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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.

 

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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.

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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

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Evolving Systems Course: PGnotes1

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 4:17pm
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Making Sense of Ourselves in an Evolving Universe

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

 

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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)

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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

Course Resource List

This list is an idiosyncratic sampling of materials on the web and elsewhere.  Suggestions for additions to this list are welcome in the on-line forum at the bottom of the page.  

General Serendip resources

Reflecting on the Truth

Towards Day 3 of Evolving Systems course

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Brain, Education, and Inquiry - Fall 2010 Home Page

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 1:32pm

Brain, Education, and Inquiry

Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2010

A discussion of intersections between the neural and cognitive sciences and the theory and practice of education.  In addition to in class conversation,  students will participate in on-line forum discussion of papers on this general subject, lead discussions and write web papers on topics of particular interest to themselves.  Others are welcome to join in the conversation by way of background readings and on-line forums associated with each class session (see schedule below), and via the on-line forum at the end of this page.  

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