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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
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  • “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.
kshapton

Virtual Reality Games Aid in Stroke Rehabilitation | Stroke Therapy | Physical Therapy ... - 0 views

www.myhealthnewsdaily.com/-recovery-rehabilitation--1360

stoke virtual reality therapy recovery mirror neurons

shared by kshapton on 11 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • kshapton on 11 Apr 11
     
    A meta-analysis finds that virtual reality may improve recovery in stroke patients.
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