Category: Critical Exploration

Adventures of Pinocchio: Becoming a Real Learner

Pinocchio, the engaging marionette in Carlo Collodi’s nineteenth-century children’s classic, longed to be a real little boy.  Already, Pinocchio was no ordinary puppet. …

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Category: Forum

Grading is: Easy, Difficult, Imperfect, Impossible or Immoral

Much of this comes from an exchange of emails I shared with a colleague. He remains convinced that grading is immoral. As a math teacher, grading is also of great concern to me given the prevailing view of math being …

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Category: Forum

Before it gets even fuller…

(By Zengxu and Yang) Time: Thursday, 7:20 pm, March 17th. Place: Somervile, MA, US, 02143.   We were on the top of Science Center, waiting to see the Mercury, which was of course much harder to find than this magnificent …

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Category: News, Website

Photos from the Launch Party

Photographers: Paula Labbe, Alva Couch and Elizabeth Cavicchi

(Click the images to enlarge them. Keep scrolling down — we’re posting 24 photos in all!)

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