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252: Does your school link STEM and Sports?

The Thinking Stick

On this episode we learn about the connection between sports and STEM. Our special guest is CEO and President of STEM Sports: Jeff Golner. StemSports.com is a leading website dedicated to exploring the intersection of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with sports.

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Digital Learning Theories and Frameworks to Elevate Instruction

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! According to McIsaac and Gunawardena (2001), we must consider the following four concepts essential to effective distance learning for our students, which are transactional distance, learner control, social context, and interaction. Picciano McIsaac, M. Distance Education.

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STEM Education for Future Career Growth: More Essential Than Ever in the 2020’s

EmergingEdTech

STEM is more fundamental and essential than ever Back in 2001, the National Science Foundation introduced the acronym “STEM”, standing for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Top 5: Rebooting the Oral Exam Tops Most-Read List for October 2023

Edsurge

How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist : Since winning the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, Carl Wieman has devoted the bulk of his energies to trying to improve teaching. Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt? Will the ideas catch on?

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Let’s invest in black kids who pursue STEM the way we do black kids on the football field

The Hechinger Report

It’s a prime event to draw attention to black talent in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Investment in black STEM workers and entrepreneurs is not only an investment in the black workforce, it’s an investment in the growth of the economy. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

User Generated Education

2010; Cowan, 2012; Lohr & Haley, 2018; Sadera et al., 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). and from ASCD: A growing body of research confirms the benefits of building a sense of community in school.

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Colleges now produce fewer Black graduates in math and engineering

The Hechinger Report

Black enrollment in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering and math — is among the issues that urgently demand attention, said Cato Laurencin, CEO of the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. “We Related: Successfully replicating the Meyerhoff STEM scholars program.

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