Avida-ED Home Page

• June 22, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at Evolution 2008 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) conference. Minneapolis, MN.

• May 29, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives a workshop demonstration of Avida-ED at BioQUEST/NESCent SELECTION Workshop: Tools for Teaching Evolution. Durham, NC.

• April 4, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University.

• April 18, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at 7th Annual International Bioethics Forum: Evolution in the 21st Century. BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Madison, WI .

• November 28, 2007: A half-day workshop on using Avida-ED will be given at the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Register at http://www-dev.nescent.org/eog/signup_digital_organism.php.

• November 2, 2007: Released a special Mac OS X version of Avida-ED that runs natively on Intel Macs. Now available in the Download area.

• October 19, 2007: Robert Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) conference in Detroit, Michigan.

• July 7, 2007: Robert Pennock gives an invited talk about the design and development of Avida-ED at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in London, England.

• June 19, 2007: After three years of development and classroom testing, Avida-ED was officially released for public distribution at the Society for the Study of Evolution meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Avida-ED Home Page
	Technology for Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science using Digital Organisms Avida-ED is a program developed at Michigan State University for undergraduate biology courses to help students learn about evolution and scientific method by allowing them to design and perform experiments to test hypotheses about evolutionary mechanisms using evolving digital organisms.
	Avida-ED is discussed in the 10 Feb. 2006 issue of Science.
NEWS AND UPDATES
• June 22, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at Evolution 2008 Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) conference. Minneapolis, MN. • May 29, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives a workshop demonstration of Avida-ED at BioQUEST/NESCent SELECTION Workshop: Tools for Teaching Evolution. Durham, NC. • April 4, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University. • April 18, 2008: Robert T. Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at 7th Annual International Bioethics Forum: Evolution in the 21st Century. BioPharmaceutical Technology Center, Madison, WI . • November 28, 2007: A half-day workshop on using Avida-ED will be given at the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Register at http://www-dev.nescent.org/eog/signup_digital_organism.php. • November 2, 2007: Released a special Mac OS X version of Avida-ED that runs natively on Intel Macs. Now available in the Download area. • October 19, 2007: Robert Pennock gives an invited talk and demonstration of Avida-ED at the National Science Teacher Association (NSTA) conference in Detroit, Michigan. • July 7, 2007: Robert Pennock gives an invited talk about the design and development of Avida-ED at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) in London, England. • June 19, 2007: After three years of development and classroom testing, Avida-ED was officially released for public distribution at the Society for the Study of Evolution meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Technology for Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science using Digital Organisms

Technology for Teaching Evolution and
the Nature of Science using Digital Organisms