

This is a small drop in the bucket when compared to the number of students in my district who take physics annually. If we're generous, we could double it to take into account the students who took the course last year. My physics network might be limited to only those fifteen students who are in that class with me. The number of physics' student networks at my school might be limited to one per year, if my school only happens to offer one physics class per year. Again, much of what we do reinforces what happens at the School->Classroom level.


This is a very intriguing chapter, but mostly because of how foreign it feels to the school and classroom environment where we actively discourage most of our students from maximizing the diversity of their potential networks. Fitting Our Tools To A Small World or how links between small-scale networks help facilitate the formation of resilient large networks.
