Amazing web site.

http://extremeicesurvey.org

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AK-01 Columbia Kadin Narrated from Extreme Ice Survey on Vimeo.

Working on a C.L.E.A.N. boot camp review material for www.cleannet.org

amazing resource of cool climate related applets.
http://www.explainingclimatechange.ca/Climate%20Change/Lessons/applets/appletsL4.html

All

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Applet/Digital Resource	Format	Lessons Used
Arctic Sea Ice Over the Last 30 Years	Video	Lesson 5
Audio Feedback	Applet	Lesson 7
Carbon Cycle	Applet	Lesson 6, 7, 8
Carbon Stabilization Wedges	Applet	Lesson 9
Climate Model	Applet	Lesson 5
Climate Trends	Applet	Lesson 2, 5
CO2 and Ocean pH	Applet	Lesson 8
CO2 Concentrations Over 6 Months	Video	Lesson 6
Collisional Heating	Applet	Lesson 3
CO2 Footprint	Applet	Lesson 9
Coral Bleaching in the Caribbean	Video	Lesson 5
Earth's Atmosphere	Applet	Lesson  1, 3
Earth's Radiation Balance	Applet	Lesson 4
Electromagnetic Spectrum	Applet	Lesson 3
Eyjafjallajökull Eruption	Video	Lesson 4
Gaseous Molecules vs. Temperature	Applet	Lesson 3
Great Ocean Conveyor Belt	Video	Lesson 8
Historical Temperatures	Applet	Lesson  1
Hurricane Katrina	Video	Lesson 5
Ice Core Extraction and Analysis	Applet	Lesson 2
IR Windows Applet	Applet	Lesson 3, 6
IRMS Applet	Applet	Lesson 2
Keeling Curve Graph	Graph	Lesson 6
Marine Food Web Video	Video	Lesson 5
Molecular Interactions with Electromagnetic Radiation	Applet	Lesson 3
Ocean Trends	Applet	Lesson 8
pH Calculator	Applet	Lesson 8
pH Indicator	Applet	Lesson 8
pH Indicator	Video	Lesson 8
Planetary Climates	Applet	Lesson 4, 7
Polar Ice Cap Measurement	Applet	Lesson 7
Sea Shells and Carbon Dioxide	Video	Lesson 5
Shell Dissolving	Video	Lesson 8
Visualizing Global Climate Change	Applet	Lesson 5
Water Cycle	Animation	Lesson 6
Water Vapour Equilibrium	Applet	Lesson 6
Water Vapour Pressure vs. Temperature	Graph	Lesson 6

Gotta Love PhET

http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/my-solar-system/my-solar-system_en.html

cool graphic 2008

Amazing resource for early educators. STEM - from Boston Children's Museum

http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/STEMGuide.pdf

Capital Hill STEM Diversity Event

Rev Jackson In Action

Going strong

Rainbow Push Coalition and Rev. Jackson

I was invited to attend the Rainbow Push Coalition, by my friend Jineea Butler.  The Reverend Jesse Jackson spoke on many issues, videos to come shortly.  While he spoke he talked about many important topics, but it just so happen that he also waded in on the debate over the name of the Washington Redskins.

 I was given this article by his chief of staff.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT

THE NAME “REDSKINS” IS OFFENSIVE AND MUST CHANGE

By The Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

The name of the NFL’s Washington Redskins must be changed.  It must also be clear that changing the name of the team is not an attack on the team, its fans or players.  A remake should not distract DC’s love of their football team.  In fact, it should enhance it.

It’s important that people understand the origin of the name Redskins. As our country was being expanded westward and land forcefully taken, stolen, from Native Americans - and they resisted - bounty hunters were paid to bring in dead Indians.  They brought the bodies in wagons.  Soon this became so cumbersome that the bounty hunters were told to just bring in the Indian’s head.  They brought in so many heads that this too became burdensome.  So they were finally instructed to just scalp the Indians and bring in the “Redskins” and they would be paid their bounty.

When I was young and watching westerns on television and at the movies, the cowboys needed to be afraid because, according to the dominant narrative, if they didn’t remain on guard the Indians might scalp them.  We now know the truth is the exact opposite.

Clearly the African American community would not tolerate a sports team named the Cleveland Hangers (with a rope as its logo), Hispanics would not countenance the Chicago Spics and Caucasians would not abide the Atlanta Gringos.  Since sports team names can be affected by political pressure and economic boycotts – i.e., numbers count - most think such offensive American Indian sports team names continue to be accepted by team owners simply because there are not enough Indians.

In addition to American Indian names, an ongoing concern is the use of American Indian mascots by high schools, colleges and professional sports teams that offend – offend traditions and religious symbols of our native population.  There has been progress in changing some of this.  The New York Times recently reported that nearly 70% of the approximately 3,000 sports teams that previously used Native American mascots have voluntarily ended the practice.  But there are still sports team names that many American Indians find offensive – e.g., Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Chiefs and Atlanta Braves, but especially the tomahawk chop that accompanies the name.

Clearly, out of all these names, the most egregiously offensive team name by far is the Washington Redskins.  This team name cannot even be remotely compared to the other team names that some Native Americans find offensive.  “Redskins” is of a different offensive order altogether.

Pressure on Washington’s team owner to change the name is growing.  President Barack Obama said in a recent interview that if he were the team’s owner he would strongly consider changing it.  Reed Hundt, a former Chairman of the FCC, has urged broadcasters not to use the team’s nickname when reporting.  Some print reporters are following suit.  Bob Costas did a commentary against it at halftime on the recent Sunday Night Football game between Dallas and Washington.  It’s been reported that, privately, many of Washington’s football players are embarrassed and uncomfortable with the name.  The other NFL team owners were confronted with this issue in a recent peer meeting.

Washington’s team owner, Daniel Snyder, so far, has taken a position similar to former Alabama Governor George Wallace in the 1960s with regard to segregation.  Wallace said,  “Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”  Mr. Snyder has vowed to “never” change the team’s racist name.

It’s not as if Washingtonians haven’t undergone a popular sports team name change before.  Abe Pollin, who owned the Washington Bullets, changed the name to “Wizards” because he considered the “bullet” symbolism offensive.  Times change and some things past should be left there.    

With “Sambo” and other experiences of offensive names, a city with an African American majority should be especially sensitive to this issue.

There was a time in the South that African Americans weren’t allowed to attend legally segregated Caucasian colleges or universities as students or student-athletes.  But from Jim Thorpe to Jackie Robinson to Minnie Minoso to Roberto Clemente to the Williams sisters to Tiger Woods, we’ve fought to “let in” people of color and break down racial barriers in sports, and we’re making progress.

The challenge, however, is not only to “let in” people of color, but to “take out” of sports racially derogatory names, symbols and practices.

Some defenders of the Washington football name like to site polls that show most Americans are not offended by the name.  But most Americans don’t know this story.  If they did I believe they would side with the Oneida Indian Nation that is leading this effort and be willing to change the name.  People of color are now included in sports.  But it’s past time to “take out” racially insensitive sports names and symbols that are offensive.

Recent Events

http://corporate.discovery.com/discovery-news/discovery-communications-and-stemconnector-hold-ca/

http://www.rainbowpush.org/

http://storify.com/STEMConnector/discovery-communications-stemconnector-capitol-hil

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-200.html
Lunch at the LOC for the Carl Sagan Celebration

Carolyn Porco - Can you believe it.....The Pale Blue Dot lead Cassini Imaging.

More pictures later!

Montana Coffee

What a group of down to earth gentlemen.  I can say that I was a bit surprised but honestly very happy.

A Celebration of Carl Sagan at the Library of Congress

Today I was honored to attend a special invitation event at the Library of Congress to celebrate Carl Sagan.  Speakers included Seth MacFarlane who wondered out loud why evolution deniers don't also question gravity an equally accepted scientific theory.  Neil deGrasse Tyson reminded us all the Carl was in the room with us as long as we try to educate people about science in a civil and engaging way.  Ann Druyan Carl's wife and life partner talked about 20 revolutions around the sun they shared together and his laugh which is traveling out in to the cosmos on the voyager spacecraft.  The same voyager space craft that Carolyn Porco reminded us of Carl's reasons for wanting to photograph A pale blue dot.  She unveiled the newest Pale Blue Dot recently taken by Cassini in July 2013.

Need Carl Sagan say more.


He worked his life energy to help help humanity come together and grow.  His friends remember him as both a humble and great thinker.  Observers like myself see a superhero of unparalled passion, drive and knowledge.

JMU Seminar - Presentation

Radio Astronomy Field Trip to Green Bank WV

This week we had the amazing opportunity to spend 3 days at National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank W.V. 

We toured the control areas of the facility, operated a 40 foot radio telescope, climbed up the largest equitorial radio telescope in the world, bonded over some amazing karaoke and were given incredible instruction by the staff. 

My understanding of radio astronomy has increased by at least 10 x 26th janskies.

Signing off 1420.41.

Traingle Coalition STEM Conference

Anyone interested in STEM Education Policy should be a member of the Triangle Coalition.  This event is astounding. What a panel of speakers.

There were really too many notable speakers to name them all.  But one person whose work has greatly influenced me after reading her paper is Dr. Andresse St. Rose - who cowrote -
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

I also had a personal epiphany during the conference.  I believe the more we talk about STEM being a white male dominated field the more harm we do, as we reinforce the idea that it is a scary place for a woman or minority to want to invest years of study.  Rather we should be simply focusing on the rewards of STEM and on each individuals capabilities.  We need to never utter the STEMism of White Male Dominated again. Let it die with the problem and lets just address the solution.


www.eie.org  is doing incredible things for elementary STEM Ed.


Here is a photo with The Honorable Dot Harris, Director, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity who gave a rousing speech on her life story and the need for us to address issues facing diversity in STEM.

Rayburn House of Representatives

Today I got my hair cut and shoes shined in the Rayburn Building.  What an experience. The walls of the barber shop were covered with photos of many present and passed who had graced the halls of Congress.

                                   these are the fountains right beside 

Rayburn

this is the view from the front of the Rayburn building.

American Institute for Research - Symposium on PIAAC

Attended 

 AIR symposium 

The Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

the results from PIAAC are coming out Tuesday 10/8/2013 expect more posts on this topic.

The results should allow a much greater understanding of workforce needs and gaps. This is the missing piece from the TIMSS and PISA studies.  We now have a full range of data to use to improve our points of entry and improvement. 

Thanks to my DOE EERE fellowship sponsor Linda Silverman for inviting me. 

Week #1 as A.E.F.

It is official.  I now have a badge and access to the Department of Energy - working in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.   Today as I commute on the metro I see the Washington Monument and am filled with a sense of joy knowing that I am about to work on national education efforts towards a more energy efficient and renewable energy society.

I stand up straight and get lost looking out the window as we cross the Potomac River.  I am living my dream. Ever since I was a little boy I wanted to be a teacher, like my mother, father, grandfather and uncle.  I also have wanted to play an important role in shifting our society towards a more green and environmentally sustainable future.

How will this experience be for my family and what is next keeps rolling through my head?

Before my first week even began the ball was already rolling towards a unique educational future path as I attended the S.C.L.C conference prior to the March on Washington 50. Then joined the Urban League for some pre march speeches.  I had a chance to go the Challenger Center event at the Senate Building where I met so many incredible people.  Especially my good friend and first science education mentor Mary Liscombe.  My family has gone to many a museum, attended the Costa Rica independence day festivities at the Ambassador's house and settled in.


See photos of the first few weeks prior to the start of AEF 2013-2014

orientation week

 first trip to Air and Space
 

library of congress

challenger center event 

SCLC - The Reverend Jesse 

50th anniversary March

Dont text and metro

Today I got on the wrong metro because I was texting while metro ing, I highly recommend you don't try this at home.

8/23/2013 MLK 50 - SCLC and Rainbow Push Convention on Poverty - The night I prayed with Reverend Jesse Jackson

I arrived to the introduction of Reverend Jessee Jackson.  I took a seat in the very front. He began by telling a story of the last meeting with Dr. King before the March.  The message he said was he was tired and had a migraine and felt like he couldn't go on.  That his own friends were rallying against him. He continued to talk about the reason for the March on Washington was for Legislative Action and that today 50 years later we shouldn't be marching in memory and nostalgia - we should be demanding legislation for the 15th amendment to be explicit in its right to vote.  He spoke about how President Carter who monitors elections worldwide can't monitor our own elections because there are different rules in  every state.  He said you can ref a basketball game in Chicago or L.A. to the same rules.  But you can't vote with the same rules.
The panel which included 4 congressmen and women from the national black Caucus including Rep John Conyers all conveyed their understanding of the meaning of it being 50 years since and that the fight continues.  There was lots of talk about voting rights in Texas and Nevada and other states in light of the recent supreme court ruling now taking back on the progress that has been made.  Rep Jackson was adamant about the idea that because black people turned out in such high numbers and so did Latinos for the President Obama that gerrymandering and new voting rules are attempting to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands.

I was sitting next to Jineea Butler- hall of fame basketball player from New Jersey Long Beach College who is making a difference everyday by innovating and blazing her own path.  She has started a we discussed both being coaches and also having a similar mission for STEM education.  We plan on reconnecting.

I talked to Darnell Moore whose poetry has been highlighted by President Obama he is a writer, teacher, activist who writes for feminist magazine among many other.  We spoke about teaching and about feminism. He asked me to write about WOMEN IN STEM for his publication.  Or did I ask him?

I spoke to Allen Shae who had just met with Mark Cuban for his 5 different inventions.

Lastly I asked Rep John Conyers the founding member and dean of the CBC congressional black caucus.

Reverend Jackson closed the evening with a prayer for the people who lost their life in the struggle. People like .....

Notes on Day - Broadening Access and Participation in STEM Education Through Technology: Promises and Challenges.

http://aaaspolicyfellowships.org/madteched-symposium

women tech makers -
developer culture -
GOOGLE IO - techy parties around the world..  TEDeX meeting twice a day.
momentum of people getting together.

digitally adjacency
to someone -

how are we collaborating with the collective talent - to cause amazing things to happen in EDUCATION?
www.ngram.googlelabs.com
can search trends in words

interesting idea - against violent extremism - conference - save  conference summit against violent extremism - once they met - they are now digitally connected personally.

violence against women - www.onebillionrising.org

We are networked like crazy except where we are not? Africa - 900million talented people not in the conversation.

innovation in mobile phone is changing Africa - yet most is text and voice  - not data -

GOOGLE project LOON - balloon project

Kenya - mpesa - best mobile phone payment markets

www.Ushahidi.com used during crisis response

new media companies emerging - (my idea for ......collaboration ed center)

instead of people bringing idea in a missionary way - we can go to places and find the amazing resources, the entrepreneurs in location to rise.....

Dr. Marian Wolf of Tufts and Negraponte - bring android tablets to places where no body can read.

research question - for the kids on the most extreme edge can they teach themselves and then join-

winners oof google science fair - let them connect

EDUCATION
Course Builder

How do we help our master teachers help us

Figure out how to get master teachers disrupt from within....using technologies to integrate and get these teachers connected.

ex: Kahn Academy

Watch Daphnew Koller's ted talk - about personalized learning. - can we move the content to homework time. flipped learning. 

1st robotics - amazing - nationals - 10 % of incoming MIT class does First Robotics

How do we leverage the technology to get the content of the lecture out of the classroom and get the debate, hands on theater, more fun stuff into the classroom.

PROJECT BASED LEARNING!

In Effort there is Joy - quote of 3rd grade teacher - Laura Burgess

No longer have science class - now call it Project Time

21st century is less at about content and about learning to learn, collaboration, inclusion, academic passion, etc.

Inclusion - we teach in a way that only gets a certain group of kids excited.

Harvey Mudd solved the problem of computer science having women involved - they made it a mission to solve it and they did this by addressing the stereotypes
1. kids didn't understand the impact of CS on the world. ex - the mobile phone has had the largest impact on poverty.
2. give them more applications
3. they made 2 tracks - one for kids with lots of experience and one track for kids who don't have any
4. taught the kids who were showing off to be helpful - rise to management to change the culture
5. got kids into industry fast - helped them have internships to get experience
6. children's television is 3-1 men on screen - no characters that play any type of STEM role on television.

Get textbooks to highlight the important roles of minorities in discovery - they were there.

Kathrine Johnson - calculated the trajectories for NASA

we need to know about the women's accomplishments
same with minorities
www.Makers.com
makers@google.com

what if kids got to make moonshots from elementary school -
ideas, prototypes, projects, products/business
why can't school be design thinking - start business
10x, not 10%
2/3 of the time say YES AND 1/3 say YES BUT
meaning how can we help more often critique less often

WHATS YOUR <X> what's your passion?

How do you implement all this in the current culture on math and reading.

In Vietnam they are starting computer programming at 2nd grade

googlegeist

my question about -hoo to get the minorities into text books - she answered- more films like ARGO in Hollywood.....get producers involved.

Single out a single educational technology -

WEB!

How to make web safe for kids -

www.Epals.com  - classrooms network

YouTube EDU - green labeled for use in education

Ester Wajyski - journalism teacher - has flipped her classroom - best teacher in America -

most of the real innovation in education in the youtube - apps for edu - shared collaborative docs, instead of kids said don't copy - focus on cloud based.

couple specific groups that do stem outreach -
www.CODE.org
to get all kids to be digitally literate -

?for Megan Smith - what avenues are you taking to get Hollywood to display more + STEM role models?
MOOC and ONLINE EDUCATION

SRI International -
adoption of online courses has outpaced research on HOW TO IMPLEMENT TO LEARN MOST EFFECTIVELY

Studied fully online courses

www.sri.com report - Supporting K-12 Students in Online Learning - A review of algebra 1 courses.


key findings:
a need to clarify common core alignment and methods for assessing it.
more in-system support for at risk students
leverage system data

Online Education in Community Colleges -
by Shanna Smith Jaggars
students who take online courses do worse.
2/3 of community college students are not academically prepared and have to take development courses.
most taking online are white, prepared and $advantaged

Nick Martin Founder and CEO of TECHCHANGE

http://techchange.org/

design online courses and learning management system
 -puts mobile learning first


Panel - similarities and differences between online Ed and MOOCs
MOOC  - impossible for instructor to assist students

flipped MOOC - access content at home and then come into class and discuss

MOOC is one aspect of online learning.

how to create a MOOC based on constructivist educational practice - instead of 1 expert sage on the stage.

There is potential in MOOC for informal learning and networking - but it is just beginning.

Georgia Tech is working on a 6,000 degree through a MOOC

AT the heart of MOOC - IS THIS GOOD LEARNING?

Lots of concerns about the quality of pedagogical approach and content coverage.

Seems a lot more review and formal procedures needed to give a level of certainty about the learning.

Are there certain disciplines and students that work best for MOOCs?
Self Confident Autonomous Learners.
Online Courses assume this level of confidence - are self selecting - and don't help build this confidence.

Also self selects for attention spans.
MOOCs are so boring.
Online learning needs to compete with cognition aspects and make the MOOC videos shorter!
Most student in traditional classroom don't teach self directed learning.
We need to develop the skills to
assumptions about technology skills as well.

Average age are older and more confident.

Follow the Universal Guidelines for Learning.

POLICY and Practice Recommendations

1. move away from one size fits all.
2. understand certain approaches work better for different group of students
3. build in adaptability and flexibility to personalize the learning
4. advocating onsite support
5. On site mentor for additional support to complement
6. IN PLACE Support
7. We should slow down, not outpace the research. Ex: California - move to have all colleges accept credit from ANY online course provider. This notion is flawed since we don't know how effective these courses are.
8. Shift to a competency model instead of hours model.
9. We are stuck on the idea that a degree is this many hours in a classroom - instead demonstrate knowledge to show you have passed learning.
10. potential for DATA on how we learn is amazingly huge for MOOCs.
11. build in more opportunities for building in communities.
12. need to feel connected.
13. create links in and among students.
14. capturing data on who is taking classes is the great potential - but this is not happening.
15. take a step back from looking at individual products - look across courses for the essential features for student success.
16. ex. virtual coach, virtual manipulative, discussion board,  etc
17. look at courseware data about engagement and time used for manipulative.
18. design and aesthetics are so important to participation - gamification in k-12 learing.
19. great course at UPENN about gamification.
20. Using virtual avatar

The MOOCs ability to flatten the field for learning for minorities, yet this is not currently the case.

MOOCs are broadening access for students who work and have kids.


WE NEED TO PAIR ACCESS WITH SUCCESS - otherwise we create a viscous cycle

My Idea - how about MOOCs for teacher training on 21st century teaching.

www.generationrwanda.org take moocs at night and then go to class everyday.

we need to incentivize motivating students through their entire career instead of dropping out or instead of as MOOC myopic focus of cheapening the cost of education solely.


Stanford education labs - is doing more collaborative thinking.
multiple choice is very limited.
find new ways of assessment and collaboration
most assessment is focused on M/C which is not the best way to measure learning.  Many people can answer correctly a question but don't understand the concepts.
How do we have more authentic meaningful assessment.

Coursera has peer review - graded by peers -

collaborative classrooms to get to assessment.

teachers are building ways to incorporate discussion based assessments and project
adobe connect session to have students work together on a project.
phone based assessments .
peer to peer interaction - to form smaller social networks and groups.

Megan Smith speaks about - Class on MIT called HOw to Make almost anything. - FABLAB -

movement across the world for techshop, fablab, 3-d printers, common space - movement -

Less lecture hall and more project based interaction.

portable lab devices that allow students to work together from different locations?

incorporate hands on or problem based learning into MOOC to make them more fun.

Ryan Baker , gates foundation, - studies engagement of digital technologies, by studying on and off task behavior....

Self directed learning in MOOCs - should include pacing guides - dashboard - color coding - speedometer type thing.....foreshadowing grade based on current performance. Add scaffolds into the courseware

Cognitive Tutors?


Panel - Portable Technologies and Mobile Computing

Yacob Astake - runs summer camps for STEM

gives the lecture notes as homework - flipped classroom -
then has an engaging activities in classroom.

they then can interact more with teacher than spending time taking notes.



Phone APP =

www.ActiveExplorer.com  - quests

open learning initiative at Carnegie Mellon - tutors.
http://oli.cmu.edu/


We are lacking the science behind educational technology.

educational games on mobile devices - written by Eric Hopper at MIT


http://www.worldreader.org/ is encouraging reading around the world.


www.keystosuccess.org

the best way to get teachers to keep up with technology - is to have teachers give workshops
also large corporations
through Verizon - program called infinity
difficulty is the time required to learn it.
Also

Jodie List - teacher trainer.
Show teachers a value in the technology -
VALUE - saves time -
The gate keeper (principal) needs to be open minded to change and understand the value.



 Remember the game SNake - instead of just building a snake - now you have to build a word....

BBC has some learning apps that have reached large scale.

biometric features on cell phones will be very helpful to allow multiple users to share a device.

PANEL - Gamification

Fun Theory

volkswagon fun theory contest http://www.thefuntheory.com/

candycrush is an example

badges, scoring, leader board

www.fitbit.com
pedometer
http://www.fitbit.com/

www.minecraftedu.com
digital legos 8-14
mine craft teacher! what a great idea
uses minecraft to teach chemistry. 


solvepuzzles for science  - www.foldit.com
http://fold.it/portal/
teaches protein folding
great game for origami - for B.G.
in 2011 60,000 players playing foldit solved an HIV problem that had stymied scientist for 20 years.

what areas of my life can I benefit from gamification

gamification - is a form of manipulation -

Electronic Visualization Laboratory - celebrating 40 years
computer graphics for the first star wars movie
coined term scientific visualization
CAVE
CAVE 2

Human Augmentics - what my daughter turns to much in her science text book.

20 foot canvas - fun app.

biggest star wars video game on youtube.

GAMIFICATION
1. problem solving engages multiple modalities
visual, physical, mental, auditory, social,
2. feedback is instantaneous
3. rewards are frequent.  they reward you for failure, unlike life
celebrate failure  - count down clock
4. challenges, problems, goals are presented in short episodes with controlled increase in difficulty
(boss fight)
5.no instruction manual to read
6. surprises make events memorable.
7. revolves around your schedule - save the progress and resume at anytime.  cant do that in school.

dragonbox
http://www.dragonboxapp.com/
algebra game for educators


CAL TECH CLASSROOM COLLECTION.

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/class/class.htm


TUCKER from Wilson Center
Energy -
systems of instruction are not doing as well as we need them to do based on how people learn.
only 12 percent of Americans pass a basic energy test

http://energyatthemovies.com/
PHET from Colorado for making simulations

http://phet.colorado.edu/

new technologies need to be used to change how we learn to improve the learning curve - using games - self directed learning -
with mentor, and constructive experiences with group.


policy games
budget hero.
http://budgethero.publicradio.org/widget/widget.php?refid=apm

http://www.teachbudgethero.org/


Dr. Judy Cameron - created policy game -

games can help with social issues
water use
energy use
games allow people to have experiences (cognitive science) that are different from their normal. Games can teach empathy.
Flanagan at Dartmouth teaches the same material through different techniques using non digital means.

Gender differences in gaming -

Glass Lab - transforms sim city into instructional tool.  - http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-breaks-ground-in-the-classroom


National STEM Video Game Challenge
http://stemchallenge.org/

global game jam is a big gathering for games
CDC is doing a health game jam.

don{t forget about cooperative games not just competitive games.




Panel - MAKERS
Maker Education Initiative

• young makers,
• maker corps
• maker vista
• every child a maker

Super Awesome Sylvia - show on youtube. com
http://www.youtube.com/user/SuperAwesomeSylvia
Make Magazine - central organ of makers.

Kipp Bradford

@kippworks

• Engineer Of The Future •

Rhode Island · kippworks.com

Asks questions - "where are all the makers "why aren't makers more representative of the broader make up of our community, nation.

We are the black makers.
http://black-makers.com/

Innovation Institute.

The role of mentors in communities and the correlation of the gender of the mentor and the possibility of the women going into STEM fields.

OFTEN LEFT OUT OF STEM FIELD - INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.

again with FabLab and TechShop

3-D Printing
Tactile Graphics for the blind - amazing!
viz touch

COGNIZANT - IT consulting company - 160,000 globally.

INTEREST IS A STRONGER PREDICTOR THAN PROFICIENCY


MakerFair - Circ de Solle of Science Festival

http://makerspace.nysci.org/

Cognizant Maker Faire
http://makerfaire.com/makers/cognizant/

Kids in underserved communities just need a place to go, and tinker, take things apart, and build and become makers.

MAKERS UNITE!

Why would students go into STEM FIELDS if they don't know anyone who is in a STEM field!

THING AVERSE - FOR 3-D PRINTING

http://www.thingiverse.com/

GET KIDS TO IDENTIFY AS MAKERS AND THE JARGON OF INNOVATION AND THEY CAN SEE THEMSELVES ON THE PATH TOWARDS STEM CAREER.

JOIN THE MAKER MOVEMENT!
US2020 A NEW ORGANIZATION BEING LAUNCHED.
http://us2020.org/

Note to parent - don't stereo type our daughters.

ED Dieterle - Broadening Access and Participation in STEM Education Through Personalized Learning.

believes every person deserves the chance to live a health and productive life
1. optimism
2. collaboration
3. rigor
4. innovation

if your not failing every once and a while then you aren't trying very hard

if you want to run fast run alone if you want to run far - run together.

 (annual letter online)

55,000,000 students
priority of foundation - provide acceleration in core areas for kids who are behind

what percentage of students are college ready without any remediation - 36% are academically ready!!! WHAT - 2/3 are not ready for college

Sub groups -
only 17% of low income and minority students are academically ready!

WE NEED TO ACT NOW

Broadening Access and Participation in Stem Education through Personalized Learning - Chris Dede

The future is here - it is just NOT EVENLY DISTRIBUTED!

Technologies are not born equally.

We should look for technologies that are born into the digital ecosystem but they are instrumented and look at the log files and digital artifacts and use that info to inform the system, give real time feedback to the learner and adults in the person's life.

ONE True Adaptive Learning at this time

DREAM BOX. http://www.dreambox.com/

schools@dreambox

need dream box for infants - pre kindergartner

math video game - on dream box for kindergarten.


value = benefit divided by cost

tricirular - implementation, impact, cost

impact studies -

What is the value of learning innovation?
1. what is the impact on learning
2. what are the essential implementation elements
3. what does it cost

what if we could make value statements about one opportunity compared to another.
instead of saying what is the IMPACT - say no what is the VALUE!

Fund into annual markets

Stacy Childress - leads the next generation learning team.
Where does my work - fit into the market space?

only 8% of children in the US in the lowest quartile complete college?

How do we go from 95% in 8th grade say they will go to college to 8%?

Non cognitive factors?
Learning requires and college readiness requires academic tenacity.

Policy - we live in Washington DC  - 70 square miles surrounded by reality

Personal DATA is the new oil.  Could this DATA fall outside of public good into private hands?

?isn't data already being privatized?

Policy -
Proposed revision to the Common Rule - is about to be advised. NAIH is a powerful voice in the conversation.

Cultural challenges and opportunities
Three Little Pigs Kill Wolf Video
 More and more people are getting involved.


The Learning Analytics Workgroup at The Gate Foundation -

personalized learning at scale -

goal 80% of class of 2025 to graduate college ready up from 35% today.


personalized learning - means tailoring it to meet the needs of the individual but to also put the person back into the equation....they need to have contact hours.

1 MILLION LEARNING MINUTES

IN BLOOM PERSONAL PATH
A LOOK FORWARD


MUST SEE
 https://www.inbloom.org/our-vision