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• human spatial representations also include symbolic, qualitative representations that are grounded in non-symbolic representations, which provide a bridge between perceptual and conceptual knowledge and skills

• Moreover, we believe that building strong spatial skills early can help prevent spatial anxiety, an impediment to success in the STEM disciplines.
• spatialize the existing mathematics curriculum

• Spatial skills are a strong predictor of entry into STEM disciplines in college as well as into STEM careers.  Large representative data sets show this predictive effect even when spatial skills are measured in early adolescence, decades before the STEM outcomes are known
• Research on how to increase the level of spatial functioning in the population could therefore significantly improve the overall effectiveness of the workforce, as well as increase access to STEM disciplines among diverse populations, thereby reducing gender and SES differences in spatial functioning and increasing social equity.

• CSTA is about to revise their standards
• He pointed out that not all states have the capacity to do CS education well, and those that don't, shouldn't even try to make it work.
• We do not have a large evidence base on computer science in K-12 schools, which makes our standards more susceptible to critique.
• Heidi told us that having the National Academies behind the science education framework "inoculated" the standards based on that framework.

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