Most young people can't distinguish between a fake news story and a legitimate source, a fake Twitter account and a real one, or an advertisement or the article it's contained within. This according to a new study released by Stanford University today. According to lead author Sam Wineburg and his co-researchers, youth across a wide range of …
This Saturday, I had the pleasure of driving a group of the California Academy of Science’s teen interns to beautiful Pillar Point in Half Moon Bay to go on a marine life collection expedition. The purpose of the trip was to work with a group of teens from the environmental nonprofit Nature Bridge to refresh …
2013 photo of the staff at the California Academy of Sciences Jon Foley, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences, sent this to all of us on the staff yesterday. I couldn't be more proud to work here. Dear Academy Family, I know that for many of us the last 24 hours have been …
This has not been the most science-rich election, among many of the other things that were lacking this political season. Science Debate has been working hard to make sure try and get science and environmental issues into the political discourse, largely to no avail. Which is a tragedy, since we live in times where our …
The California Academy of Science's is a world-class science research and educational facility, that hundreds of thousands of young people every year get to experience and learn from. However there are many more who can't travel to San Francisco to check out our living specimens and meet our scientists and educators. That's why we created …
If you love Claude the albino alligator, the mascot of the California Academy of Sciences, and you own an Apple iPhone or iPad, you need these new iMessage add-on "Swamp Life." You get a set of twenty text-able cartoons of your favorite Alligator mississipiensis to entertain and annoy everyone in your SMS list. My favorite: Claude in a tutu. …
The 2015 Digital Media and Learning Conference I feared was going to be the last. With the announcement by the MacArthur Foundation in August 2015 that they were ending funding of the field of digital learning, including the DML conference, it seemed like the writing was on the wall. DML Los Angeles felt to me …
I can't love enough this picture of several of the Global Kids program directors and staff from the Online Leadership Program all together for the first time. This is from the Digital Media and Learning conference at UC Irvine that took place October 5-7. Pictured left to right: Sara Vogel, Ariam Mogos, Juan Rubio, Rik Panganiban, …
On Wednesday, I am giving a talk “87 Tips on Running A Successful Serious Game Jam,” for the Digital Media and Learning conference in Irvine, California. I was being a bit facetious in my title. But upon reflection, it was not hard to come up with 87 actual tips, based on my experience organizing game …
On Friday, the youth programs team was invited to participate in a fun outing with the public programs team from the Cal Academy. About 20 of us from both sections met up in Tiburon, California for a sunset cruise around the San Francisco Bay. It was a spectacular trip reminding me of the incredible natural …