From the Stanford University press office:
AGU talk: Scaling climate change communication for behavior change
In a previous randomized controlled trial, Stanford University researchers developed two curricula for Girl Scouts to use energy more efficiently: one on energy use at home, and the other in transportation and food. Both courses were effective for girls in the short term, and the home energy course was effective for girls in the long term and for parents in the short term.
Subsequently, the Northern California Girl Scouts began disseminating the programs via manuals and reusable materials, but that method of disseminating the programs has not [led] to widespread use.
On Dec. 19, at 8:15 a.m. PT, Stanford researchers will describe deployment of the curricula to Girl Scout troop leaders via a massive open online course (MOOC). The talk will take place at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, Moscone West, Room 3005.
The MOOC approach has several advantages:
- Videos on teaching practice, behavior management techniques and the relevant social cognitive theory for troop leaders
- Online discussion with other troop leaders
- Feedback on teaching, use of components, mastery of curriculum and confidence
- Downloadable videos, materials for activities, badges and completion certificates
- Delivery of embedded social media, online mastery activities and quizzes for the girls
- Self-paced learning for parents
The MOOC distribution of the Girls Learning Energy & Environment is itself a study, because it is new for the audience of Girl Scout troop leaders and primary target subjects of 10-13 year olds. The researchers have access to the MOOC experience, platform and analytical tools at Stanford. They are exploiting user testing and piloting to refine their MOOC.
The investigators will launch the first MOOC in northern California and use MOOC analytics to study its success. They will then launch the refined MOOC to Girl Scout troop leaders regionally or nationally. Overall, the project aims to simulate and advance in-person train-the-trainers technologies.
The AGU talk will be presented by the following Stanford researchers:
Victoria Christine Rodriguez, PhD candidate, education: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/victoria-rodriguez/66/276/40b
Nicole Ardoin, assistant professor, education: https://profiles.stanford.edu/nicole-ardoin
June Flora, senior research scientist, https://www.linkedin.com/pub/june-flora/9/b92/820
Tom Robinson, professor of pediatrics: https://profiles.stanford.edu/thomas-robinson
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AGU abstract (GC51G-02): http://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/meetingapp.cgi#Paper/27833
Oh Gawd…
It’s disgusting the portion of alarmist “research” and commentary which is all about psychology and indoctrination rather than empirical analysis of whether there really is any AGW going on . Yet such crap will be included in counts of papers “supporting” this willful nonscience .
On that note, let’s not forget that Stanford is where the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences is located as well as Paul Ehrlich’s MAHB–Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior with its ties to UNEP.
So much easier to assess the changes in human behavior when you created the conceptual frames and mental models in the first place.
Hmm, A Glee Club for Moocs.
Green movements act analogously to parasitoids.
They infiltrate, take over and then transform other groups into a clone of themselves.
That is incorrect. It’s “Moops”, so glee club for Moops.
Thanks for that, a classic 🙂
Boys are different. Tell them “Turn that light off. IT COSTS MONEY!” You will be ignored. Until, that is, the little rascal is paying the bills.
Pochas, I can remember my dad saying the same thing.
They have to brain wash the kids, it is obviously not working with the Adults, see the Un’s own global poll.
No doubt that whole “door to door” cookie thing is causing global warming. Parents driving the little lasses about in SUV’s. The loss of energy when patrons open their doors to the little ladies.
Then there is the issue of the evil sugar in those cookies.
Thank god Stanford has embarked on a program to indoctrinate the little troopers and their parents into conforming to the Green religion.
At least the Girl Scouts are wearing “green” uniforms. One hopes the outfits are made in a “sustainable” way.
No problem anymore.
They sell the cookies online at the website.
So much with interfacing with the people.
Oops.
I may have been misinformed about the GSA and cookies.
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/
I do like the badge the girls get.
http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/images/howtobuy/Sized_Cookies_Thinmints.png
Without markets and prices, (which is the Left’s goal) everyone will have to be “trained” to use all resources efficiently. (Everything we make and do uses energy).
Except it won’t work because even the trainers (e.g., the Greenies) will not know what the relative value of different resources are. It will all be driven based on political fads and central planning dictates. No prices on anything. Just random rationing, shortages and extreme waste everywhere.
They don’t go door-to-door anymore, at least not here in CO. Too dangerous I guess. They now set up shop outside the grocery stores. Just not the same and that’s a shame.
In my city it is illegal to solicit door-to-door.
Yeah, they stand outside the Wally World, or grocery stores. Or the parents buy a buttload of cookies and sell them at their work.
What? Are boys more interested in football than saving the world?
Not “MOOCH”?
Minor quibble (second para, and probably due to software), the word “lead” should be “led”:
“,,,,,but that method of disseminating the programs has not lead to widespread use.”
Ian
It sounds to me like they are going to find out that the girl scout parents are polite when it comes to the topic, but not as gullible as they want them to be. Last year my daughter’s den had a guest environment/green speaker and everyone was very respectful, but the looks that were being passed around the room between the parents was quite amusing. Let’s just say that the individual/group was not asked to come back and give a talk again this year.
If it had been me, I would not have been content to pass around “looks”.
It’s straight out of the Klimate Indoktrination handbook; Start in the home, with the kiddies.
Whether it is extra-scientific (e.g. climate change) or social experiments, girls have been the preferred test subjects for nearly a century. The moral grace of chivalry is well and truly dead. You’re on your own, girls.
I’ve been trying to train them for almost that long myself.
Hasn’t done me much good though.
Let’s see the human subjects research application for this.
And the sad part is it’s following right along with the normal programming provided as part of the Common Core. These girls will be hearing the same information from multiple fronts all trying to turn them into good little global citizens, with appropriate social values, that respond in predictable, and highly desirable, ways. More here: http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/
I saw the traffic and came to check. Yep, spetzer, that’s the MOOC as the Dtructured Design Dialogue that was to be the original scenario of the Club of Rome before they followed Jay Forester’s computer modeling approach instead. It’s back, but I knew that because I chased this MOOC declaration to Australia several months ago.
In 1976 while we were celebrating our Bicentennial the Club of Rome also met in Philadelphia as part of assemblies to push a Declaration of Interdependence going forward. The Girls Scouts were a big participant in advocating for that vision so there is a precedent for this.
Alexander Christakis is the name of the CoR official who resigned because CoR ignored the social science approach he favored. He created Structured Design Dialogue as I mentioned. http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/framing-then-refining-lasting-webs-of-mutual-social-understanding-to-fulfill-aspiration-grounded-in-infamy/ lays that vision out and how MOOCs are really to work.
“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Are you advocating for energy profligacy?
“Train” the teachers to “train” the kids, and in a generation or less, job done. Meanwhile, a population slumbers.
Truly shocking.
Isn’t this the exact same cr*p that they rolled out in the 70’s and 80’s? They wanted to save energy then because we were running out of oil. Now they are regurgitating the exact same programs because we have too much of it.
But make no mistake about it, this is a re-run we’re watching. It didn’t take root then and it won’t take root now. When those 10 year old girls grow up a bit and get their driver’s licence, their very first request to their parents will be to borrow the car.
The Midwich cuckoos.
Programming brood parasites??
Sorry, what?
Reminds me of another place and another time I lived in. The establishment boys and girls wore green shirts with red ties or scarves respectively. Our teacher, who was a member of the CP, would take us to farm equipment exhibitions and extoll the virtues collective agriculture. The International was the preferred hymn of the day
The red and green colours were a replacement for the previous establishment shades of brown which had fallen out of fashion along with Erika.
The colours changed, the songs changed, but the structure and desired outcome of the message was very similar.
As someone said “History does not repeat, it just rhymes.”
Perhaps these are the techniques of most mass totalitarian movements, including religions.
I assume (since it wasn’t specifically mentioned) that some of the Girl Scouts would be modeled and some would be models. Is it assumed in the modeling that the modeled Girl Scouts are easier or harder to
brainwashhave their cognitive behavior managed than the Girl Scouts that are models? At what point do the models and modeled anomalies coincide?</sarc>I find it a horrible commentary on our society that this systematic indoctrination is accepted as good or normal. No wonder this country’s in the mess that it’s in.
Feel free to check out.
But can they sing Tomorrow Belongs to Me?
Here is the Abstract they submitted for the AGU14 presentation.
I wrote in WUWT post about this abstract back in October:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/10/23/scary-climate-stories-for-halloween-from-the-agu/
I’m looking for effective posters to put up at the coffee shops I visit. I have been printing out Monckton’s zero trend no global warming charts over the past few months, but I am considering creating a series of posters or pages with other content related to facts about our climate.
Here’s one I like:
http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/co2-temp-rss.png
CO2 is up. Climate yawns.
“Delivery of embedded social media, online mastery activities and quizzes for the girls”
Another truckload of propaganda workbooks for the “re-education camp”.
There is a bigger problem here with parents who would send their girls off for such indoctrination. Shameful especially since all the solutions converge towards the cluster of socialism, statism, reduced liberty and fewer personal choices.
When they are done with this round of indoctrination, leftists plan on helping these young women explore their sexuality. At least that’s the net result of the Girl Scout’s relationship with Planned Parenthood.
“Overall, the project aims to simulate and advance in-person train-the-trainers technologies.”
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Leaving alone that nonsensical statement…..I don’t even know where to go now.
They want to create missionaries to the captive children for their religion.
And what better time to convert them, than when they are young and impressionable.
It’s child abuse (there I said it).
Isn’t Stanford’s GCEP (Global Climate & Energy Project) part sponsored by ExxonMobil & Schlumberger Limited?
Girl Scouts and the green image – this ought to help their reputation:
http://thelastdoctor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Green-Tea-Chocolate-Chip-Cookie.jpg
What reputation ?
Be careful now, they are being used.
It’s a Green Blob!
This is sick.
So why target just the girls? Do they reckon boys are less gullible (institutionalised sexist groupthink)? The whole project smacks of desperation.
The same as in Germany at the last stage of WWII, when children and old men were called to arms. So don’t wonder if the inhabitants of old-age-homes are next on their list of people to indoctrinate.
Get them young and they’ll be yours forever.
Teaching energy conservation is fine, the rest is just s’more global warming propaganda…..
Promote Climate friendly behavior? Gag.
I have a better 3 point course
1. Respect your environment and neighbors
2. Spend your money wisely
3. Ignore fools.