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White House Pushes Science and Math Education - NYTimes.com
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To improve science and mathematics education for American children, the White House is recruiting Elmo and Big Bird, video game programmers and thousands of scientists.
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The campaign, called Educate to Innovate, will focus mainly on activities outside the classroom.
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CS Education in the States | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM
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when Kansas the Board of Regents decided to eliminate computing courses from the core student requirements, we could weigh in with the State. ACM and CSTA sent the board a letter
recommending that they put computer science back in the core.
HP funds Purdue work to recruit, retain engineering students, develop new teaching model
HP funds Purdue work to recruit, retain engineering students, develop new teaching model
Nurturing a love of math, sciences
Teachers have such an influence on whether students leave loving a subject or loathing it
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Yet, in high school, more than 20 percent of students in math and more than 60 percent of students in chemistry and physics are taught by teachers without expertise in these fields. And this problem is only going to get worse; there is a projected shortfall of more than 280,000 math and science teachers across the country by 2015."
Work in the Coming Age
E-learning is more than a new way of doing the old thing. Its outcomes can't be measured by the traditional process.
Attention and distraction - elearnspace
Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Of course, prior to the development of these technologies, we faced a similar challenge of attention - but day dreaming is far hard to detect than someone posting comments on Facebook or Twitter.
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but the approach of blocking software and banning mobiles/laptops in classrooms is simply not sustainable.
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Banning is at best a short term solution that will isolate and agitate the very group education is expected to serve.
Creating Future TEDsters - TED Fellows 2009
Juliette LaMontagne, TED Fellow, discusses the need for teachers to adopt techonology and use it in the learning process. This is key to be able to offer individualized education, foster curiosity and learning on kids.
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I listened intently sure that the secret formula for creating a TEDster would be revealed to me. And I listened with a sense of urgency because my future TEDsters are, at this very moment, sleeping in back row of Life Science class, skipping third period Algebra, and lighting fires in the second floor bathroom.
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They are students for whom school is devoid of relevance, assignments lack purpose, and grades fail to motivate. Students who slide by or fail out develop a preservational mode called I don't care – an especially effective meme prevalent in under-served urban schools.
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The Ph.D process
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"The bachelor's degree proves that you can be trained;
the master's degree indicates some expertise in your field,
and the Ph.D. indicates your ability to become an expert in any field"
Dale W. Callahan - The Ph.D Process - IEEE Potentials
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