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7. Education
Pages 56-59

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From page 56...
... For example, the technology changes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries included the telegraph and telephone, the phonograph, radio, motion pictures, mass printing, and other inventions with profound consequences for science and education. All of these changes in the larger society led to many kinds of changes in education.
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From page 57...
... The mammals are all more closely related, and the horse and cow are more closely related than either is to the mole, and so on. Using Biology Workbench, a user can become an active investigator of the kinds of studies reported regularly in The New York Times science section.
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From page 58...
... Through the Biology Workbench, students were able to find articles online that talked about research that they were investigating. In effect, they entered the scientific community, became participating, practicing scientists, and potentially could make their own contributions to the larger scientific literature.
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From page 59...
... John Dewey, who did much of his writing during that revolution in education of a century ago, challenged people to rethink dichotomies, such as that of school and society. As he did with similar analyses of public and private, individual and social, or child and curriculum, Dewey pointed out that treating those terms as oppositional leads to an impoverished understanding of both.
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