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Maria Baker Academic Squabble This is my talk. I like to start - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Maria Baker Academic Squabble This is my talk. I like to start - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Maria Baker Academic Squabble This is my talk. I like to start with a joke. Why are goose terrible drivers? Because they honk all the time. Today Im going to talk about Academic Squabble Academic Squabble is a card game Academic Squabble
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I like to start with a joke.
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Why are goose terrible drivers?
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Because they honk all the time.
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Today I’m going to talk about Academic Squabble
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Academic Squabble is a card game
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Academic Squabble teaches about science
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About Nobel Prizes and citations and paradigm shifts
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Kids need to learn about science so they can be better grown-ups when they grow up
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We need to learn about scientists because scientists made many things we now use
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And the scientists were really great because they helped the world
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If a kid wants to become a scientist they need to know what it’s like to be a scientist
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Scientists like to argue
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And that’s true. Scientists do like to argue!
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Scientists read other scientists’ papers and sometimes they talk about them, that’s called a citation
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Sometimes they get really jealous
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A paradigm is how scientists think about their fields
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In a paradigm shift, Nobel Prizes don’t count anymore
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Here’s the game
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First you shuffle the cards up
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Which I cannot do because I don’t know how to shuffle
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Then you deal the cards in piles of 8
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Because that’s fair. Each player gets 8.
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You look at the cards and pick a card to play
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Let’s say I pick Art Graesser and Chico picks Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk
3k
Invented polio vaccine
TEAM BIOMED
Arthur Graesser
Invented AutoTutor Studied discourse comprehension
TEAM CS PSYCHOLOGY
14k
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There’s no nobel prizes so the one with more citations is the winner. And the one with more citations is Art
- Graesser. So I win!
Jonas Salk
3k
Invented polio vaccine
TEAM BIOMED
Arthur Graesser
Invented AutoTutor Studied discourse comprehension
TEAM CS PSYCHOLOGY
14k
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Let’s say Chico picks Alexander
- Fleming. Alexander Fleming only has 5
thousand citations but he has a Nobel Prize so he wins
Arthur Graesser
Invented AutoTutor Studied discourse comprehension
TEAM CS PSYCHOLOGY
14k
Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin
5k
TEAM BIOMED
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But if I pick Marie Curie, she has two nobel prizes so she wins.
Alexander Fleming
Discovered Penicillin
5k
TEAM BIOMED
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
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Yay! Marie Curie is my favorite scientist of all time.
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
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She invented radiation therapy.
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
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Let’s say Chico picked Erwin Schroedinger and I picked Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter
Proved universe is expanding
16k
TEAM PHYSICS
Erwin Schrodinger
Proposed “Schrodinger’s Cat”
10k
TEAM PHYSICS
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They’re both the same color so they’re in the same field – Fizziks
Saul Perlmutter
Proved universe is expanding
16k
TEAM PHYSICS
Erwin Schrodinger
Proposed “Schrodinger’s Cat”
10k
TEAM PHYSICS
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My grandpa is a fizzisist
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But he doesn’t have a nobel prize
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The one with the most citations would
- win. But they’re the same color
Saul Perlmutter
Proved universe is expanding
16k
TEAM PHYSICS
Erwin Schrodinger
Proposed “Schrodinger’s Cat”
10k
TEAM PHYSICS
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So we yell “Academic Squabble”! Because they argue.
Saul Perlmutter
Proved universe is expanding
16k
TEAM PHYSICS
Erwin Schrodinger
Proposed “Schrodinger’s Cat”
10k
TEAM PHYSICS
My theory is the best! No, my theory is the best!
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And we play another card
Saul Perlmutter
Proved universe is expanding
16k
TEAM PHYSICS
Erwin Schrodinger
Proposed “Schrodinger’s Cat”
10k
TEAM PHYSICS
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Let’s say Chico picks Thomas Kuhn and I pick Steven Pinker
Thomas Kuhn
PARADIGM SHIFT
TEAM PHILOSOPHY
PARADIGM SHIFT
102k
Steven Pinker
Developed theory of language acquisition
55k
TEAM BIOMED PSYCHOLOGY
55k
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The person who put down Thomas Kuhn says “Paradigm Shift!”
Thomas Kuhn
PARADIGM SHIFT
TEAM PHILOSOPHY
PARADIGM SHIFT
102k
Steven Pinker
Developed theory of language acquisition
55k
TEAM BIOMED PSYCHOLOGY
55k
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And then you play again and the person with the smallest citations wins
Grace Hopper
0k
Invented compiler Coined term “debugging”
TEAM CS
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
Sheldon Cooper
0k
Bazinga
TEAM PHYSICS
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Imagine they thought Grace Hopper wouldn’t win. But she would!
Grace Hopper
0k
Invented compiler Coined term “debugging”
TEAM CS
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
Sheldon Cooper
0k
Bazinga
TEAM PHYSICS
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Marie Curie wins normally and in Paradigm Shifts. She’s the Stongest Card! Yeah!
Marie Curie
0k
Discovered radioactivity Pioneered medical radiation therapy
TEAM PHYSICS
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You win when someone finally loses all their cards
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548 people have downloaded Academic Squabble
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We are planning to do research. We are just getting started.
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The IRB said we can do research on Academic Squabble
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The research study is to do research
- n other kids
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We’re going to play the game with
- ther kids so we can find out data
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We’ll play the game and then ask them what they learned.
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We’re going to give them a test. I like tests. I’m good at math tests. Tests are fun. I get 100. Sometimes.
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I want to figure out if the game
- worked. I need data.
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Then I will publish.
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