[FUN_Mail] No teaching workshop at SfN 2021

Sun Aug 1 20:08:40 UTC 2021

Greetings from Vermont!

Thank you for your advocacy on our behalf now and in past years, Richard.
Be assured I'll express my disappointment to Vlera Kojcini at SfN.

*Onward!*

Will

Will J. Millard
35 Doc Hardy Lane
Norwich, Vermont  05055-9651
USA

Will.J.Millard at Dartmouth.edu
wmillard at mtholyoke.edu
802.649.3085 (residence, vmail)

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 3:59 PM Richard Olivo <rolivo at smith.edu> wrote:

> If the annual SfN workshop on teaching neuroscience is one of the events
> that you look forward to every year, I regret to tell you that SfN has
> excluded the workshop that was planned for the 2021 annual meeting. That
> workshop, on "Reviving Neuroanatomy,'' was organized by Bill Grisham for
> the 2020 SfN annual meeting and then deferred to 2021 at SfN's request. A
> few days ago, when Bill inquired about arrangements for this year's
> meeting, he and I were informed that the workshop was not included in the
> program.
>
> This will be the first year since 2005 that the SfN annual meeting does
> not include a professional development workshop on teaching neuroscience.
> These teaching workshops have consistently been well-attended and highly
> rated, and have featured topics that spanned a range of current concerns
> about teaching neuroscience. (The topics are listed below, along with a
> description of the planned 2021 workshop.) If you have benefitted from
> these workshops and wish to express your disappointment, one person at SfN
> to contact is Vlera Kojcini <vkojcini at sfn.org>. I view canceling the
> workshop as yet another example of SfN's indifference to the teaching that
> its members do.
>
> The planned 2021 workshop's title and description are:
> *Teaching Neuroscience: Reviving Neuroanatomy*
>     Students often find neuroanatomy a daunting exercise of rote
> memorization in a dead language. This workshop is designed to enliven the
> teaching of neuroanatomy. We recast the topic by extending it to the
> cellular and molecular levels as well as animating it by learning to build
> a brain. We describe how to rejuvenate pedagogical practices delivered both
> online and in person. Lastly, a physiologist-turned-neuroanatomy-instructor
> offers a fresh approach through personal experience.
>
> Many FUN members have contributed as workshop panelists, starting with the
> first one in 2005, and they and others often provided suggestions to help
> me plan workshops. In recent years, several workshops were organized by our
> FUN colleagues Bill Grisham and Monica Linden. The full list of topics
> follows, in reverse chronological order:
>
> 2019  Teaching Computation in Neuroscience
> 2018  Emotion and Learning
> 2017  Evidence-Based Approaches to Teaching Neuroscience
> 2016  Teaching Neuroscience with Big Data
> 2015  Teaching Neuroscience to Non-Scientists
> 2014  Online Learning
> 2013  Are Printed Textbooks Obsolete?
> 2012  Connecting to the Humanities and Social Sciences
> 2011  A Preview of ERIN, Educational Resources in Neuroscience
> 2010  Undergraduate Curricula and Graduate Expectations
> 2009  Teaching Neuroscience with Case Studies
> 2008  Teaching Neuroscience for Long-Term Learning
> 2007  Teaching Neuroscience: Innovative Laboratories
> 2006  Resources for Teaching Neuroscience
> 2005  Teaching Neuroscience
>
> Sincerely,
> Richard Olivo
>
> --------
> Richard F Olivo, PhD
> Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College
> Founding Editor, Educational Resources (ERIN), Society for Neuroscience
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>        rolivo at smith.edu
>
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