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Observations from 10/20/09

Submitted by elovejoy on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 5:04pm

Observations from 10/20/09

Emily Lovejoy

Today I was in teacher B's classroom and the students were led through a brainstorming lesson. Each student was given a piece of paper and pencil, and when the teacher said a topic, the students were to write down as many things as they could think of. Spelling didn't matter as much as writing down good ideas. The word that Teacher B gave the students was "night." Students came up with some of the following ideas:

Photo Archive

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 6:50am

Archive of Class Photos

Field Trip to Pete's Produce (September 19, 2009)
Interpreting One Another's Data (October 21, 2009)
Final Performances (December 10, 2009)

Photo Archive

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 6:45am

Archive of Class Photos

Field Trip to Pete's Produce (September 19, 2009)
Interpreting One Another's Data (October 21, 2009)

Interpreting One Another's Data

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 6:39am

Interpreting One Another's Data
October 21, 2009

Notes toward Day 15: On Seeing (and Not Seeing) Disability

Submitted by Kristin on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 8:52pm

Day 15: On Seeing (and Not Seeing) Disability

Kickboxing, posted by kjmason

from “Motion Disabled” by Simon McKeown

Notes Toward Day 14: Intersections, Overlaps, Collisions

Submitted by Kristin on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 8:39pm

Day 14: Intersections, Overlaps, Collisions

I. Coursekeeping
--naming
--mid-semester evals:
cantaloupe: let's be reckless, offensive, and offended
cristina: let's meet outside of class

sign-up for conferences about essay

--next week's assignments

the first chapter of Eli Clare's Exile and Pride is now posted on the ~annedalke page.

The brain and "reality"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 8:28am

Reality Reconsidered, From a Brain Perspective

Paul Grobstein
Quadrangle Science Series
20 October 2009

Notes Towards Day 14: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 7:34am

DID YOU BRING YOUR LAPTOP??
IF NOT PLEASE RUN AND FETCH IT NOW..

Notes Towards Day 14: Thinking some more about the interpretation of data

Notes Towards Day 13--Presenting and Interpreting One Another's Data

Submitted by Anne Dalke on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 8:17pm

I. Welcome back!
any relevant stories (about making unconscious choices, say....) over break?

Just in from Peter's Behavioral Endocrinology class: Natural Attraction, "a science based company" that sells human pheromones, marketed both to gay men and to heterosexual men and women (where are the lesbians in this picture....?)