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Margaret O'Connell

LilyPad microcontroller's success in welcoming women to electronics - Boing Boing - 0 views

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MIT STEM female

shared by Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Our experience suggests a different approach, one we call Building New Clubhouses. Instead of trying to fit people into existing engineering cultures, it may be more constructive to try to spark and support new cultures, to build new clubhouses. Our experiences have led us to believe that the problem is not so much that communities are prejudiced or exclusive but that they're limited in breadth--both intellectually and culturally. Some of the most revealing research in diversity in STEM found that women and other minorities don't join STEM communities not because they are intimidated or unqualified but rather because they're simply uninterested in these disciplines. One of our current research goals is thus to question traditional disciplinary boundaries and to expand disciplines to make room for more diverse interests and passions. To show, for example, that it is possible to build complex, innovative, technological artifacts that are colorful, soft, and beautiful. We want to provide alternative pathways to the rich intellectual possibilities of computation and engineering. We hope that our research shows that disciplines can grow both technically and culturally when we re-envision and re-contextualize them. When we build new clubhouses, new, surprising, and valuable things happen. As our findings on shared LilyPad projects seem to support, a new female-dominated electrical engineering/computer science community may emerge.
  • Margaret O'Connell on 06 Oct 10
     
    The fascinating pdf from the researchers at MIT is linked to on Boing Boing. The comments on Boing Boing are also worth glancing at.
kshapton

RoboCup - International Robotic Soccer Competition - 0 views

www.robocup.org/...objective

soccer STEM education robots robotics competition collaboration

shared by kshapton on 29 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • By mid-21st century, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win the soccer game, comply with the official rule of the FIFA, against the winner of the most recent World Cup.
  • kshapton on 29 Sep 10
     
    An appealing way for students and researchers in the STEM fields to work together and solve a problem- robots that play soccer better than humans?
Megan Johnston

President Obama Launches "Educate to Innovate" Campaign - 0 views

www.whitehouse.gov/...ches-educate-innovate-campaign

Obama administration education policy STEM

shared by Megan Johnston on 23 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Megan Johnston on 23 Nov 09
     
    "President Obama will launch the "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the administration's goal of moving American students from the middle of the pack to the front in science and math achievement over the next decade. The President will announce a series of partnerships involving leading companies, universities, foundations, non-profits, and organizations representing millions of scientists, engineers and teachers that will motivate and inspire young people across the country to excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)."
Katherine Tarulli

Boston area High School receives technology grant from MIT - 1 views

www.boston.com/...rlys_landmark_high_school.html

technology education learning 21st century skils MIT STEM

shared by Katherine Tarulli on 28 Oct 11 - No Cached
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  • Katherine Tarulli on 28 Oct 11
     
    Boston area Landmark High School received a Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant, which seeks to foster innovation and focus on STEM fields. These students will work on creating a water desalination system for countries with low rainfall. This type of project has a lot of potential to develop 21st century skills and teach complex problem solving skills.
Tomoko Matsukawa

Top Ed-Tech Trends: What's Changed from 2011 to 2012? - 1 views

www.hackeducation.com/...-tech-year-in-review-2012-2011

t561 trend

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12
     
    Before he publishes the actual 2012 review, is reflecting on what he wrote one year ago. (the ten things he highlighted last year was the ipad, social media, text-messaging, data, the digital library, khan academy, STEM, higher education bubble, "open", the business of ed-tech) Personally interested in programming literacy part that is expected to be mentioned. Also like the questions presented at the end. 
Mary Jo Madda

Change The Equation - Games that Garner STEM Career Interest - 0 views

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technology education educational_technology online social games

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  • Mary Jo Madda on 25 Nov 12
     
    This is a suite of free online learning games to introduce middle to early high school-age youth to a variety of STEM-based professions -- recently was released at a launch event from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Online Mentoring Program to Encourage Women in Sciences - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...courage-women-in-sciences.html

mentoring sciences women online

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  • Maria Anaya on 17 Sep 12
     
    This is great! I'm very curious to see how this is being used, what types of conversations are being asked, and how and if this turns into longer term mentorships. Our team for Innovation be Design class is looking to create something like this for high school girls already engaged in STEM...so we are looking at the step right before this so making sure that the "interested" girls actually major in STEM fields.
James Glanville

Expand Horizons Through Expanded Learning Time - Global Learning - Education Week - 1 views

blogs.edweek.org/...gh_expanded_learning_time.html

Emerging Technology online learning time

shared by James Glanville on 17 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • Amanda Bowen on 17 Dec 11
     
    The role technology can play in expanding the time during which learning can take place.
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Another article about "expanded learning time" both online and via community-based "brick and mortar" locations like libraries, YMCA, and Boys & Girls Clubs. "Out-of-school programs can be strong partners for schools who want to leverage expanded learning time to help their students achieve global competence. Youth-serving organizations share the broad mission to promote student success in work and life in the 21st century. Out-of-school program organization and management is often based on an asset model that values diversity. In order to attract and retain participants, out-of-school programs are centered around youth engagement through hands-on and experiential learning, often with a focus on 21st century skills, service learning, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and others."
  • Billie Fitzpatrick on 19 Dec 11
     
    I wonder what Helen Haste would think of this organization . . .
Maung Nyeu

Hewlett Packard's Corporate Global Vision | Fast Company - 0 views

www.fastcompany.com/...-their-corporate-global-vision

Emerging Technology technology education learning t561 educational_technology online

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  • Maung Nyeu on 19 Jan 12
     
    Hewlett Packard, Inc. started a global initiative to make the best use of technology to advance STEM.
Maung Nyeu

SETDA Leadership Summit Features U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Marks a Decad... - 1 views

finance.yahoo.com/...mmit-features-u-151500498.html

Emerging Technology technology education learning t561

shared by Maung Nyeu on 22 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Maung Nyeu on 22 Nov 11
     
    Secretary of Education Arne Duncan leads a team to State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Leadership Summit, "Leveraging Technology for Learning." Th panels focus on making shift to digital textbook, increasing broadband access, STEM, assessment, and improving teacher effectiveness - many of these we discussed in our T561 class.
Harley Chang

As Interest Fades in the Humanities, Colleges Worry - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...humanities-colleges-worry.html

technology Education learning t561 educational_technology

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  • Harley Chang on 01 Nov 13
     
    Is the rise of technology the downfall of humanities? The article also talks a bit about new tech tools used in humanities classes on page 2.
  • Josh Tappan on 01 Nov 13
     
    I thought it was interesting to note the shift in focus and interest from a broad "knowledge-based" education to a "career readiness" and skills-based education over the past 10 or so years (probably due to the recession) from students AND higher ed. institutions. Do you think this shift is from student demand for more "practical" majors in STEM fields or policy/institution push to enroll more students in STEM majors?
Uche Amaechi

IBM High School Will Churn Out IT Pros | Fast Company - 3 views

www.fastcompany.com/...ails-about-its-nyc-high-school

shared by Uche Amaechi on 01 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Uche Amaechi on 01 Oct 10
     
    K-14 Stem Schools?
  • rachula on 04 Oct 10
     
    AHA! This is really interesting...I have to say I appreciate the upheaval of something we take as a given--that the system necessarily has to work k-12. A guaranteed associates degree is provocative to think about in a range emerging fields. . .
Cameron Paterson

OECD Inspired by technology - 0 views

www.oecd.org/...45581_46156604_1_1_1_1,00.html

t561 pedagogy

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  • Cameron Paterson on 02 Dec 10
     
    This report highlights key issues to facilitate understanding of how a systemic approach to technology-based school innovations can contribute to quality education for all while promoting a more equal and effective education system. It focuses on the novel concept of systemic innovation, as well as presenting the emerging opportunities to generate innovations that stem from Web 2.0 and the important investments and efforts that have gone into the development and promotion of digital resources. It also shows alternative ways to monitor, assess and scale up technology-based innovations. Some country cases, as well as fresh and alternative research frameworks, are presented.
James Glanville

Measuring Learning in STEM+ Classrooms: Real-Time Formative Assessment at an Engineerin... - 3 views

navigator.nmc.org/...essment-engineering-university

shared by James Glanville on 05 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • James Glanville on 05 Sep 11
     
    I was exploring Navigator, searching for formative assessment links.  I came across an HP Catalyst funded iniative at the Colorado School of Mines.    I'm not convinced that Navigator's map view of tech projects is the best organizational metaphor.
Uly Lalunio

Dyslexia has big differences in English and Chinese - 0 views

www.scientificamerican.com/...post.cfm

learning disability mind brain

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  • Uly Lalunio on 17 Oct 09
     
    "Researchers looking at the brains of dyslexic Chinese children have discovered that the disorder in that language often stems from two separate, independent problems: sound and visual perception. "
Jennifer Hern

Education Week: STEM Defection Seen to Occur After High School - 0 views

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STEM STEM_careers academic_achievement

shared by Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Hern on 01 Nov 09
     
    "Despite popular opinion, the flow of qualified math and science students through the American education pipeline is strong-except among high-achievers, who appear to be defecting to other college majors and fields."
Erin Connors

Colleges Awakening to the Opportunities of Data Mining - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...ortunities-of-data-mining.html

higher education data mining assessment

shared by Erin Connors on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Erin Connors on 25 Sep 12
     
    Arizona State University is using data mining to collect information on their students and help guide them to the "most appropriate major". also, in class, using data collection methods, teachers collect information to be used in assessment Ex: "Ms. Galayda can monitor their progress. In her cubicle on a recent Monday, she sees the intimacies of students' study routines - or lack of them - from the last activity they worked on to how many tries they made at each end-of-lesson quiz. For one crammer, the system registers 57 attempts on multiple quizzes in seven days. Pulling back to the big picture, a chart shows 15 students falling behind (in red) and 17 on schedule (in green)."
  • Maria Anaya on 26 Sep 12
     
    wow this is kind of bothersome on some levels and kinda amazing on other levels. While I can see the benefit of understanding where and how a student is more likely to succeed, I think there are some potential dangers with such a system. There is the what I would imagine the psychological effect of such a program and I am thinking particularly about STEM fields where women are already way under-represented and often self conscious about their performance, do you really also need a system telling you you shouldn't be majoring in that as well cause you're not performing at that point....or what about a student who really wants to be an engineer but maybe hasn't been fully prepared with the appropriate math courses in high school, would he or she be filtered into another major? I understand using such a system as a means to target help for example if a student could get an assessment of where they currently are, where they want to go and how to get there....
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