Welcome to the home page of the Emergence and Exploration Institute at Bryn Mawr College for the year 2003. This Institute (like others in the series) is designed to bring together college faculty and K-12 teachers to discuss current understandings of "emergent systems" as a way of thinking about how novel properties arise out of simpler entities... and the implications of those understandings for classroom teaching and education generally. The Institute, which runs July 21-August 1, 2003, is supported by a grant to Bryn Mawr College from the National Science Foundation and the College's Center for Science in Society. Participants Group Photo Individual Photos Activity Photos Forum Area Forum Archive Learning Each Other's Names Reading a Picture Changing Patterns, Changing Perceptions NetLogo and TWiki: Initial Thoughts Plants and Ants God and Evolution Evolution in the Classroom Living Preferences Thinking About Race Where Does Art Come From? Thoughts About K-12 and College/University Collaborations Webweaving: Getting started TWiki Territory - a new web tool Wiki/Web Projects, Brain and Behavior Institute, 2003 Web Projects, Bridging Cultures Institute 2002 Web Projects, Diversity and Discovery Institute 2000 NetLogo, from Northwestern University's Center for Connecting Learning Useful Additional Resources

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Post-institute Assignment

Post-institute Evaluation

• EmergentInstitute
• Emergent Systems Working Group, at Bryn Mawr College
• Emergent Phenomena, an evolving wiki at Bryn Mawr College
• Complex Systems, resources from Serendip
• Decentralization and Self-Organization: Not Just for Ants, by Panama Geer
• Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds, by Mitch Resnick
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson