Agneta Bostom http://www.chemistrynarratives.com/research.html gave a very interesting talk on ‘How narrative from lived experience facilitate learning in chemistry’. Lots of the science students she spoke to felt there was no place for storytelling in chemistry but them told stories which explained their interest in chemistry or in certain aspects of it. Made me think of Primo Levi’s ‘Periodic Table’, a book of stories related to chemical elements.

Laura Korte http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/s0235396/ talked about how students learn about programming by designing games. Did seem a fun way of learning.