Telling tales: sharing humorous education stories to enhance teacher wellbeing and learning

Telling Tales: Models, Stories and Meanings

ion versus idealisation Applying both the abstraction (physical modelling) and idealisation (system identification) processes to the same situation can often be very revealing. For example, ignoring friction, inertia and compressibility, and using physical reasoning, leads to an integrator model of an actuator. Including inertia and viscous friction, and applying Newton’s Laws, leads to a model...

Using mobile phones to enhance teacher learning in environmental education

Telling stories about stories.

I want to tell you a story. This is a story about stories. As in any good story, we’re going to wander down a few storied paths. One of the paths leads back to 3 award-winning stories.* Remarkable stories by remarkable physicians who take seriously the power of stories—who have written powerful stories. Another path is about the importance of stories for human health and well-being from the per...

Telling Stories

We present in this paper a constrained version of the problem of enumerating all maximal directed acyclic subgraphs (DAG) of a graph G. In this version, we enumerate stories, which are maximal DAGs whose sources and targets belong to a predefined subset of the nodes. First we show how to compute one story in polynomial-time, and we then describe two different algorithms to “tell” all possible s...

Two Telling Tales

I am writing this despite a reluctance to add to the chorus of criticisms of the scientific publication process — an industry full of easy over-generalisations and proposals to discard babies with their bathwater. But a couple of recent publications do, I think, illustrate some recurring problems in the scientific “literature”. One of these is highlighted by the Graur et al. [1] paper in Genome...