A Random Opinion Piece on K12 Teacher Training

A group from University of Colorado, Boulder led by Michael Klymkowsky has been doing interesting research looking at how biology students deal with randomness in biology. They've found (as have we in our own studies on diffusion and osmosis) that college biology students tend to have a really hard time thinking about random processes, or how randomness can be an integral component of many biological processes such as evolution or the movement of materials through diffusion. I want to do a longer entry on this soon, but for today, Klymkowsky and Erin Furtak have an interesting opinion piece out on teaching randomness, evolution, physics and chemistry to budding K-12 science teachers. Worth a read.