Reacting and Related Titles

Reacting and Related Titles

Marsha Driscoll served as professor and chair of psychology at Bemidji State University, where she was also director of the Honors Program. Her scholarly interests include the nature and role of cognitive and affective empathy, adult development, and the interdisciplinary connections of psychology to the other social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.

Greta Turnbull

"I teach the Darwin game as part of a class on the role of social factors in the scientific process for senior students. A full year later, even graduated students are talking about
their experiences in the game, how it changed how they understand science and how it moved them beyond intellectual recognition of the social factors at play in science into a deep and embodied sense of the scientific process as thoroughly human. I'll never forget what a second semester senior told me he stayed up into the middle of the night to call the Royal Society of Science archivist in London on the phone to gain more information about his character, with no prompting whatsoever from me. The Darwin game motivates students to engage their own learning in a way I'd never seen before."

Ann Engar

"I taught Darwin on Zoom in the spring but without demonstration labs. It worked very well because student opposing views are paired, so there is a structure that is simple for online."

Anonymous

"I'm currently going through the reflections of my students on their voting decisions in the Darwin game and they have been very enlightening. This is the first time I've taught the game and there have been quite a few teething problems, but the enthusiasm and the historical insight has been palpable in their responses."