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Generative AI in the Geoscience Classroom
Posted: Oct 22 2025

Explore how generative AI is impacting geoscience education in this free webinar. We will highlight some emerging practices and perspectives on the use of these tools by educators, especially in guiding their students to appropriate use. The webinar will include time for participants to share and hear from each other so we can start to build a collective understanding of the current landscape.

Science for Non-Scientists
Posted: Nov 5 2013
The Science for Non-Scientists project website hosts all of the materials developed for an undergraduate course called "Science for Non-Scientists." Students enrolled in this course at the University of Wisconsin-Madison showed very significant gains in critical thinking skills, as measured by the Critical Thinking Assessment Test ( This site may be offline. ) , developed at Tennessee Tech University.
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