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Tanya Baker

Losing Our Way in the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Acquiring these skills wasn’t a matter of armchair learning. It was a process of getting outside, observing and creating a kind of mental scaffolding to organize my observations. I’m a physicist by training, and the process also reminded me that science was about more than laboratories and calculations.
  • the way I viewed the world had palpably changed. The sun looked different, as did the stars. While the ocean didn’t accommodate my “human” need for meaning, a different sense emerged from the wave patterns that conveyed the presence of winds, shoals, coastlines and distant storms.
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    This is a beautiful opinion piece from the NY Times that makes an interesting argument about how/why we learn science and science-y things.
Tanya Baker

Cisco IoT World Forum Young Women's Innovation Grand Challenge | - 0 views

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    Perhaps of interest to AZ team? "The IoT World Forum Young Women's Innovation Grand Challenge is a global innovation challenge open to young women between the ages of 13-18. The aim of the challenge is to recognize, promote, and reward young innovators as they come up with new uses for Internet of Things technologies."
Tanya Baker

To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science | Budding Scientist, ... - 0 views

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    argues that storytelling should be a part of science, so that students, especially female students, see why/how science is important in the world.
Tanya Baker

Education Week: Common Science Standards Make Formal Debut - 0 views

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    ""Coupling practice with content gives the learning context, whereas practices alone are activities, and content alone is memorization," an executive summary of the standards says. "The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.""
Tanya Baker

The Mammoth Cometh - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    an article on de-extinction. what?!? its a brave (and exciting) new world
Tanya Baker

Category Archives: Experiences and Museums - 0 views

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    this alchemystudio blog captured my attention. many of the posts i was interested in were about curating and/or presenting things in the world in interesting or unique ways.
Tanya Baker

On TV and the Lecture Circuit, Bill Nye Aims to Change the World - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    a biosketch on Bill Nye
Tanya Baker

Around the world without leaving school: virtual field trips take off - LancasterOnline... - 0 views

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    Perhaps of interest to people thinking differently about field trips... and perhaps not...
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