Sam Harrelson

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Sam Harrelson currently lives in Asheville, NC and is a Middle School Science and Robotics Teacher at Spartanburg Day School in Spartanburg, SC.

You can find out more about what Sam and his students are doing in the classroom at http://griffinscience.com.

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December 22, 2009

My Favorite Website of 2009...

via aldaily.com

My perennial "Favorite Website of the Year" is once again Arts and Letters Daily, a product of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

If you don't read this site (I'm not talking about via RSS or Twitter... I mean as your start page on each new tab), you're missing out on an amazing learning experience.

I'm going out on a limb and predicting that ALDaily.com will be my favorite site of the year in '10 ("twenty-ten" or "two thousand and ten"?) as well.

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July 26, 2009

The Kids Are Alright

Children are unconsciously the most rational beings on earth," says Alison Gopnik, "brilliantly drawing accurate conclusions from data, performing complex statistical analyses, and doing clever experiments." And not only does empirical work reveal this about babies and small children, but what is thus revealed throws light on some of philosophy's more intriguing questions about knowledge, the self, other minds, and the basis of morality.

via barnesandnoble.com

Beautiful thought-provoking post pertinent for us parents, us teachers and humanity-at-large.

My how we damage kids with our "absolute" truths, marketing, advertisements, career paths and buffets.