TCC200R
SIMSCI Log and Essay
You should keep track
of three things:
What you did, and
when. This includes all activities, documents and discussions that you
had.
What your group did,
and when. Sometimes you do not know everything your group is doing, but
report what you can. What was the division of labor (if any)?
These group and individual
observations can be combined, depending on your role in SIMSCI.
Reflect on what you and
your group did. What aspects of your processes worked well? What worked
poorly, or was frustrating? What is your impression of how you and your
group fit into the overall SIMSCI? Did any of the readings help you understand
what was going on in SIMSCI?
Your essay should emerge
directly from your log, and should cover these same three topics, with
more emphasis on the readings. You might, for example, compare SIMSCI to
what happened in the Great Devonian controversy, or in the cold fusion
case. You can consider SIMSCI in the light of arguments about in vivo and
in vitro simulations in 2.3. To what extent does it resemble actual science?
What are some of its artificial features? How could it be altered to simulate
other aspects of science?