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Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators
is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and
program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to
inspire and motivate young people about science and technology
learning. The book is aligned with the National Research Council's
new Framework for Science Education, which includes an explicit
focus on engineering and design content, as well as integration
across disciplines. Extensive case studies explore real world
examples of innovative programs that take place in a variety of
settings, including schools, museums, community centers, and
virtual spaces. Design, Make, and Play are presented as learning
methodologies that have the power to rekindle children's intrinsic
motivation and innate curiosity about STEM (science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics) fields. A digital companion app
showcases rich multimedia that brings the stories and successes of
each program-and the students who learn there-to life.
Focuses on the hot-button issue of STEM education and how to
effectively-and equitably-stimulate student interest in STEM fields
Supported by the lead author's extensive speaking schedule and
media contacts Features leading-edge research and practical advice
and provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will
support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to
creative STEM learning Contributions from program developers,
facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers
Focuses on the hot-button issue of STEM education and how to
effectively-and equitably-stimulate student interest in STEM fields
Supported by the lead author's extensive speaking schedule and
media contacts Features leading-edge research and practical advice
and provides appealing and accessible forms of engagement that will
support a diverse range of audiences and deepen their approach to
creative STEM learning Contributions from program developers,
facilitators, educators, exhibit designers, and researchers
Design, Make, Play: Growing the Next Generation of STEM Innovators
is a resource for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and
program developers that illuminates creative, cutting edge ways to
inspire and motivate young people about science and technology
learning. The book is aligned with the National Research Council's
new Framework for Science Education, which includes an explicit
focus on engineering and design content, as well as integration
across disciplines. Extensive case studies explore real world
examples of innovative programs that take place in a variety of
settings, including schools, museums, community centers, and
virtual spaces. Design, Make, and Play are presented as learning
methodologies that have the power to rekindle children's intrinsic
motivation and innate curiosity about STEM (science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics) fields. A digital companion app
showcases rich multimedia that brings the stories and successes of
each program-and the students who learn there-to life.
Scientific thinking and understanding are essential for all people
navigating the world, not just for scientists and other science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals.
Knowledge of science and the practice of scientific thinking are
essential components of a fully functioning democracy. Science is
also crucial for the future STEM workforce and the pursuit of
living wage jobs. Yet, science education is not the national
priority it needs to be, and states and local communities are not
yet delivering high quality, rigorous learning experiences in equal
measure to all students from elementary school through higher
education. Call to Action for Science Education: Building
Opportunity for the Future articulates a vision for high quality
science education, describes the gaps in opportunity that currently
exist for many students, and outlines key priorities that need to
be addressed in order to advance better, more equitable science
education across grades K-16. This report makes recommendations for
state and federal policy makers on ways to support equitable,
productive pathways for all students to thrive and have
opportunities to pursue careers that build on scientific skills and
concepts. Call to Action for Science Education challenges the
policy-making community at state and federal levels to acknowledge
the importance of science, make science education a core national
priority, and empower and give local communities the resources they
must have to deliver a better, more equitable science education.
Table of Contents Front Matter Summary Introduction Why Better,
More Equitable Science Education Should Be a National Priority A
Vision for Better, More Equitable Science Education How Far Are We
from This Vision for All Students? How Do We Get There?
Recommendations How Can We Learn from These Efforts? In Conclusion
References For Further Reading Committee Member Biosketches
Acknowledgments
STEM Integration in K-12 Education examines current efforts to
connect the STEM disciplines in K-12 education. This report
identifies and characterizes existing approaches to integrated STEM
education, both in formal and after- and out-of-school settings.
The report reviews the evidence for the impact of integrated
approaches on various student outcomes, and it proposes a set of
priority research questions to advance the understanding of
integrated STEM education. STEM Integration in K-12 Education
proposes a framework to provide a common perspective and vocabulary
for researchers, practitioners, and others to identify, discuss,
and investigate specific integrated STEM initiatives within the
K-12 education system of the United States. STEM Integration in
K-12 Education makes recommendations for designers of integrated
STEM experiences, assessment developers, and researchers to design
and document effective integrated STEM education. This report will
help to further their work and improve the chances that some forms
of integrated STEM education will make a positive difference in
student learning and interest and other valued outcomes. Table of
Contents Front Matter Summary 1 Introduction 2 A Descriptive
Framework for Integrated STEM Education 3 Integrated STEM Education
Experiences: Reviewing the Research 4 Implications of the Research
for Designing Integrated STEM Experiences 5 Context for
Implementing Integrated STEM 6 Findings, Recommendations, and
Research Agenda Appendix: Biographies of Committee Members
This book is part of the ""Technology, Education-Connections (TEC)
Series"". With federal and local demands for increased
accountability, educators at all levels are now expected to acquire
the necessary skills and knowledge to be effective data users and
decision makers. This book brings together stakeholders
representing a variety of perspectives to explore how educators
actually use data and technology tools to achieve lasting
improvement in student performance. The first comprehensive
examination of the field, this volume introduces the history of
testing and data use, explores current practices and tools, and
presents a groundbreaking model for data-driven decision making.
For many years mothers have been viewed in terms of their impact on
children rather than as people with needs, feelings, and
interests-subjects in their own right. This book explores the
maternal experience from the mother's point of view. It questions a
society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, presents
images of generative and creative women who are also mothers,
discusses the complex psychological experience of having and being
a mother, and examines how representations of mothers in art, film,
literature, the social and behavioral sciences, and historical
writing have affected women. Contents Introduction Donna Bassin,
Margaret Honey, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan Part I: The Acknowledgment
and Appropriation of Maternal Work Thinking Mothers/Conceiving
Birth Sara Ruddick Fictions of Home Jane Lazarre Shifting the
Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing about Motherhood
Patricia Hill Collins The Mothers of the Disappeared: Passion and
Protest in Maternal Action Jean Bethke Elshtain Maternity and
Rememory in Toni Morrison's Beloved Marianne Hirsch Part II: The
Paradoxical Nature of the Maternal Position Being a Mother and
Being a Psychoanalyst: Two Impossible Professions Janine
Chasseguet-Smirgel The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study of
Fantasy and Reality Jessica Benjamin Mothering, Hate, and Winnicott
Elsa First Maternal Subjectivity in the Culture of Nostalgia:
Mourning and Memory Donna Bassin Rosalind: A Family Romance Myra
Goldberg Part III: The Cultural Construction and Reconstruction of
the Maternal Image Images of the Maternal: An Interview with
Barbara Kruger Therese Lichtenstein The Power of "Positive"
Diagnosis: Medical and Maternal Discourses on Amniocentesis Rayna
Rapp The Maternal Voice in the Technological Universe Margaret
Honey Taking the Nature Out of Mother Adria Schwartz Sex, Work, and
Motherhood: Maternal Subjectivity in Recent Visual Culture E. Ann
Kaplan Playing and Motherhood; or, How to Get the Most Out of the
Avant-Garde Susan Rubin Suleiman
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