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Reflections on the Teaching of Gerbert of Aurillac
(Universitalia, 2010)For one born to French peasants, Gerbert took advantage of exceptional educational opportunities: monastic training at Aurillac; mathematical studies in Spain; tutoring the Pope and Emperor in Rome. Serving Reims cathedral ... -
Review of Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation
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Shadows of Light and History in Explorative Teaching and Learning
(Tipographia Editora Expressa, 2013)Shadows are everyday phenomena that intrigued people in the past and remain accessible today. Shadows and history provided the context for Jab activities among two teachers who participated with me as learners under the ... -
Shaping and being shaped by environments for learning science: continuities with the space and democratic vision of a century ago
(2017)Environments of learning often remain unnoticed and unacknowledged. This study follows a student and myself as we became aware of our local environment at MIT and welcomed that environment as a vibrant contributor to our ... -
The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity
(National Museums Scotland, 2011)Following discoveries of self-induction made by Faraday (1834) and Henry (1832/1835), Harvard medical student Charles Grafton Page took bodily shocks in 1836 from his homemade spiralled conductor while interrupting its ... -
Teaching about the Nature of Science through Historical Experiments
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Time traveling––An intuitive grasp of time takes time
(2011)Seeking to understand the experience of time and instruments of its measure, three students of today traveled in past, present and future in analogy to the Time Traveller of nineteenth century novelist H.G. Wells. Like ... -
“The Trust of Spring – for Eleanor” and illustrations
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Ways of Learning Physics: Magnets, Needles, Fields
(Harvard University, 1995-12) -
A witness account of solar microscope projections: collective acts integrating across personal and historical memory
(Cambridge University Press, 2008)The paper describes the author's witnessing of images projected from an eighteenth-century solar microscope made by John Dollond, now at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Peter Heering facilitated this session as part of his ...