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I. We have so much to "process"!
II. Coursekeeping first
I and your writing group should have gotten, by now, your questions,
your notes, and your "impressions across" your three interviews.
We will spend last 1/2 hour of the class in writing groups, when your
task will...
Monday June 25, 2007
Morning: Paul Grobstein- Between Reality and the Virtual: Education in the 21st Century
The Institute began helping the teachers understand that the line between what we believe to be virtual and reality may not be as clear as we thought. In order to do this Paul used examples of ambiguous pictures to demonstrate how there are things in our world that can be...
“Tell me a story…”
Lighthousekeeping
Thank you for taking me to the Moth last night. I do have money for you for my ticket. I’m
sorry I forgot to give it to you.
Wil’s breaking project essay is as much a reflection of him as you as me. I am beginning to
break old habits.
At the start of my life and at the start of the summer, I said no to you. I held you at a distance.
How does a...
Christine Sun Kim: Silence as Discipline and Mediated Viewings of Art
“Hold your tongue”. “Use your inside voice”. “Don’t talk back”. These common phrases all refer to controlling your silence/voice as a way of demonstrating control and discipline. From a young age, children are taught rules of silence and quietness at home and at school, to varying degrees given that culture of their environment. Many of my classmates have...
It happens to all of us occasionally. As you walk down the hallway you see a familiar face—someone you have recently met—you reach into your brain expecting a complicated series of synaptic firing to bring forth the name person in front of you only to be disappointed. Although you know it is there in the recesses of your mind, you cannot summon the name of your new acquaintance. You settle instead for the ubiquitous nod and the word “hello”.
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Sandra Gandarez
Neurobiology and Behavior
Book Commentary
The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul by Francis Crick
One of the first things Francis Crick does is define consciousness as stated by Stuart Sutherland in The International Dictionary of Psychology. Before even laying out the table of contents or the introduction he has that definition outlined. I think that although this is a small aspect of the book as a whole that it...
I. Coursekeeping
on Thursday, we'll have a reckoning: course evaluations; we'll also review in our small groups all the requirements for completing the course (final projects, portfolios)...
Reflections on the Summer Science Institute
Before the Institute …
When I first inquired about working as an intern with Dr. Grobstein and Wilfred Franklin in the K-12 Pre-College Summer Science Institute, I admit that I hardly knew what that would involve. The only thing that I did know is that my main interest in the summer institute came from the fact that I was interested in the apparent dichotomy between an “English” brain and a “science” brain. I...
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