Saturday, June 27, 2009

Stories in Math and Science

The Brain as a Storyteller
Facts vs. Stories: A Changing Landscape
"What's unsurprising today would have seemed preposterous just fifteen years ago: an English-speaking thirteen-year-old in Zaire who's connected to the Internet can find the current tempeerature in Brussels or the closing price of IBM stock or the name of Winston Churchill's second finance minister as quickly and easily as the head librarian at Cambridge University. That's glorious. But it has enormous consequences for how we work and live. When facts become so widely available and instantly accessible, each one becomes less valuable. What begins to matter more is the ability to place these facts in context and to deliver them with emotional impact" Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind

Every Test is a Reading Test
Each Student's Story


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