Science Technology Engineering Math Education

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-02

Learning more about what it means to be an engineer http://tinyurl.com/y63veow #

Reading about ideas for fixing STEM education http://tinyurl.com/yg2edyk #
And more from the Carnegie Corporation on extending STEM to more students http://tinyurl.com/lsehrr #
Added some new Talking With Scientists video to the website http://www.stemeducation.org #

From Education Week: US gets poor grades in encouraging diversity in STEM Education http://tinyurl.com/yakyjk4 #
Today on eSchool News: how to get kids interested in STEM Education http://tinyurl.com/yjrfss3 #

Check out the latest Talking With Scientists video: http://tinyurl.com/yzepq6h #
Uploading videos to YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/StemEducation?feature=mhw4 #

Just uploaded a new "Talking With Scientist" video: astrophysicist talks about working with the Mars Lander http://tinyurl.com/ylbu3o9 #
Urquhart is a professor at UT Dallas studying prof dev on reducing student misconceptions in science http://tinyurl.com/ygcc7ro #
Uploading the Talking With Scientists video series to our YouTube site http://www.youtube.com/stemeducation #

From @engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/03/lego-arm-moves-slowly-rocks-mightily-video/ #
RT @boingboing Mr. Wizard premiered 49 years ago, today – Boing Boing http://is.gd/9BSDM He was the original STEM educator! #
Reading about STEM initiatives at MIT http://tinyurl.com/yaolgqy #
Lemelson-MIT focuses on innovation and inventors http://mit.edu/invent/ #
Check out Brain Drain game to learn about inventors and inventions http://tinyurl.com/ylbco2s #
Did you know skateboards were invented as a way to surf on land? #

Stanford prof suggests simulation is the key to math education http://tinyurl.com/yazod4f #
Acc to Devlin, the textbook is perhaps the worst medium for teaching math. Here's Devlin's homepage http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/ #
Devlin has collaborated with artists to present his fav equations thru prose and songs http://www.stanford.edu/~kdevlin/HE.html #
Browsing the resources available from Tennessee http://www.stemresources.com/ #
The Teacher Work Samples include extensive examples of lessons and assessments for STEM instruction http://tinyurl.com/yf7f2y4 #
Just posted a new Talking With Scientists Video: Pardis Sabeti compares science to a video game http://tinyurl.com/yfzxx29 #
Sabeti does genome research at Harvard http://sysbio.harvard.edu/csb/research/sabeti.html #
Pardis Sabeti also plays in a band named Thousand Days http://thousanddays.com/ #
You can hear her singing a song in her office at Harvard http://tinyurl.com/yhbg4ry #
You can learn more about the human genome at National Human Genome Research Institute http://www.genome.gov/ #