Tues || 9.6: In-class meeting
What does it mean to be a "science" person? What cultural cues exist for children and young adolescents about whether or not they are or are not a "science person"?
□ The Scientific Mind vs. The Public Mind: Are You Smart Enough to Wear a Lab coat? Discussion of observations and questions via the annotations you did prior to our class session.
□ Sorting in, sorting out: children and dinosaurs, math anxiety, and nerd-dom. [video prompts]
□ What do we think about Big Bang Theory? Silicon Valley? Bill Nye, the Science Guy? [video prompts]

week 3 reading
□ Standage, The Victorian Internet, chapters 4-10 [chapters 11-12 optional]

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Online lab session assignment

□ Read your colleagues' first two blog posts and leave comments by Monday, at 10:00 p.m. on September 12th. See instructions on commenting in general, and how we will organize this task in particular on the homepage.