STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
Bruce Byers
Dept. of Biology, University of Massachusetts
"Evolution in the classroom: How should we respond to the Intelligent Design challenge?"
For biology teachers, Intelligent Design theory is the elephant in the room. What constitutes an appropriate and effective classroom response to this high-profile, well organized attack on scientific thinking? Should we ignore it? Confront it directly? Modify course content to implicitly counter its claims? This talk will describe ID theory's explicit challenge to teachers and will explore options for responding to it.