A more nuanced view of Concept-driven versus Data-driven visualizations part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Previous posts distinguished between data-driven and concept-driven visualizations. This post adds a hybrid category and points out that the issue of overspecificity previously attributed to concept-driven ...

"What should be the temperature of the ocean?" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
A students' question while viewing a data visualization can be viewed through several lenses: the need for a norm in interpreting a new data type, the dynamic nature of the ocean, acceptable thresholds for ...

Seeking Kosmos part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Working on a concept map of the historical sciences, Kim stops to enjoy the coincidence that both cosmology and cosmetology come from the same Greek root: "cosmos" or "order."

Lessons Learned from Decades of GeoEd Reform part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author shares lessons learned from geoscience education reform with math educators embarking on a similar endeavor. Suggestions are:

In which I encounter a "Merchant Of Doubt" part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author contemplates Dr. William Nierenberg, who was the Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography when she received her PhD there, but is accused of being a "Merchant of Doubt" on acid rain and ...

Be Prepared part of Earth and Mind:Posts
× I just finished a three-year term as Department Head. I had high hopes and expectations that I could work for departmental development: curriculum revisions, young faculty professional development, alumni ...

Should we call on non-volunteering students? part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Author postulates that calling on non-volunteering students in class, if done carefully, can set up opportunities for the "self-explantion effect" to come into play and foster deeper, longer-lasting ...

Temporal Reasoning in Geosciences part of Earth and Mind:Posts
Temporal reasoning plays a crucial role in geology, and links geology to other historical sciences including archeology, history, cosmology and developmental psychology. Temporal reasoning draws meaning from ...

Collapsing mountains and embodied cognition part of Earth and Mind:Posts
In the Aleutians and Kenai Penninsula of Alaska, Kim observes evidence of mass wasting tearing down volcanic and tectonically-uplifted terrains, reflects on the balance between potential and kinetic energy, and ...

Term Limits part of Earth and Mind:Posts
What are the pros and cons of the semester v. quarter system for academic terms?