Participants will review the ASM fundamental Statements with an emphasis on Scientific Thinking and walk through how to use This Week in Microbiology (TWiM) episodes to illustrate basic principles of microbiology (Structure/Function, Information Flow, Evolution, Metabolism, Systems and Microbial Impact), lab techniques, and scientific thinking. The workshop hosts will walk participants through the process of podcast annotation, where students listen to TWiM episodes and work collaboratively to create an annotation that connects the topics discussed in the podcast to ASM’s 27 fundamental statements, the 6 Vision and Change categories, and the concepts they have learned in class. In addition, we will use papers presented in a podcast episode as the basis to create short figure-reading and science literacy exercises that are aligned to ASM’s curricular guidelines. Workshop participants (and their students) will be invited to contribute to an Open Education Resource as chapter-authors.
Microbiologist interested in active learning, assessment, buildling and using case studies to teach general microbiology, general biology, general genetics.
