Community Lecture Series

"30,000+ Decisions a Day: The How, What, and Why of Decisions and Decision Education"

Presenter: Rachel Schiera
Reception: 5:30 p.m.
Presentation: 6:00 p.m.

By some estimates, we make tens of thousands of decisions in a single day. How do we learn to make the decisions we do? What is the role of educators in decision making? What other factors play into our decision-making processes? This lecture will share recent research on how decision making is taught and learned and how generative AI is potentially impacting the decisions we make every day.

Rachel Schiera has taught PreK through university-aged students in five countries through the course of her career and has delivered teacher training in association with Oxford University Press, the Government of the Republic of Korea, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Fulbright Program in the United States. She holds a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and holds an assistant professorship at Lander University. She also acts as co-coordinator of the Call Me MiSTER chapter at Lander University and contributes to the Lander University Faculty Senate. She has contributed for more than 10 years to curriculum development in the Sultanate of Oman; published on teacher transformation; and written for the Association for Childhood Education International and National Council of Teachers of English. Her scholarly work currently focuses on decision education in the age of generative AI.