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What science educators have learned in and out of the classroom to promote student learning and career development, as well as reflections on STEM disciplines, institutions, and professional conduct.

  • Importance of out of school learning
    March 18, 2013

    In your average school, education has become a struggle for teachers to teach and for students to stay interested, let alone keep ahead of the curve. Yet, there is a cry for these kids to stay on top of things not only to get a decent job, but also so to advance fields of science and technology. »

  • Classroom misadventure: The myth of theory
    March 13, 2013

    While teaching at a science education class at Purdue University, the class showed us several popular myths of science that are ingrained in society. While tutoring this week, I decided to research the myth of theories. This myth is essentially the erroneous understanding of the hierarchical relationship stating that facts become hypothesis, which in turn become theories, and only after significant time and evidence do these theories become a law. »

  • Perturbing K-12 STEM: Bill Gates ‘does good’
    March 11, 2013

    I was in Cuba, as it turns out, on a religious-cultural-educational mission watching CNN in my Havana hotel room on an island 90 miles from our shores with which we have no formal relations. I was the advantaged foreigner in a disadvantaged land. Up pops an excerpt of a January 30 interview with Bill Gates talking about what makes a good teacher. »

  • Coding is not just a fad
    March 1, 2013

    Kids and teens programming is everywhere in the news of late. A 12-year-old made a whack-a-mole Justin Beiber iPhone app. Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, declares that New York school systems are adding a software engineering pilot program. »

  • Discussing the future of education with Google's Peter Norvig
    February 15, 2013

    The concept of the conventional classroom is undergoing great change. The online classrom for example, is effectively attracting and engaging students from near and far. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, will discuss the future of education in his topical lecture at the Annual Meeting in Boston on Sunday at 12 noon ET. »

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