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Science Literacy
Beginner
Online
2 WeeksQuick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Coursera |
The Syllabus
Videos
- Welcome to Science Literacy
- A Difference of Opinion
- Heuristics
- Science isn't "Just a Theory"
- Traditional Knowledge: Part 1
- Traditional Knowledge: Part 2
- Traditional Knowledge: Part 3
Readings
- Creating Convincing Arguments
- Drag and Drop Activity: Empirical, anecdotal or logical
- Biases in Decision-Making
- Drag and Drop Activity: Types of Bias
- Science and Not Science
- Metaphysical Thought
- Drag and Drop Activity: Metaphysical
- Accumulating Knowledge
- Suggested Reading
- Drag and Drop Activity: Traditional and Scientific Knowledge
Practice Exercises
- Empirical evidence
- Pre-flection: Common Sense and Intuition
- Common sense and intuition
- End of Module 1 Quiz
Videos
- Pseudoscience and Science-ploitation
- Fraud Science, Bad Science or Pseudoscience?
- Why do we fall for Pseudoscience?
Readings
- Drag and Drop Activity: Science vs Pseudoscience
- Watch and Reflect: Hallmarks of Pseudoscience
- Drag and Drop Activity: Hallmarks of Science vs Hallmarks of Pseudoscience
- Logical Fallacies
- Drag and Drop Activity: Logical Fallacies
- Drag and Drop Activity: Uncertainty Vs Logic
- Carl Sagan: The Demon Haunted World
Practice Exercises
- Preflection: Science or Pseuodoscience?
- Science or Pseuodoscience? Review
- Science, Fraudulent Science or Bad Science?
- Uncertainty
- Uncertainty Review
- Video reflection: Skeptical or not?
- The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection
- The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection II
- The Demon-Haunted World: Reflection III
- End of Module 2 Quiz
Videos
- Alternative explanations
- Correlation is not Causation
- Replicability in Evidence
- The Strength of Evidence
- Falsifiability
- Occam's Razor
Readings
- The Who, What, Why, When and How of Critical Thinking
- Thinking Critically about a Claim
- Thinking Critically About a Claim 2
- Revisiting terms about Correlation-Causation
- Article: Illusions of Causality
- Drag and Drop Activity: Correlation, Not Causation
- Drag and Drop Activity: Replicability
- The 3 Rs
- Why didn't the bird cross the road?
- Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence
- Watch and Reflect: How did our view of the Universe Change?
- Drag and Drop Activity: Claims Proportional to the Evidence
- Ylang Ylang Evidence Review
- Karl Popper
- Drag and Drop Activity: Falsifiability and Risky Predictions
- Watch and Reflect: Falsifiability
- Onsite inspection of reputed UFO landing marks at Duhamel, Alberta
- Drag and Drop Activity: Making Fewest Possible Assumptions
- Recommended listening and reflection
Practice Exercises
- Reflection: Critical Thinking or not?
- Lesson Reflection
- Assessing Associations 1
- Assessing Associations 2
- Replicability
- Why didn't the bird cross the road?
- Astronomy Video Reflection
- Lesson Preflection: Falsifiability
- UFO or UF-NO?
- End of Module 3 Quiz
Videos
- Variables
- Research techniques and models
- Sampling
- Correlation
Readings
- What is in a Scientific Paper?
- What Can Blind Fish Teach Us About Sleep?
- Drag and Drop Activity: Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method
- Drag and Drop Activity: Variables
- What is a hypothesis
- Drag and Drop Activity: Hypothesis testing
- Research Design 1
- Drag and Drop Activity: Population Sample
- Research Design 2
- Research Design 3
- Drag and Drop Activity: Surveys
- Research Design 4
- Drag and Drop Activity: Research Design Case Study
Practice Exercise
- End of Module 4 Quiz
Videos
- Peer Review: the scientist's perspective
- Statistics
- Science Communication
- Sharpening and Levelling
- Science Vs Opinions
- Scientists can miscommunicate their science too!
- Congratulations!
Readings
- Watch and Reflect: What is Peer Review?
- Read a Peer Reviewed Article
- Drag and Drop Activity: Evidence Based Conclusions from Primary and Secondary Sources
- Watch and Reflect: Descriptive Statistics
- How Scientists Use Statistics, Samples, and Probability to Answer Research Questions
- Watch and Reflect: Inferential Statistics
- Using Inferential Statistics
- Drag and Drop Activty: Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
- How to avoid statistical errors
- When statistical significance is not practically significant
- Watch and Reflect: Statistical vs Practical Significance
- Drag and Drop Activity: Practical vs Statistical Significance
- Watch and Reflect: The Importance of media communicating science1
- Drag and Drop Activity: Problems and Solutions in Science Reporting
- Suggested Listening: Torah Kachur
- News Coverage of A Scientific Finding
- Drag and Drop Activity: Sharpening, Levelling or Pseudosymmetry
- Disparity in claim on social media and strength of supporting evidence
- Watch and reflect: Social Media
- Watch and reflect: Scientists Communicating Science
- Rules for Scientists Communicating Science
- Scientists "digesting" their science to a general audience
- Writing Your Digest
- Drag and Drop Activity: Spreading and Stopping Misinformation
- Watch and Reflect: Insist on Evidence- Open Data
Practice Exercises
- Preflection: What is Peer Review?
- Assessing the meaning of statistics
- Case Study: Biofilm
- Abstract and Highlights
- News Coverage Article Reflection
- Sharpening and Levelling
- Open Data
- End of Module 5 Quiz
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22 May'25, 10:05 AM
22 Jun'24, 11:01 AM
4 Jun'24, 11:29 AM
8 Apr'24, 04:22 AM
23 Mar'24, 11:44 AM
19 Mar'24, 11:29 AM
27 Feb'24, 11:36 AM