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Hello everyone! My name is Ashley Dawkins and I am rising senior here at Bryn Mawr College. I am a physics major, education minor, and study other things such as; math and Spanish. I plan on becoming an urban public high school physics and math teacher. I have to agree with Graham in that I do not believe the current way we are presenting science (physics in particular) is particularly effective. I am with working Paul this summer exploring more effective ways of teaching and learning science and math. Hopfully this research will continue into the school as I formulate thesis ideas.

I do like the idea that science is all about becoming less wrong. This is relevant not only to education but to physics as well. For instance in my future classroom I probably will do various things wrong and throughout my career will strive to become less wrong. Similarly, in physics, we are always looking for a less wrong way of describing the universe.

Science as story telling and story telling in general (as Paul describes it) can at times seem unrealistic. I say this because I'm not sure if we could ever get everyone in the world to listen and acknowledge everyone else's stories. At the same time, I think it's necessary to be hopeful and do our part in order to be a catalyst for change. I also think that I may perceive story telling a little differently...but I guess that's the whole idea...I acknowledged Paul's ideas and in turn it affected my own. I think that's the most important part: it's still my own.