RUFUS PHILLIPS WILLIAMS: SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, TEACHER

The Teacher Scientist Network

Children often think that classroom science is not ‘real’ science. They also carry a poor image of ‘real’ science and scientists. Ask a group of children to draw or describe a scientist and — apart from portraying the scientist as a middle-aged male, with glasses and wild hair — they nearly always associate him with eccentricity and absent-mindedness, madness even. Worse, the context will often...

Sharing science: characteristics of effective scientist-teacher interactions.

Despite national guidelines to reform K-12 science education, our students are not learning science any better. Conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a symposium examined several programs where professional scientists interact with classroom teachers to improve science education. Symposium participants described their projects and discussed the...

Rufus Cole, 1913

John Phillips

Legal analysis is a multistep process that performs the complex tasks of identifying real world activities through the lens of a predefined legal code and sets of laws. Based on a brief understanding of an issue a legal professional must make a recommendation on where to apply limited researching resources. We employ Naïve Bayes models in a parallel, nonmutually exclusive alignment towards the ...

The Value of an Emergent Notion of Authenticity: Examples from Two Student/Teacher–Scientist Partnership Programs

We make the case for an emergent notion of authenticity of science based on systems theory and neo-Piagetian thought. We propose that authentic science is an emergent property of a dynamic system of learning precipitated by the interactions among students, teachers, and scientists that occur within the contexts defined by the internal and external constraints of the cultures of the schools and ...