Lately people have been sending me all sorts of interesting articles to read! I’ve linked below to three really thought provoking ones that I’ve come across lately. One’s about frustration during clicker training, another is about neuroscience, and the third is about teaching algebra through games. So, all three are completely different, but I hope […]
I’m in Seattle this weekend for the 38th annual convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International. This is my second year to attend the ABAI convention. I’ve been here since Thursday and I’m having a great time so far! The convention is five days full of fun. I get to connect with lots of […]
Here’s a great clicker training video I found on youtube recently of a pretty cute dog trick. The dog has been trained to stick her head into a pot. I like this video because, although it is short, it shows all of the steps of the shaping process that was used to train this trick […]
These are my notes from the 2012 Art and Science of Animal Training Conference. Click here for more notes from this conference. If you’ve been around enough clicker trainers and positive animal trainers, you’ll find that everyone has an opinion about shaping, luring and targeting. And, trainers often don’t agree about which of these methods […]
We watched a fun DVD yesterday in the undergrad class that I am helping with as a teaching assistant. The DVD was one by dog trainer Virginia Broitman called The Shape of Bow Wow. This DVD is an intro to shaping, or training behaviors in small steps. Shaping is a very important skill for animal […]
Last week we had a woman come and give several lectures to our department about behavior analysis and autism. She helps run a large treatment center in Georgia for children with autism. The two lectures she gave in the morning were pretty interesting. In the afternoon, we had a handful of presentations so that some […]
