STEM Stuff
Stem Stuff with Bonnie Bracey Sutton
- George Lucas Foundation
- Super computing initiative pays people to go to conferences to learn about technology
- Underachievement grant – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
- Real Life STEM – is reading about the real technology and science – cell phones, computers
- NASA will pay teachers to study science
- Thornberg Center
- all the links are here
- will be up within the week
- tcpd.org
- Math Forum – tutoring for students – free
- Project Interactivate – SHREK is done with computational math – applets to teach kids the math behind movies
- We are spending more time on American Idol, Dance Factory than we are on 21st century learning
- A lot of parents don’t understand the technology that the kids are using
- Norm Augustine “Is America falling off the flat earth?”
- Knowledge divide
- Supercomputing – check out what California is doing
- join this so you can work with researchers talk to teachers
- SC08
- Technology tools we use can level the playing field in education
- Problem solving math
- we shouldn’t be fighting about whether or not to do fractions or if the kids need to do 200 problems to master the content
- Shodor.org
- www.youinnovate21.net
- Resources are a click away
- 2millionminutes
- number of minutes in high school
- trailer on youtube
- great to show at pd
- www.2Mminutes.com
- should we raise the bar and teach to those who want to learn????
- Join a Ning for STEM schools
Until next time ~ Danita
