Hi, guys. This week's reading is Edwin Abbott's Flatland which,
like Brecht's Galileo, is a story about why and how
people revise stories and what the consequences are of so doing.
What does Flatland add to our ongoing thinking about such matters? To our
thinking about the relation between fairy tales, scientific stories,
and literary ones?
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Links to Additional Websites about Inquiry Based Education and Co-Constructive Dialogue
Here are some interesting links that we found on the Internet about Inquiry Based Education and Co-Constructive Dialogue:
http://gerrystahl.net/cscl/cscl97/consort/Jeong.html
-Interesting because “The preliminary findings show that although students all had...
In the model of open-inquiry, let me pose a the following questions to you:
- What does inquiry mean to you?
- How have you or how would you like to use inquiry-based education in your classroom?
- What other concerns or thoughts do you have regarding inquiry and its role in education?
Post your answers in the forum below. (To post immediately, please sign into Serendip Exchange at the...
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It is in fact Genetics.
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It is in fact Genetics.
Now, let's take a look at those earlier questions.
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Literary Kinds
Paper 1-Blogging
is greater than
bLogGerRiffic!
personal blogs vs. political blogs are the different??
The inner-workings of political blogs, personal blogs, and beyondddddddd
What is the deal with blogs? Are blogs the medium through which we share ideas-is the blogosphere merely a convenient means of transferring information? For my paper, I wanted to...
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