User talk:AmandaEP

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We Cannot Allow a Wikipedia Gap!
I just wanted to make sure you knew about this: We Cannot Allow a Wikipedia Gap!. --JWSchmidt 21:39, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Wow, that was a really good article, short but sweet. Thanks for sharing, and I think the thesis of it, in practice, will help everyone make Wikiversity an awesome place! I have been compiling a list of articles from Wikipedia which I would like to include in the School of Zoology in some way, such as, , , , , , , , and quite a few others, such as some of the ones listed in the article you posted here. I have yet to see a history of Zoology @ Wiki, but that does not mean that cannot be addressed through an integration on perhaps the history of Life Sciences, or Biology, et cetera. I truly do feel that when you get into studies of science, you are kinda left in the dark as to why it even came about, let alone from where one's chosen field may have arisen, or what ideas have shaped it. I know I certainly felt that way. When I finally started to learn about philosophy in college, I truly felt like I had stepped out of the Platonic Cave and was blinded by what I saw, not that this was in any way bad after I blinked a few times...lol --Amanda 22:43, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * When I make learning resources here at Wikiversity I tend to make many links to Wikipedia. Sometimes there are also relevant resources at Wikibooks. History of science.....I think there is a very strong bias in much of modern science towards telling the stories of science without any of the historical details. Of course, some people have an interest in the history of science, but in most cases the only recognized requirement is that credit be given to those who first published an idea. In most cases, it is not taken to be important how a discovery was made, only that it was made. In schools, science becomes a pile of facts rather than a coherent historical narrative of discovery. I think if schools spent more time showing the history of science there would be less confusion about what science is, how it works and how it differs from other approaches to understanding the world. One goal here at Wikiversity is to create the conditions by which people can "learn by doing". If science topics are presented from an historical perspective, it is possible to explain a set of methods and results that re-construct an historical point in time just before a key scientific discovery and then you can ask people to perform a task that allows them to experience some of the sense of discovery. --JWS 14:34, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Here here to that! --Amanda 15:30, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * AmandaEP, are you still here? I just now discovered your work on Zoology stuff while doing some routine maintenance. Good stuff. Need more! Will help;) --CQ 05:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)