Teach Network Science to Teenagers
Physics Education
2013-02-28 v1 Social and Information Networks
Combinatorics
Popular Physics
Physics and Society
Abstract
We discuss our outreach efforts to introduce school students to network science and explain why networks researchers should be involved in such outreach activities. We provide overviews of modules that we have designed for these efforts, comment on our successes and failures, and illustrate the potentially enormous impact of such outreach efforts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.6567,
title = {Teach Network Science to Teenagers},
author = {Heather A. Harrington and Mariano Beguerisse Díaz and M. Puck Rombach and Laura M. Keating and Mason A. Porter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.6567},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
13 pages of main text (with 5 figures) + supplementary online material containing additional teaching materials; the SOM is available at http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~porterm/research/harringtonetal2013-SOM.zip ; submitted to 'Network Science' as an editorial