CHESS/iEarth Summer School – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

CHESS/iEarth joint course on “communication skills in outreach and teaching”

mglessmer — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 04:25:57 +0000

Kjersti Daae and I led the CHESS/iEarth joint course on “communication skills in outreach and teaching” in Bergen in September 2021; here is a short summary: CHESS is training the climate scientists of tomorrow, iEarth is changing teaching culture in Norwegian geosciences. Naturally, PhD students from both centres have a lot to talk about, and […]

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Co-creating learning and teaching (Bovill, 2020)

mglessmer — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 12:05:15 +0000

Maybe it was because of the contexts in which I encountered it, but I always perceived “co-creation” as an empty buzzword without any actionable substance to it. I have only really started seeing the huge potential and getting excited about it since I met Catherine Bovill. Cathy and I are colleagues in the Center for […]

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“Wonder questions” and geoscience misconceptions.

mglessmer — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 15:12:21 +0000

Recently, as part of the CHESS/iEarth Summer School, Kikki Kleiven lead a workshop on geoscience teaching. She gave a great overview over how to approach teaching and presented many engaging methods (like, for example, concept cartoons and role plays), but two things especially sparked my interest, so that I read up on them a little […]

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Metaphors of learning (after Ivar Nordmo and the article by Sfard, 1998)

mglessmer — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 09:05:52 +0000

On Thursday, I attended a workshop by Ivar Nordmo, in which he talked about two metaphors of learning: “learning as acquisition” and “learning as participation”. He referred to an article by Sfard (1998), and here is my take-away from the combination of both. When we talk about new (or new-to-us) concepts, we often describe them […]

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