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How Laser Cutter Brings New Inspiration to the Classroom

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STEM education–Science, technology, engineering, and math–sounds intimidating, but is actually one of the most satisfying learning experiences students can participate in. They try to find new activities, games, toys, tools, or anything that can engage students and help them learn without struggling.

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Bringing Better STEM Education to the Rural South

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Climate change, among many issues, worries Barbara Schneider as she thinks about whether younger generations will be prepared to face scientific challenges altering the world. “I Now the STEM curriculum is poised to enter high school classrooms in the rural South. Other challenges seem to have set back STEM education, too.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. I just could make a bigger difference in education,” he says. Well, I always hesitate to use myself as data.

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What Can Colleges Do Better to Help Latino Students Succeed?

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The number of Latino students who are going to college is on the rise, and they don’t all fit the profile of what institutions might consider the typical freshmen on campus. And I just think we don't ask that question enough, because we're always saying, ‘What do students need to do more of? And what do they need to change?’

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Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive

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He’s applying his research as a creative producer for a new show on PBS called Work It Out Wombats! Today, he’s an assistant professor in learning sciences and STEM education at Drexel University’s School of Education, and he leads the university’s Informal Learning Linking Engineering Science and Technology ( ILLEST Lab ).

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To Get Serious About Games, Teachers Experiment With Play in the Classroom

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Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. I used a game to teach my students about the causes behind the start of the First World War. The idea is to get them to think about the different relationships between angles,” Nardolilli says.

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Why This College Student Created a Coloring Book to Celebrate Black Women in STEM

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In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? The “Black Girls Code the Future” coloring book was created by Nia Asemota, a New York University student and mentor with the nonprofit Black Girls Code. You know what I mean? Then in March 2020, the pandemic hit.