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Science Worth Reading in the New Year
Lisa Randall, a Professor of Physics at Harvard, was Fareed Zakaria’s GPS this morning talking about her new book Knocking on Heaven’s Door. Fareed also interviewed Daniel Kaheman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow. We added a few more recommendations for great science reading in 2012. What's on your reading list?
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Infographic: The Math-Science Shortage
Studies, reports and more over most recent years have stated that we have a shortage STEM graduates to fill the growing demand of jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. OnlineEngineeringDegree.com published an infographic recently on “The Math-Science Shortage,” which looks at the reasons why the United States is failing…
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Infographic: Does America Have the Right Stuff?
Knewton recently published an infographic on STEM Education in the U.S. It poses the question: Does American have the right stuff to produce to the next Pete Conrad, Steve Jobs and others? At the rate we're going with our STEM Education approach, the infographic implies that the answer is simply - no.
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Review: Virtual Labs Provide Increased Access to Learning On a Budget
How many high school, college and university science labs have the opportunity to allow all of its students to experiment with some of the world's most dangerous bacteria, toxic chemicals or explosive materials on the most sophisticated equipment available to science? The answer: very few if not none. That's where Late Nite Labs comes in.
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JEE Releases Guest Editorial On Accelerating STEM Capacity
The Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) released "Accelerating STEM Capacity: A Complex Adaptive System Perspective," a guest editorial by Rick Stephens and Michael Richey of the Boeing Company this July.
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All Kids Should Think Like Scientists
Every secondary student should participate in an annual science fair and show what they know.
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MangaHigh Launches Physics Gaming Site
The successful math games online learning site MangaHigh.com jumps into the fray again with the launch of Physics Games, an online gaming site for physics education.
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The Internet and the Deep Blue Sea
Highly interactive, web-based gaming will be the future of school curriculum. We look at one offering from Filament Games to show you what that may look like. Say hello to "Resilient Earth."
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Putting Science in the Cloud
I'm totally stealing this from ReadWriteWeb, but I think the graphic is worth a look as we begin to talk about how K12 education can lead science into a generation of virtual software and cloud computing that taps into distributed communities.