Kim Anne Kastens: Talks & Posters
Talks
- Spatial Thinking in the New York State High School Earth Science Exam. Presented at the Geological Society of America, 9 October 2011.
- Geoscience Data Puzzles: Developing Students' Ability to Make Meaning from Data. Presented at the American Geophysical Union, 12 December 2010.
- Synthesis of Research on Thinking & Learning in the Geosciences: Developing Representational Competence. Presented at Geological Society of America, 19 October 2009.
- What Problems are We Trying to Solve Through the Use of Data, Simulations, and Visualizations in Geoscience Education, and How Research on Learning Can Help (25.6MB). Presented at the Workshop on Teaching with New Geoscience Tools: Visualizations, Models, and Online Data, February 11, 2008, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Cognitive Science Meets Field Geology: How do geologists and students visualize 3-D geological structures from the limited spatial information available in outcrops? (13.9MB). Presented at the Seismology, Geology, and Tectonophysics Seminar, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, October 22, 2007.
- What We've Learned so far about Visualizations in Geoscience Education (1.4 MB). Presented at Gordon Conference On Visualization in Science & Education, July 5, 2007.
- Students' Strategies & Mistakes Using a Map in the Real World (19.8MB). Talk given at L-DEO Marine Geology & Geophysics seminar, March 8, 2007.
- To What Extent Should Human/Environment Interactions be Included in Science Education? (9.8MB). Kim A. Kastens and Margie Turrin. Presented to Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), July 19, 2006.
- Local Kid Makes Good... with help from the hometown folks. Talk given at symposium in honor of Charlie McClennen, June 1, 2006.
- Understanding, and Improving, How Children Use Maps (16.2MB). Teachers College, September 19, 2005.
- Columbia University's Program in Earth & Environmental Science Journalism (2.7MB). Presentation to SommerUSAademie 2005 Wissenschaftsjournalismus, 6 September 2005.
- DLESE as a source of Pedagogical Cotent Knowledge (0.74MB). DLESE Annual Meeting, University of South Florida, July 10, 2005.
- Spatial Thinking in Geosciences (14MB). CIESIN Spatial Seminar, May 5, 2005.
- The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE): What it can do for Educators and Research Programs (2.4MB). L-DEO MG&G Seminar presented by Kim Kastens and Neil Holzman, February 23, 2005.
- Pitfalls [and Possibilities] in the Use of Maps to Visualize Earth Data and Understand Earth Processes (3.7MB). Presented at workshop on Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Carleton College, February 27, 2004. See also, Kastens' pre-workshop essay (pdf) "My Attempts to Use Maps (and Help Students use Maps) as a Tool for Visualizing, Synthesizing, Capturing and Conveying Information about the Earth."
Posters
- Spatial Concepts are Critical in Science Education (1.8MB). Lynn S. Liben in collaboration with Kim A. Kastens, Shruti Agrawal, Adam E. Christensen, and Lauren J. Meyers. Presented at NSF, February 19, 2009.
- Visualizing a 3-D Structure from Outcrop Observations: Strategies Used by Geoscience Experts, Students and Novices (32MB). Kim A. Kastens, Toru Ishikawa, and Lynn S. Liben. Presented at the special session on "Visualization in the Geosciences" at the Geological Society of America annual meeting, Philadelphia, October 24, 2006.
- Adding Value to NSDL Resources through Pedagogical Content Knowledge Annotations (2.8MB). Neil Holzman, Kim A. Kastens, and Robert A. Arko. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Science Digital Library, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2006.
- Water-level Task Performance and Gender are Linked to Success in Geology (2.2MB). Lynn S. Liben, Kim A. Kastens, and Adam E. Christensen. Presented at the 18th Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Science, New York, May 26, 2006.
- Undergraduates Struggle to Locate Horizontal and Vertical within a Slanting Surface, a Precursor Skill to the Geologists' Measurement of Strike and Dip (18.4MB). Lynn S. Liben, Kim A. Kastens, and Adam E. Christensen. Presented at NSF Research on Learning and Education Principal Investigator's Meeting, December 2005.
- Earth System Science Education as a System: Who is Responsible for Closing the Loop? (0.27MB) Margaret Turrin, Kim A. Kastens. Presented at the 2005 Meeting of the Coalition for Earth Systems Education, Implementing Earth System Science, K-16, September 2005.
- Instructor's Individualized Reports (IIR) from the DLESE Community Review System (CRS) (3.5MB). Neil Holzman, Kim Kastens, Robert Arko. Presented at the DLESE Annual Meeting, July 2005.
- Where Are We? Understanding and Improving how Children Translate from a Map to the Represented Space and Vice Versa (57.9MB). Kim A. Kastens, Lynn S. Liben. Presented at the Instructional Materials Development PI's Meeting, February 2005.
- Identifying and Finding Resources and Resource Types that Work for DLESE's Various Audiences (8.6MB). Kim A. Kastens, Barbara DeFelice, Christopher DiLeonardo, Sharon Tahirkheli. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, November 7-10, 2004, and at the Annual Meeting of the National Science Digital Library, November 15-17, 2004
- Students' Misconceptions About the Correspondences Between a Map and the Terrain Represented by the Map (3.2MB). Kim A. Kastens, Jennifer Griffith, Lynn S. Liben, and Linda Pistolesi. Presented at Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 2003.