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In order to prepare learners to work on the world's most pressing challenges and opportunities, educators across disciplines mustn't only help their learners gain new disciplinary knowledge. Learners today also need to build a toolbox of skills to engage in the relational work that's needed when problems have no clear definition, involve multiple stakeholders, straddle disciplinary boundaries, and have no single solution (wicked problems). Communication is one of these skills, and we can use teaching and classroom practices, assignments, and activities to model behaviors and give students practice understanding different perspectives, managing conflict, forming partnerships, or communicating across disciplines and knowledge systems. In this seminar, Dr. Timm will share practical tools and considerations she's learned from co-teaching an interdisciplinary undergraduate course on climate change and a graduate course in communicating science to help educators build students' communication skills in any classroom. 

Please register: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/10176443

This event is being held in person. If you are sick, please do not attend. If you cannot attend in person due to illness or disability, please email us at least 48 hours in advance at dcal@dartmouth.edu to make alternate arrangements. While we cannot promise an equivalent remote experience, we are happy to accommodate. Thank you!

Dr. Kristin Timm is a social scientist with the Alaska Climate Adaptation Science Center and the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She teaches, strategizes, and conducts research to try to improve communication at the interface of science and society to respond to a changing climate. She is particularly interested in how we communicate about the cryosphere as the climate changes and how to build capacity for actionable science. She has a doctorate from George Mason University in strategic communication and worked with the Center for Climate Change Communication. Prior to starting her research career, she spent nearly a decade helping scientists communicate their work in agencies, non-profit, and academic settings. 

Dr. Timm's visit to campus is sponsored by the Institute of Arctic Studies and Global Health Initiative in the John Sloan Dickey Center.