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Sunday — March 04, 2012Strengthening K-12 Science Education through Teacher Development--Teaching science is challenging—which is why it's important to help teachers develop their skills and learn new ones. →
As another sort of followup to my post about STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education in the United States and how STEM skills are essential to the current job market, here is a response to the need of improved STEM education on Physics Today. How do you feel about the proposed methods stated? Do you feel that the stem (SEE WHAT I DID THERE?) of the problem starts with the teachers teachers rather than what they are told to teach, which I briefly argued previously? Any Cornell STEM majors in the house who would like to also talk about Cornell’s STEM program?
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Ron Eglash on African fractals
(Source: ted.com)
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Republican War on Science: Hope for the Future?
This is excellent commentary by The Young Turks University on the war against science in America. I highly recommend watching this.
Also, I’m going to tell you right now, I do not want to argue politics with anyone. I have noticed a lack of importance put in science education in general, and although the video focuses on republicans, that might not necessarily support my viewpoints because I just hate arguing with people about this stuff.
This post was reblogged from Insanely Bohred.
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The Young Turks University recently did a video on a submission by a former philosophy student at UC Berkeley on this person’s decision to take a less traditional route with his philosophy major.
Although the video is focusing on the social pressures of choosing a major, I would like to draw attention to this particular submitter and his admirable cause. To elaborate, Autif, a philosophy major attending UC Berkeley, decided not to take the traditional route of getting a law degree or becoming a professor as expected. Instead, he chose to be an elementary school teacher with the specific purpose of introducing students K-5 to logic and reasoning classes.
Although I cannot recall the particular study/article I read about this in the past (I would be glad if someone could direct me to it or something similar so I can make an update), I can say it has been proven that such classes in logic, reasoning, and problem solving in its purest sense, is extremely beneficial to elementary school children. These skills are typically explained to be the byproduct of what a well-done mathematics education is supposed to do to help young children. Having classes that focus specifically on obtaining these skills would not only be interesting, but revolutionary if applied well across the current education system.
So all in all, I would like to dedicate this post to Autif specifically for his efforts. I’m not sure if many people who saw the TYTU video understand the significance of his current goal, but I just want to say I greatly respect you for all you are trying to accomplish.
This post was reblogged from Insanely Bohred.
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The Art of Problem Solving →
To add on to the TED Talk on Complexity leading to Simplicity and loosely to the article on problem solving skills that STEM students earn and why they’re marketable, an interactive chart to problem solving to more or less conclude.
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Students Opting-out of STEM Programs
I would like to share with you guys a series of videos and essays addressing the lack of interest of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) among students in America. It’s an underrated, yet prevailing topic in our society that will affect the future of the country.
Continue Reading Students Opting-out of STEM Programs.
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