“Communication Rumination: Engaging with Sci-comm & Edutainment” keynote
Thanks for attending (or viewing here), and here are references/resources (in order of mention):
Lesser, L. (2021). 2020 Questions. Journal of Irreproducible Results, 53(2), 8.
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/cause/resources/fun/songs/birthday-song
AMS page with Frank Mariani 2020 cartoon
teaching doubling growth in my 2021 JHM paper and on Season 2 Episode 6 of “Blast Beyond” on a regional PBS station
Schonger & Sele (2020). How to Better Communicate the Exponential Growth of Infectious Diseases, PLOS ONE, 15(12), 1-13.
JSE papers on counterintuitive examples (Appendix C of Lesser & Kephart, 2011) and striking demonstrations (Sowey, 2001) are examples of educational hooks (Barkley 2019)
lottery outreach page has my lottery limerick, song, video, articles, etc.
Utts, J. M. (2015). Seeing Through Statistics (4th ed.). Cengage.
my USCOTS 2013 banquet edutainment
Linda Wang’s piece in Chemical & Engineering News on sci-comm via song
Lesser, L. (2011). “Combustion and Precipitation,” Journal of Irreproducible Results, 51(5), 25.
“Average Familiarity” xkcd cartoon
Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University
some sci-comm journals: International Journal of Science Education (Part B), Journal of Science Communication, Public Understanding of Science, Science Communication
math communication inspiration: Steven Strogatz 2014 AMS Notices piece, https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/media-info/communicate-math, https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/publicoutreach, https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/mathmoments/mathmoments, https://momath.org/
statistics communication inspiration: https://www.amstat.org/policy-and-advocacy/statistical-significance-series, https://statsandstories.net/, https://www.worldofstatistics.org/
Mannshardt (2021) Amstat News piece on flipped paradigm of statistics communication
Ionannidis, J. P. A. (2017). Statistical biases in science communication: What we know about them and how they can be addressed. In K. H. Jamieson, D. M. Kahan, D. A. Scheufele (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of the science of science communication (pp. 102-110). Oxford University Press.
browse “5 levels of communication” examples (e.g., machine learning), then choose a topic you teach and outline how you’d present it for 5 (or at least 3) levels of increasing complexity
my children’s TV episode on polls & surveys
my August 2016 column on polls & surveys in The Mini Page
Lesser 2020 NCTM book chapter on English language learners in statistics
Kaur’s 2023 Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid piece in J. of Humanistic Mathematics
larrylesser.com/pi-day has my Pi Day outreach articles, songs, haiku, pi chart, etc.
“Mark and Recapture” and “Desert Weather” statistics episodes I wrote for NPR-station KTEP-FM’s program Desert Diary
descriptions for multiple audiences of my research on bilingual learners learning statistics: Nov. 2009 SERJ, spring 2011 STN, and a fall 2016 university alumni magazine
my 2023 JSDSE article and video abstract (T&F tips for a good video abstract)
cartoon abstract for my 2014 paper in Journal of Mathematics and the Arts
story (and YouTube video) about Mike Morrison’s template for better conference posters
Lesser 2020 NCTM book chapter on English language learners in statistics
Discourse analysis — Lesser & Kephart Nov. 2011 JSE paper
https://www.CAUSEweb.org/fun collection of some 1000 odd items spanning 13 types
Lesser (with Pearl et al.) educational fun items and papers or humor
anthem tunes in Amstat News — “Florence,” “Doin’ Statistics,” and “God Bless the ASA”
Ward (2015) STEM-EO model