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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: Education|| Biology|| Hearts & Minds|| The Book of Nature
Tagged With: Zirus Inc., Data Visualization, Microbiology, NPR, Science, Threshold Concepts, Virus
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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: Community of Practice, Thematic Theme Framework, Dana Hanley, WordPress, Darwin Day, Digital Literacy, Disaster Relief, Fire, Ian Stewart, Melbourne, Australian Red Cross, Rob Glazebrook, Blogging, Science, Christmas, Shanta Rohse
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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|| Mind & Society|| Science & Technology|| The Book of Nature|| Mathematics
Tagged With: Girls, Janet Hyde, Math, Power, Science, Stereotypes, Testing, Boys, Cecilia Ford, Conversation, Gender
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