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Little Things

November 14, 2009

For me, microbiology always communicates a sense of secret revelation – it is so intimate, our very flesh & blood, and yet so intricate and strange. What a wonder to be able to see some small portion of the invisible entities that underlie our physical life!

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Shelved with: Biology|| Education|| Hearts & Minds|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Data Visualization, Microbiology, NPR, Science, Threshold Concepts, Virus, Zirus Inc.
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Feedburning Learning

February 12, 2009

Feeds & email updates are all about drawing readers into a community from the margins–which is to say, they are all about learning.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds
Tagged With: Australian Red Cross, Blogging, Christmas, Community of Practice, Dana Hanley, Darwin Day, Digital Literacy, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Rob Glazebrook, Science, Shanta Rohse, Thematic Theme Framework, WordPress
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Male and Female: Equal After All

August 2, 2008

Cecilia Ford’s investigations into the power of conversation for her new book, Women Speaking Up: Getting and Using Turns in Workplace Meetings, are reviewed here: Researcher finds that women are speaking up; and Janet Hyde, author of Half the Human Experience, has published research that finds no gender differences in math performance.

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Shelved with: Hearts & Minds|| Mathematics|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Boys, Cecilia Ford, Conversation, Gender, Girls, Janet Hyde, Math, Power, Science, Stereotypes, Testing
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