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Title: Reflexive Curation: Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Accident, Risk, and Medium in the Collectively Curated Collection, Reflexive Curation
Description: The systems we use to record, communicate, and safeguard knowledge and experience, including our increasingly distributed and coordinated systems of curation, themselves increase complexity and risk, which will not be reduced, overall, by new or additional knowledge or technology. We must be careful not to overestimate what we think we know about the functioning of these complex systems, or to extrapolate too confidently from current trends.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5074

Title: Review of Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Description: Review of the book Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up, by David Colander and Roland Kupers (Princeton University Press, 2014).
Date Created: 2020
PID: grinnell:27807

Title: Revisiting Fisher's Tea Tasting Lady, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 91-009
Description: Revisiting Fisher's Tea Tasting Lady
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26701

Title: Scholarly Communication and Liberal Arts College Libraries
Description: Scholarly communication, in addition to referring to the disciplinary practices that structure the dissemination of scholarly knowledge, has become shorthand for two meanings: on the one hand, it refers to an analytic "author/reader" framework that seeks critical understanding of the entire life cycle of scholarly knowledge and the connected roles of researchers, teachers, students, funders, libraries, publishers, and other kinds of agencies in the creation, dissemination, critique, reuse, and preservation of knowledge.
Date Created: 2012
PID: grinnell:5075

Title: Science Education and Quantitative Literacy, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 94-002
Description: Science Education and Quantitative Literacy
Date Created: 1994
PID: grinnell:26704

Title: Screenshots from a Bodies in Public Spaces presentation
Description: Screenshots from a Bodies in Public Spaces presentation by Celeste Miller.
Date Created: 2018
PID: grinnell:27861

Title: Setting a Course: Using Google Forms for Navigating Metadata for Digital Projects.
Description: Working with faculty and staff to create digital projects requires a complex group of skills and activities. Potential collaborators often jump to the end vision without fully grasping the need for proper description & metadata. Using Google Forms & Sheets is perceived as neutral and less frightening than working in a repository platform or using other proprietary productivity software.
Date Created: 2017
PID: grinnell:18460

Title: Signs of Life: Critical Thinking Beyond Critique in Religious Studies and the Humanities, Critical Thinking Beyond Critique in Religious Studies and the Humanities
Description: Ever since Religious Studies emerged as a distinct area of inquiry in the 1960s and 1970s, scholars in the field have worried about its academic legitimacy. To put it a bit simplistically, they've worried about what constitutes the difference between teaching religion and teaching about religion.
PID: grinnell:6379

Title: Social Context and the Spread of HIV: A Game-theoretic Investigation on Impacts of Social Stigma and HIV Education on Epidemic Outcomes, Game-theoretic investigation on impacts of social stigma and HIV education on epidemic outcomes
Description: Article providing a theoretical foundation for analyzing how social stigma and adopted behavioral traits affect the transmission of HIV across a population.
Date Created: 2014
PID: grinnell:11646

Title: Some Favorite Data Sets: Using the Computer on Real Data in Class, Statistics in the Liberal Arts Workshop (SLAW), Technical Report No. 90-007
Description: Several real data sets are described and their use in a variety of applied courses at the college level are illustrated. All of the data sets are significantly large to require analysis by computer and provide a rich setting for students to investigate a variety of questions. Some different strategies for organizing student explorations of the data will be discussed.
Date Created: 1991
PID: grinnell:26690