Teach Network Science to Teenagers

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 pote...

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Principais autores: Harrington, H, Díaz, M, Rombach, M, Keating, L, Porter, M
Formato: Journal article
Publicado em: 2013
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Resumo: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.