Episode 47: Kathryn Parsley, Plant Blindness
Kathryn Parsley is a Ph.D. candidate whose specialty is plant blindness and botanical literacy. She is creating tools to assess plant blindness in students and hopes to make her tools available to teachers for use in any learning environment.
Why did Kathryn choose to study plant blindness?
What are her tools about?
Let's find out.
LINKS
Poster Presentation, Validity and Reliability of the Plant Blindness Index (PBI) and the Botanical Literacy Inventory (BLI)
Poster Presentation, Analyzing Plant and Animal Images in Undergraduate Biology Textbooks
Kathryn's blog, The Plant Blindness Problem
Sabel Lab at University of Memphis
Center for Biodiversity at the University of Memphis
Kathryn's Plantae Fellow profile