Candle Lab

You will be give a candle.

Draw a picture of the candle on the index card and then flip the card over. 

Make 20 observations about the candle without using the word: candle or wick.

Once you have that done. Make another set of 20 observations.

On the blank side of the index card draw the candle again WITHOUT looking at your first drawing.

Subversive Cartographies

“To be subversive, is to wish to overthrow, destroy or undermine the principles of established orders. As such subversive cartographies offer alternative representations to established social and political norms. Maps are no longer cast as mirrors of reality, instead they are increasingly conceived as diverse ways of thinking, perceiving and representing space and place which express values, world-views and emotions. Maps are no longer part of an elite discourse: they can empower, mystify, and enchant. More critical assessments of mapping increasingly explore subversive contexts strongly associated with innovative methodological approaches, with mapping seen as an explicitly situated form of knowledge. This shift has been strongly facilitated by the increasing popularity of new media, burgeoning technological change and newly developing mapping spaces (eg OpenStreetMap, WorldMapper and EmotionMap). So subversive mapping has an agency, which can be enacted outside existing cartographic conventions. It has escaped from the grasp of cartographers: everybody is mapping nowadays.”

Another aspect of science is patterns. There a lot of patterns around us. Today we are going to examine some of these by practicing subversive cartography. We are going to pick a bunch of things that don't normally get mapped on campus. You will be asked to make some predictions about what you will find. Go out and map them. Finally we will overlay some maps and see what patterns emerge.

RSA Animate CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

CHANGING EDUCATION PARADIGMS

1. What did you think of the video?  What were some of the main points?

2. What parts of this video do you agree with?  Are they instances in your educational background or experience that were represented in his presentation?

3. What part of this presentation to you disagree with or have some question?

4. Did this video have any impact on you as a teacher and/or learner?

5. Should we consider any part of this video in terms of structuring our learning and class framework?