For this week, we read about the literacy and development from Street as well as Freire's piece, Cultural Action for Freedom. Street discussed the use of different languages in different contexts in Ghana such as a different language for religious versus economic settings. I was amazed by this information, coming from a homogeneous culture where most people only speak one language or possibly two if their parents speak a different language. I was fascinated that despite...
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This overview reviews key concepts and learning activities to help students understand how genes influence our traits by molecular processes. Topics covered include basic understanding of the important roles of proteins and DNA; DNA structure, function and replication; the molecular biology of how genes influence traits, including transcription and translation; the molecular biology of mutations; and genetic engineering.
To help students...
MEET IN CANADAY SEMINAR ROOM 205
I. 11:25-11:35: Introduction to the BMC Art and Artifact Collections,
by Brian Wallace, curator, and Joelle Collins, graduate student in Art History
II. 11:35-12:30--All of us together displaying The Power of Patience/ reading two objects:
a Tang dynasty ceramic tomb...
Initial Thoughts and Questions:
- What do you first think of when you hear the phrase "creating spaces to learn"?
- Working with a partner or small group come up with a collective explanation of the phrase, "creating space to learn".
- How, if at all, do you think it relates to Inquiry Instruction? How would it effect lessons and instruction?
- Any other thoughts on this topic?...
A Conversation
Begun by Paul Grobstein and Bharath Vallabha starting with Paths to Story Telling as Life: Fellow Travelling with Richard Rorty. Others are warmly invited to chime in in the forum area at the end.
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Today we will continue the work we begin in Jody's class: planning for
the presentations we'll be doing for the whole college community:
Discussion Paper – Imaging and Consciousness
Pick up a newspaper, and you will discover an amazing thing: we are living in the future. The for-real future of jet-packs, ray-guns, and mind reading. Our revolutionary imaging technology can determine what memories you are accessing, what shapes you are seeing, the degree to which a decade of happy hour has smoothed your prefrontal cortex, and...
This analysis and discussion activity helps students to understand the relationships between food, physical activity, cellular respiration, and changes in body weight. Analysis of a representative scenario helps students to understand how challenging it is to prevent weight gain by exercising to offset what seems to be a relatively modest lunch.
In an optional research project, each...
This is a palimpsest.
"We need to think less about completed products and more about texts-in-process,
we need to think less about individual authorship and more about collaboration;
we need to think less about originality and more about...
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities
Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.
Narrative is determined not by a desire to narrate but by a desire to exchange. (Roland Barthes, S/Z)
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