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Stephanie Fitzgerald

Intro to Motivation - Free College Classes - Psych 101: Introductory Psychology Course - 2 views

education-portal.com/...intro-to-motivation.html

motivation psychology intro video

shared by Stephanie Fitzgerald on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 01 May 12
     
    Here's a little introduction to motivation in psychology that you might find interesting--the other videos on the site are worth a peek, as well (though FYI, they are by no means as fun to watch as TED Talks).
Chris Dede

Digital Learning Day :: Home - 4 views

www.digitallearningday.org

digital learning day ecomobile

shared by Chris Dede on 01 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Leslie Lieman on 01 Feb 12
     
    "Digital Learning Day is a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology that engages students and provides them with a rich, personalized educational experience."
  • Chris Dede on 01 Feb 12
     
    The EcoMOBILE project was featured in the first hour of this webcast. Lots of interesting success stories.
  • Leslie Lieman on 01 Feb 12
     
    Great! Shari showed us parts of the video in her intro to EcoMOBILE... good to see it all the way through. Kudos to other projects too.
Chris McEnroe

Broken STEM: A failure to teach Science, Technology, Engineering and Math | The Connect... - 3 views

www.ctmirror.org/...ngineering-and-math-hurting-us

shared by Chris McEnroe on 04 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • “It suddenly occurred to me that every idea I had memorized or learned or thought I understood in a textbook was actually the result of scientific investigation,
  • “What was missing that it took me so long?”
  • She thinks science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields aren’t taught the right way in the United States
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • “the U.S. tends to have a curriculum that repeats the same topics over and over
  • Data show that American students actually do well in math and science in the early years (http://nces.ed.gov/timss/results07_math07.asp). By 12th grade, however, their performance has plummeted (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind04/c1/fig01-08.htm).
  • Stephanie Fitzgerald on 04 Mar 12
     
    Thanks for sharing this, Chris. It's both interesting and relevant to my project for this course. A comment at the bottom suggested that really the companies need to change their unrealistic minimum criteria for job candidates. I've heard that argument before, and sometimes I do wonder when I see complaints from companies looking only for people with 5+ years of STEM work experience railing on the state of STEM education. What do you think?
  • Lauren Farrar on 12 Mar 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Chris! I can totally relate to this. I remember having to sit through those "weed out" intro biology and chemistry courses in undergrad. They were the antithesis of motivating but I pushed through because I knew without them I couldn't do the "cool science" I wanted to. I remember at the time thinking these courses were weeding out people who were entertaining the idea of a STEM career but just didn't want to put up with the cut throat nature of these courses. It seemed to me the classes were more concerned about weeding out people than by providing an environment that really fostered learning.
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