Transcript Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life Website

School of Info. Management & Systems
U. C. Berkeley
Science, Vol 300, Issue 5626, p 1694, 13 June 20
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Study Goals
• Context
• Value
• Usability Challenges
Study Goals
• Understand how teachers currently teach
about the evolutionary relationships between
organisms
• Determine how future software might
facilitate common teaching tasks
• Identify usability challenges
Methods
• Talk with People
• Examine Existing Visualizations
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Key Findings & Recommendations
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
“This is scientific information by
scientists for scientists.”
–High school teacher
Crossing
the Gap
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Key Findings & Recommendations
• A GAP between research and teaching
• The info is overwhelming!! Usability is key
• The Tree’s history serves learning
• Build bridges to tree-thinking
Evolutionary Relationships
Common
ancestor of
birds and
dinosaurs
Common
ancestor of
humans and
dinosaurs
time
……..Progress!
The Star!!
It’s all about Me!
Node flip movie
Teaching with a Visual Tree of Life
• What we did
• Findings and Recommendations
• Visions for the Future
Our Clients
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CIPRES outreach
Tree of Life web project
HCIL biodiversity information visualization
Ed experts at UCMP and University of Pittsburgh
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
Visions for the Future
• User-centered design and development
• A biologically meaningful index to
biological information
• A public mental map of the tree of life
A big THANK YOU!!
The CIPRES Project www.phylo.org
Advisors Nancy Van House and Brent Mishler
Our participants  Cynthia Parr at HCIL  Kim Rathbun
Adrian Barnett  UCMP
This work is funded by the CIPRES project
BUILDING THE TREE OF LIFE: A National Resource for Phyloinformatics and Computational Phylogenetics
Part of the NSF Information Technology Research program