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A Random Walk with Serendip

Randomness is cool and interesting... and randomness can be important too, from biological diversity to artistic innovation. Here, have fun with 10 random pages from Serendip. Does "mixing" them together create some new ideas? Feel free to return another day to find another random walk, or play Chance in Life and the World for a new perspective on randomness and order.

I'm really excited to visit the high school in a couple of weeks.  We've talked so much about education in class and about different teaching methods such as banking and problem posing.  I hope we get to sit in on classrooms and see what kind of methods they use in their classrooms and how students respond to them.  It'll be interesting comparing the different teaching methods from a liberal arts college to a public urban high school.

To be completely honest, I'm not...

I secured my new teaching position today! I will be teaching middle school science at The Global Leadership Academy Charter School.

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 9

Braiding three lines of inquiry

  • our own experiences of education in relation to other peoples'
  • doing our own experiment in co-constructive inquiry...

Growing Up James: A Playlist for Haphazard Education and No Backyard Barbeques

 

 

During the semester, we read books, diaries, a play, and essays. We even looked at a poem that was supposed to be about Henry and...

February 12th, 2013 

How do you know the difference between abuse and discipline? 

Abuse                vs.                     Discipline 

Abuse 

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Venture, n. & v.

etymonline.com: mid-15c., "to risk the loss" (of something), shortened form of aventure, itself a form of adventure. General sense of "to dare, to presume" is recorded from 1550s. Noun sense of "risky undertaking" first recorded 1560s; meaning "enterprise of a business nature" is recorded from 1580s. Venture capital is attested from 1943.

 

Wiktionary....

 

 

Monday, I texted him, “tell me story…”

Thursday, my mate sat across from me starting with,

“I was walking to work when I was almost run over;

It was a man on a unicycle racing to make the ferry

I being crew, he inquired, ‘if his unicycle could

Be checked with the bicycles.’ ‘That’s correct,’

...

 Ethnography: the branch of anthropology that provides scientific description of individual human societies (Wordnet). Greek ἔθνος ethnos = folk/people and γραφία graphia = writing (Dictionary.com). This is a simple enough definition of a word that has endless possibilities and problems behind it. How do you tell someone else’s story as fairly and objectively as you can while still reminding the reader...

Biology 202
2002 Third Paper
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Repressed Memory

Kathryn Fong

If someone asks me, "Where were you on September 11, 2001?" I would be able to give that person an accurate answer. It seems impossible to ever forget the events of that day. How could one forget such a traumatic day? It seems like life changing events would...