"How many members of the Future of Education are involved with or have an interest in STEM?"
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Vera Saar left a comment for Sachin Gaur"you certainly look like a cheerful person. i'm just checking in to see what other people are doing for education. welcome"
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- Engineer, Animator, STEM advocate, Education Facilitator, Filmmaker, Writer, Thinker (LOL should I say that? Well, it's true)
I am very keen on making education available and appreciated.
The future of education is a constantly evolving area of concern and discussion. As our culture and our definition of culture evolves, we need to be evaluating what is important to teach the next generation.
There was a time when relevance of knowledge was questioned and for some reason the question has been forgotten and caught up in budgetary quagmires run by persons more concerned with quarterly profits rather than the impacts of their decisions thirty years down the road.
There is a myth that having graduated from an institution was sufficient to access employment in one's field. As many people have discovered, this is not true and educational institutions do not tell the students (and their parents) the other ongoing agendas.
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STEM Education Methods
Posted on April 15, 2012 at 1:25am 0 Comments 0 Likes
Are you looking to inspire students to continue with STEM subjects after they graduate?
I have been working on describing a technique which I have used with students that really captures their imagination and nurtures a holistic sense of creativity and empowerment. It doesn't necessarily need high tech, and can work with any group as long as there is paper and pencil. The goal is to encourage…
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- At 11:48pm on July 21, 2011,
Adam Bostock said… - Thanks Vera - for the colleague addition :-)
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