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The slides for each labscussion are color coded. The "gold-blue" slides represent the "introduction" slides and typically have content you can quickly brush through. | |||
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The remaining slides cycle through "red", "blue", and "green" slides. These always progress in the same order. A change in color corresponds is a visual cue that shows the labscussion is moving on to a new activity. All the slides for the same activity are of the same color. The colors keep cycling if there are more than three activities in a lesson. The section's agenda is also shown whenever there's a transition to a new activity. | |||
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=== Introductions === | === Introductions === | ||
Every slide deck begins with a title card that introduces the lesson. Followed by the lesson's agenda, learning goals, and definitions. Note that the lessons are (typically) '''not''' designed to have much time for review at the start. So, you don't have to spend time going over the learning goals and definitions in each section. They're mainly included so that you can flip back to them during class if it comes up and so that the students can reference them easily after class. | |||
{{NavCard|prev=Assembling your team|next=1.1 Introduction and When Is Science Relevant}} | {{NavCard|prev=Assembling your team|next=1.1 Introduction and When Is Science Relevant}} | ||
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Revision as of 22:56, 24 July 2023
List of Lesson Plans
- 1.1 Introduction and When Is Science Relevant
- 1.2 Shared Reality and Modeling
- 2.1 Senses and Instrumentation
- 2.2 Systematic and Statistical Uncertainty
- 3.1 Probabilistic Reasoning
- 3.2 Calibration of Credence Levels
- 4.1 Signal and Noise
- 4.2 Finding Patterns in Random Noise
- 5.1 False Positives and Negatives
- 5.2 Scientific Optimism
- 6.1 Correlation and Causation
- 6.2 Hill's Criteria
- 7.1 Causation, Blame, and Policy
- 7.2 Emergent Phenomena
- 8.1 Orders of Understanding
- 8.2 Fermi Problems
- 9.1 Heuristics
- 9.2 Biases
- 10.1 Confirmation Bias
- 10.2 Blinding
- 11.1 Pathological Science
- 11.2 When Is Science Suspect
- 12.1 Wisdom of Crowds and Herd Thinking
- 12.2 Grill the Guest
- 13.1 Denver Bullet Study
- 13.2 Deliberative Polling
- 14.1 Scenario Planning
- 14.2 Wrap Up
Anatomy of a Lesson Plan
Work in Progress
This section is currently being written or undergoing major revision.
Each lesson plan has the following components:
- Useful Links
- Readings and Assignments
- Learning Goals
- Context
- Recommended Outline
- Lesson Content
- Overflow (this section may sometimes be missing)
Useful Links
This section contains links to the prerecorded lecture videos (called "PlayPosits") that the students watch prior to discussion sections (called "labscussions"), the slides to use during labscussion, a "three column" overview of the week, and a link to the "website page". There may also be other links to handouts, videos, activities, papers, or other things relevant to the lesson.
Three Column Overview of the Week
This is a bullet point summary of everything in the PlayPosit videos, labscussion sections, and plenary session for the week. It's mainly intended for faculty to get a sense of what's being taught, but it may be helpful to others as well.
Lesson Slides
| See the section on the anatomy of labscussion slides for more info. |
A student-viewable version of the lesson slides will be linked in the syllabus after each lesson as many of the activities rely on the students being unaware of certain elements of them.
Website Page
You should generally ignore the website page link. It's kept for historical reasons.
| This website contain out of date content and may not necessarily align with the versions of the lessons presented on this wiki. The wiki is the most up to date version of the content. However, the information on the website may still be a useful reference if you want a slightly different perspective on the material. |
Readings and Assignments
This section has links to relevant readings and videos that can be assigned to students. In most cases, this also includes a supplemental lecture video presented by one or more professors that have previously taught the course. In the UC Berkeley version of the course, the students watch these videos prior to section.
Learning Goals
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Context
This section contains general information about how this lesson fits into the broader picture of the course as well as which other lessons tie into it.
Recommended Outline
This includes any steps that the instructors or students need to take prior to labscussion section as well as any wrap-up that needs to be done after. The "during class" part of this section has recommended minute-by-minute timelines so that you get through the content. Feel free to adjust this timeline to fit the needs of your section.
Lesson Content
This is the actual meat of the lesson. It has detailed explanations for each activity in the order that they're done in labscussion.
Anything in a blue box is a useful note or tip for the instructor.
Anything in an orange box is a warning or note of caution for the instructor.
Anything in a green box or written in text of this color is the answer to some question.
Overflow
This section contains activities and discussions that are not currently being used but that we want to maintain a record of regardless. Many of them were used in previous iterations of the course.
Anatomy of Labscussion Slides
The slides for each labscussion are color coded. The "gold-blue" slides represent the "introduction" slides and typically have content you can quickly brush through.
The remaining slides cycle through "red", "blue", and "green" slides. These always progress in the same order. A change in color corresponds is a visual cue that shows the labscussion is moving on to a new activity. All the slides for the same activity are of the same color. The colors keep cycling if there are more than three activities in a lesson. The section's agenda is also shown whenever there's a transition to a new activity.
Introductions
Every slide deck begins with a title card that introduces the lesson. Followed by the lesson's agenda, learning goals, and definitions. Note that the lessons are (typically) not designed to have much time for review at the start. So, you don't have to spend time going over the learning goals and definitions in each section. They're mainly included so that you can flip back to them during class if it comes up and so that the students can reference them easily after class.