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Excitement

Submitted by tgarber on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 7:53pm

My name is Tyler and I am extremely excited to take this course. I read the article "Memory and Imagination" and enjoyed the quote, "True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world"(Hampl).

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My Grant Mini Project 2010

Submitted by Judith Lucas-Odom on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 9:47am

Lessons in Conversations in science and science understanding

The purpose of my lesson is to build up conversations in science and allow my students to use and develop a better understanding of science by expressing what they understand and why they learn the way they do. I want my students to think about how they individually learn so that they can remove some of the misconceptions. This process will help them to become better learners. The lesson will begin with the students being given a general science question such as why are leaves green and asked to talk about it with their partner for about 5 minutes and write down what they have learned from each other and then share it with the rest of the class. Then we will begin to explore what they wrote about through experimentation using&#1

Week Three

Submitted by kgould on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 6:34pm

Week Three

Now that we’ve been engaging with new people, instructors outside of the Institute, a kind of recalcitrant xenophobia has developed—if these instructors don’t approach science as storytelling, the teachers seem to become a bit stand-offish.

Luckily, this week we had sessions with three new instructors, all of which were successful.

Week 2

Submitted by kgould on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 3:56pm

Week Two

In the second week of the Institute, I feel like our understanding of the brain and education has improved quite a bit, that people are starting to open up bit by bit. That is, not just revealing more about themselves, but perhaps letting go of some of their hardened preconceptions and misconceptions about the brain.

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall, 2010: Session 1

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 3:36pm

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Session 1

Class is itself an experiment in a particular form of education: co-constructive inquiry

Learning by interacting, sharing observations and understandings to create, individually and collectively, new understandings and new questions that motivate new observations

Evolving Systems Course: PGnotes1

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 4:17pm

Making Sense of Ourselves in an Evolving Universe

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 4:23pm

Evolving Systems Course

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Science and cultures/values

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:01am

Biology in Society Senior Seminar

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

Sessions 1,2: Science and Culture/Values

Is biology/science "objective", value-free, culture-independent, universal?
Should it be?
Is there a distinctive biology/science culture? set of values?
Should there be?

BBC News Hour 26 August (1300 GMT) segment on medicine and religion 44:01-49:30)

Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall 2010: Resources

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 5:00pm

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

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