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Scott Spargo

Science Behind the Headlines: Education Packs - Royal Institution of AustraliaRiAus - A... - 44 views

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news resources review tools australia science headlines education

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  • Scott Spargo on 22 Sep 14
     
    A collection of resources for Australian science educators which tie scientific concepts to current issues in the media.
Christian King

TechNyou - 3 views

technyou.edu.au

education science tech

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  • Christian King on 11 Feb 12
     
    Funded by the Australia Government a great way for students to explore and research the ethics of current science and technology issues.
  • Christian King on 11 Feb 12
     
    Check out the resources section for a link where you can find resources aligned to the Australian National Science Curriculum. There is some great stuff there if you have a good dig around.
Roland Gesthuizen

Will a teenager combust if you remove their iPhone? - Sustainability education - Blog -... - 43 views

community.tesaustralia.com/...f-you-remove-their-iphone.aspx

teenager sustainability education community blog

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  • Roland Gesthuizen on 13 Aug 13
     
    "Thea Nicholas, Science and Sustainability Educator from the not-for-profit organisation Cool Australia, conducts an interesting experiment by separating teenagers from their technology. Find out how long they last... "
Nigel Coutts

Is STEM the key? - 39 views

thelearnersway.net/...is-stem-the-key

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  • Nigel Coutts on 10 May 15
     
    In June 2014, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Tony Abbott MP acknowledged the significant role that STEM is to play in the nations future. 'There will be significant emphasis in boosting our focus on science, technology, engineering and maths because science is at the heart of a country's competitiveness and it is important that we do not neglect science as we look at the general educational and training schemes.' But what does this mean for schools?
Nigel Coutts

Is STEM the Key? (Part Three) - 26 views

thelearnersway.net/...is-stem-the-key-part-three

STEM learning science

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  • Nigel Coutts on 24 May 15
     
    The message from PwC is clear, Australia needs to take action now if we are not to slip behind the rest of the world. 'Australia is waking up to the fact that the good times can't go on forever. In the face of economic challenges and a digital revolution that's reshaping business and the workforce, we need to act.'
marcmancinelli

Think Again: Education - By Ben Wildavsky | Foreign Policy - 31 views

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  • But when the results from the first major international math test came out in 1967, the effort did not seem to have made much of a difference. Japan took first place out of 12 countries, while the United States finished near the bottom.
  • By the early 1970s, American students were ranking last among industrialized countries in seven of 19 tests of academic achievement and never made it to first or even second place in any of them. A decade later, "A Nation at Risk," the landmark 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, cited these and other academic failings to buttress its stark claim that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."
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      marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
       
      US has long been mediocre or at the bottom of international comparisons, but it's not a zer-sum game
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  • J. Michael Shaughnessy, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, argues that the latest PISA test "underscores the need for integrating reasoning and sense making in our teaching of mathematics." Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, claims that the same results "tell us … that if you don't make smart investments in teachers, respect them, or involve them in decision-making, as the top-performing countries do, students pay a price."
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      marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
       
      People use crises to advance their own agendas...
  • But don't expect any of them to bring the country back to its educational golden age -- there wasn't one.
  • According to the most recent statistics, the U.S. share of foreign students fell from 24 percent in 2000 to just below 19 percent in 2008. Meanwhile, countries like Australia, Canada, and Japan saw increased market shares from their 2000 levels, though they are still far below the American numbers.
  • And even with its declining share, the United States still commands 9 percentage points more of the market than its nearest competitor, Britain.
  • A 2008 Rand Corp. report found that nearly two-thirds of the most highly cited articles in science and technology come from the United States, and seven in 10 Nobel Prize winners are employed by American universities. And the United States spends about 2.9 percent of its GDP on postsecondary education, about twice the percentage spent by China, the European Union, and Japan in 2006.
  • But over the long term, exactly where countries sit in the university hierarchy will be less and less relevant, as Americans' understanding of who is "us" and who is "them" gradually changes. Already, a historically unprecedented level of student and faculty mobility has become a defining characteristic of global higher education. Cross-border scientific collaboration, as measured by the volume of publications by co-authors from different countries, has more than doubled in two decades.
  • marcmancinelli on 27 Feb 11
     
    A great perspective piece on American education compared to the world.
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