This week’s opening discussion about accepting diversity/problems before working toward unity/a solution was an appropriate one. Many of this summer’s participants have encountered problems when dealing with school administrators who are the “authority” on classroom management and techniques, even though they have not interacted enough with individual children on a personal basis to know that not all management styles work for every student. This kind of “authority problem” is often treated as just that: a problem. However, it should be seen as just another bit of diversity in an effort to create new dialogue out of conflicting views. Acknowledging that the opinions of those in higher positions are important to the process of making a lear

The past week has brought with it much talk of the brain, including discussions of the unconscious versus the conscious and the affects of both on student behavior in the classroom. Although a few of the institute participants are science teachers, it seemed as if the material Dr.

Going into the first week of the Summer Science Institute I was looking forward to a few things:

I don't doubt that "plagiarism" is a persistent problem that is exacerbated in the "digital age" (see Plagiarism lines blur for students in digitial age).  I do think though that it is worth noticing that there are two somewhat different issues at stake in thinking about "plagiarism," and to highlight, particularly in educational contexts, the one that often gets less attention.

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