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Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities

Remote Ready Biology Learning Activities has 50 remote-ready activities, which work for either your classroom or remote teaching.

Henri Rousseau, Exotic Landscape, 1908

1998 Diversity and Discovery Institute

A two week summer institute for Philadelphia precollege teachers held at Bryn Mawr College. Supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

PARTICIPANTS

Rita Brown		Wilson Middle
Olivia Cunningham		Wilson Middle School
Randal Holly		FitzSimons Middle School
Lois Isley		FitzSimons Middle School
Joan McLaughlin Johnston		Northeast High
Nora Kasper		Father Judge High
Patricia Mathews		Wilson Middle
Dolores Millender		FitzSimons Middle
Peggy Outing		FitzSimons Middle
Yvette Palmer		Wilson Middle
Maceo Randall		Lincoln High School
Luci Ryan		AMY - Northwest
Geneva Tolliferreo		Central West A.B.L.E. Academy
Regina Toscani		Central East Middle School
Marita Wagner		Laura Carnell
Arvel Wells		FitzSimons Middle
Alison Cook-Sather		Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Kimberly Cassidy		Bryn Mawr College
Paul Grobstein		Bryn Mawr College

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Notes

Diversity and discovery in biology

Biology would seem to tell us that the rights of individuals and distinctive groups of individuals should be regarded as deriving not only from their common characteristics but also from their differences.

Some thoughts during discussion

Diversity and discovery in the brain

What is forgotten in the emphasis on "adaptiveness" and "optimality" is that much of behavior is fundamentally exploratory. Even when the task is known, ... the underlying neuronal system seems to be organized so as to explore various ways of achieving that task. To put the matter differently, "play" (and its associated behavioral variability) is not purely entertainment or a luxury to be given up when things get serious. It is itself a highly adaptive mechanism for dealing with the reality that the context for behavior is always largely unknown

Aspects of diversity

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