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        The Internet and the Truth about Science:
        We Gave a Science War But Nobody Came

                    George Meadows
                Mary Washington College

                     Aimee Howley
                   Ohio University

  Abstract
      Even though sophisticated discussion of the nature of
  scientific claims is taking place in the academy, public
  school teachers of science and mathematics may harbor naive
  assumptions about the way that scientific processes function
  to construct the "truth." Reluctant to change their prior
  assumptions about science, such teachers may become vulnerable
  to information technologies (including "low-tech" media such
  as textbooks and films) that construe science as a collection
  of facts. An on-line lesson about constructivism provided a
  forum in which a group of teachers revealed well-established
  epistemologies seemingly inimical to the principles of
  conceptual change teaching. Further, the strategies used by
  the teachers to quell a potentially interesting debate provided
  preliminary evidence of differences in the motives for
  communication in virtual, in contrast to real, communities.


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