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STEM Careers Coalition Offering Educators No-Cost Resources to Celebrate Black STEM Leaders During Black History Month

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NC — The STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – presents a curated collection of no-cost content celebrating the careers of Black leaders in STEM for use during Black History Month and beyond.

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Discovery Education, Caterpillar Foundation, and Learning Undefeated Launch New Initiative to Inspire Next Generation of STEM Professionals

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The content will equip students with the right skills and knowledge to pursue STEM careers at home, in the classroom, or wherever learning takes place. Innovation at Play sources STEM creativity and stories from industry experts at Learning Undefeated who have an extensive history of innovation, insights, and leadership.

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Graduate Students Want to Solve ‘Wicked Problems.’ Are Universities Delivering?

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Over the past two years, the College Impact Laboratory at The Ohio State University has surveyed incoming Ph.D. Another student expressed that interdisciplinary work “changed my thinking pattern … to a multi-field view” that helped them synthesize between bodies of knowledge and see other facets of the problems they worked on.

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MEL Science Raises $2.5 Million to Make Lab Experiments a (Virtual) Reality

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The Museum at Chemical Heritage Foundation boasts more than 250 science kits gathered over 100 years to showcase these “miniature laboratories” for children. zSpace is another VR startup that services K-12 school districts providing content for history, anatomy and geography. million in Series A funding from Sistema Venture Capital.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent.

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Should Schools Teach the Scientific Method? New Book Says Maybe Not

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We sat down with Rudolph to talk about the fascinating history of teaching the subject in the U.S., EdSurge: Tell us a little bit about your book, which focuses quite a bit on the history of science. They said, students should work in laboratories and do science to learn science. That was the beginning of the laboratory method.

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Citizen scientists come from all walks of life and have made invaluable contributions to scientific knowledge and understanding. Apart from careful studies conducted in complex laboratories, science also runs on data collection, observations, and statistical analysis.

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