4, 159-165.

Hoggan, J., and R. Littlemore. 2009. Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Vancouver, Canada: Greystone Books.

Jacques, P. J., R. E. Dunlap, and M. Freeman. 2008. The organisation of denial: Conservative think tanks and environmental scepticism. Environmental Politics 17 (3): 349–385.

Manjoo, F. 2008. True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

Oreskes, N., and E. Conway. 2010. Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. New York, New York: Bloomsbury Press.

Peterson, T. C., W. M. Connolley, and J. Fleck. 2008. The myth of the 1970s global cooling scientific consensus. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 89 (9): 1325–1337. Proctor, R.N., and L. Schiebinger 2008. Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Websites

SkepticalScience: http://www.skepticalscience.com/

RealClimate: http://www.realclimate.org

Climate Denial Crock of the Week: http://climatecrocks.com/overview/

Open discussion - what teaching approaches have worked for you?

Watch the ScreenCast (MP4 Video 153.6MB Apr10 12)

Synchronous session V - Report out and preparations for weekend project

2:00 - 3:30 Pacific time | 3:00 - 4:40 Mt time | 4:00 - 5:30 Central time | 5:00 - 6:30 Eastern time

Part I - Report out of myth debunking pages (with John Cook)

Part II - Description of working group projects and instructions for working during the break.

Watch the ScreenCast (MP4 Video 158MB Apr10 12)

Synchronous session VI - Activity presentations
8:30 - 10:00 Pacific time | 9:30 - 11:00 Mt time | 10:30 - 12:00 Central time | 11:30 - 1:00 Eastern time 

Presentation of activities for all groups. Each group will have 10 minutes give a show-and-tell of their web page, which includes time for discussion and feedback from the audience.
Instructions for afternoon review.

Watch the ScreenCast (MP4 Video 127.7MB Apr10 12)

Synchronous session VII - Activity Review
1:00 - 2:00 Pacific time | 2:00 - 3:00 Mt time | 3:00 - 4:00 Central time | 4:00 - 5:00 Eastern time

Instructions for review process

• The goal of the review session is to have everyone read each others' activity and offer suggestions and feedback that can be used to strengthen the activ
• Call the number below that corresponds to your group.
• We will not be using Elluminate for these sessions. Just use the web page that contains the activity you are reviewing.
  • You are either a reviewer or a host.
    If you are a reviewer, look at the page you are reviewing. If you attended the AM session, you have already seen it. If not, you will want to look through it.
    During the afternoon call be ready to ask questions, give feedback, and help to work the page into the most useful resource it can be. 
    You will also gain insights for your own page based on what the other groups have done with theirs.
  • If you are a host, you will be showing your page to others. This is your time to ask for help in the areas that need help, and gather feedback to share with your co-authors. Make sure to keep track of the feedback you get. You can do this with the comments thread at the bottom of your page.
• After the call, reconvene with your co-authors to strategize about how to make the final changes to your page. You'll have the rest of today and tomorrow to make progress.
• After that Karin or Monica will be in touch to move your page into it's "live" version. This will happen over the next 2 weeks.