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\centerline{MONT 106N -- Identifying Patterns}
\centerline{Discussion Day 1}
\centerline{September 18, 2009}
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{\it Paige Carr and Andrew Coury}
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In class on September 18, 2009, you will be responsible for
about 20 minutes of the class period, during which we will
discuss the article ``Facebook fans do worse in exams"
from the London Times (UK), published
on April 12, 2009.  You can assume everyone will read the article
before class -- the information how to get it is posted on 
the course homepage.  So you don't need to spend a lot of time
summarizing what it says.  Instead, come up with two or three
good questions that you can use to start the discussion, and 
then be prepared to ``moderate'' (maybe answer some
questions if people have not understood some point, 
call on people who have something to say, and so
forth).

I found this by looking at a listing in \emph{Chance News 48} -- 
see link to this on the course homepage.  You will see a discussion 
of the issues in Chance News and several other related articles
that may give you a few ideas of how to get a discussion started.  
And of course, you can talk things over with me before class too.
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