ELSIhub Resources for Educators
ELSIhub strives to provide our audience with scholarship, educational content, webinars, community news, and resources focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics. Below is a compilation of resources that are of particular relevance to educators. Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like to share a resource that is not listed below!
ELSIhub Collections
ELSIhub Collections are essential reading lists on fundamental or emerging topics in ELSI, curated and explained by expert Collection Editors, often paired with ELSI trainees. This series assembles materials from cross-disciplinary literatures to enable quick access to key information. Listed below are three collections that may be of interest to educators:
- Genomics of Education in Education: ELSI Concerns about Genomic Prediction in Educational Settings
- Neurobehavioral Genetic Testing in Children: How Much Should We Know?
- Race, Genetics, and Genetics Education
The full set of collections are available on the ELSIhub Collections page under the resources section.
SNAPSHOTs
pgEd SNAPSHOTs are student-facing, bite-size modules are tailored to the challenges of distance learning. Each SNAPSHOT provides high quality and meaningful content that students can work through in a self-directed manner, in 15-20 minutes. Listed below are a few examples of SNAPSHOT topics:
- Introduction to Genetics and Medicine
- ACTN3: Can Genetics Tell Me if I am Going to be an Olympic Sprinter?
- Ancestry and Identity in the Genomic Age
The full set of SNAPSHOTs are available on the pgEd Educational Resources for Distance Learning page.
Videos
CERA records and archives our seminars and conferences on ELSIhub. Please find videos and related resources of particular interest to educators below.
- ELSIconversations: Exploring Difference in the Biology Classroom: What Genetic Ancestry Tests Mean (and What They Don't). [Related resources]
- ELSIconversations: Exploring Difference in the Biology Classroom: Engaging with Genetic Disability and Difference. [Related resources]
- ELSIconversations: Exploring Difference in the Biology Classroom: How to represent wide-ranging family structures and personal identities using the latest pedigree nomenclature. [Related resources]
- ELSI Friday Forum: Wrestling with Social and Behavioral Genomics. [Related resources]
- ELSI Friday Forum: Ethical Challenges in Novel Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease. [Related resources]
- ELSIcon2022: The Fallacy of Biological Race: Systemic Racism in Genomics
- ELSIcon2022: Ableism, Audism, Ethics, and Genetics: A Just and Equitable Deaf Future?
- ELSIcon2022: Troubled Dreams: Genetics, Race, and the Search for Justice in Sickle Cell Disease
All recordings of ELSIhub events can be accessed in the ELSIhub Video Archive.