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HHMI Bulletin Feb 2012	Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Dan Ferber	Calling All Teachers This article focuses on preservice training -- training college students and graduates to be STEM teachers.
T.H.E. Journal December 18, 2009 David Nagel	NASA Funds Target 13 K-12 STEM Education Programs Thirteen K-12 STEM education initiatives will receive an infusion of more than $12 million through NASA's Nspires program. The programs to be funded incorporate a range of technologies, from online social networking to virtual learning to digital media.
T.H.E. Journal May 14, 2009 Ruth Reynard	Technology's Impact on Learning Outcomes: Can It Be Measured? The ongoing debate on the effectiveness of technology use for student learning outcomes still seems to have no clear answers.
National Defense March 2011 Cynthia D. Miller	National Science Foundation Supports STEM Education Of equal importance to the foundation is the support of science and engineering education, from pre-kindergarten through graduate school and beyond, with a variety of fellowships and programs specifically for teachers and students.
T.H.E. Journal January 2009 Jennifer Demski	STEM Picks Up Speed The use of authentic scenarios to teach abstract concepts such as constant velocity is helping educators spark student interest in math and science.
National Defense August 2010 Cynthia D. Miller	Classroom Perspective: Teachers Speak Out About STEM Three science, technology, mathematics and engineering teachers in different education systems talk about their efforts to attract students to these fields.
T.H.E. Journal September 2, 2009 Ruth Reynard	5 Ways We're Diminishing Learning by Assuming Face-to-Face Instruction Is Best Face-to-face instruction is often assumed to be the proven method, while other methods have yet to prove themselves. This assumption is not only misleading, but it might also be helping to diminish potential opportunities of better learning for our students.
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2011 Diekema et al.	Teaching Use of Digital Primary Sources for K-12 Settings This paper describes learning outcomes of a three-day workshop on integrating primary sources into K-12 teaching.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Michelle Withers: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist I create learning activities so students come up with their own answers. I need to figure out what questions will get them there. How can I guide them to figure it out?
T.H.E. Journal September 1, 2010 Sara Stroud	Merging IT With AT Assistive tech joins the mainstream When Apple's iPad hit shelves earlier this year, educators and educational software developers were already thinking about what it could mean for students with learning and communication impairments.
T.H.E. Journal October 7, 2009 Ruth Reynard	More Challenges with Wikis: 4 Ways To Move Students from Passive to Active Wikis are truly powerful tools to support collaboration. However, teachers are the central engager and the one who keeps the process moving forward.
Information Today September 2, 2010 Paula J. Hane	Free Collaborative Learning Tools for Science--Spotlight on Scitable Scitable is an educational website offered by Nature Education (a division of NPG) for biology and genetics educators and undergraduate students -- and it provides a free library of high quality vetted content and tools.
Geotimes October 2005 Jon L. Rau	Teaching Urban Geology From the Bottom Up Middle- and High School-level textbooks do not contain sufficient geological data to illustrate interesting problems and natural hazards that are related to local geological urban settings, thus forcing teachers to do their own research.
T.H.E. Journal October 25, 2007 Ferdig & Boyer	Can Game Development Impact Academic Achievement? Having students develop games has shown tremendous promise for motivating students, building conceptual knowledge, and improving content knowledge acquisition.
T.H.E. Journal April 2009 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	Mind the Gap The newest Speak Up survey shows a disconnect between student and educator views on learning that must be addressed.
Fast Company Mary Pilon	Using Google Glass, Elementary Students Learn How Blind People Live The larger goal, according to organizers with Classroom Champions, a nonprofit focused on connecting Olympic and Paralympic athletes with students at high-need schools, is to use Glass to increase children's empathy and goal-setting skills.
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Cathy Shufro	Richard Losick: Extolling the Teacher-Scientist Universities should encourage creative teaching, says Losick, just as they reward outstanding research.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz	NASA Grant To Fund Online Professional Development for Climate Change Education PBS Teacherline has announced it has received a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to provide professional development courses and teaching resources to encourage the teaching of climate change topics in conjunction with science, technology, engineering, and math education.
HBS Working Knowledge June 25, 2014 Michael Blanding	FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing Forget what you remember about school field trips. Harvard Business School is in its fourth year of a bold innovation that ships all first-year students on global excursions.
T.H.E. Journal February 25, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Bolstering Support for High Needs Students with Technology For teachers in the Thunder Bay (Ontario) Catholic School District, it's not a question of if they will get the chance to teach an autistic or "high-needs" student. It's a matter of when it will happen.
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Jennifer Demski	A Quicker Clicker When loaded with virtual clicker software, any device takes on the function of a student response system.
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Sara Stroud	A New Way Forward Tech-based solutions, such as tools for teaching kids how to recognize facial expressions, are giving educators a means of helping autistic students acquire basic life skills.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson	Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.
T.H.E. Journal February 18, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Making the Connections There's a real disconnect between students' 'real lives' and science. Teachers have to work to bridge that gap.
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2009 David Nagel	Science Students Benefit from Teachers' Research Experience When high school and middle school science teachers engage in extracurricular research work, their students benefit.
National Defense November 2009 Cynthia D. Miller	Institute Strives for National STEM Education Network How do we create our next generation of scientists and engineers? It takes an individual who has classroom experience, vision for the future and sheer determination to find it.
T.H.E. Journal March 1, 2010 Paul Tullis	An 'A' in Abstractions In Tucson's Catalina Foothills School District, educators and administrators have decided to go all in on 21st century skills, and in so doing have revamped every subject area from K through 12.
T.H.E. Journal March 17, 2010 Ruth Reynard	Real-Time Technology in Middle School Language Instruction Recently, I interviewed a German language middle school teacher and she shared with me her uses for Web 2.0 tools in foreign language instruction.
T.H.E. Journal February 4, 2010 Bridget McCrea	Early Intervention with Technology When reading issues began surfacing within its elementary student population in the mid-1990s, Liberty Public Schools developed an internal tutoring program to help boost those students' scores on statewide reading tests.
T.H.E. Journal January 1, 2000	Futureperspective - a Vision of Education for the 21st Century The creation and delivery of courses over the Web will be the driving force for educational change in the 21st century.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010	National Awards to Foster Science Education In May, HHMI announced $79 million of new grants to help universities strengthen undergraduate and precollege science education nationwide.
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Erico Guizzo	The Olin Experiment Can a tiny new college reinvent engineering education?
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009	Technology's Impact on Effective Teaching Strategies Much is significantly different when online tools are used in instruction simply because the contexts of learning and tools used, as well as modes of delivery, differ so greatly.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Dian Schaffhauser	Which Came First - The Technology or the Pedagogy? A new spin on an old riddle goes to the heart of a conflict between K-12 schools and the colleges of education responsible for cultivating and providing them with new teachers.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011	Evolution of the Textbook Publishers are beginning to go digital with science textbooks, pushing boundaries to give students a personalized, interactive experience.
T.H.E. Journal October 19, 2006 Randy Yerrick	Globalizing Education One Podcast at a Time Digital media has emerged as a tool of choice for offering multimodal instruction, integrating content and pedagogy, reaching diverse learners, and complementing science instruction for today's inclusive classrooms.
HBS Working Knowledge May 21, 2014 Michael Blanding	CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals Harvard Business School's new online primer on the fundamentals of business aims to translate some of the School's unique classroom teaching methods to the Web.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009	Technology + Online + Industry + Partnerships Computer Science Courses Show Steep Decline... Students to Take on Challenge to Change the World... Avermedia Announces Stimulus Promotion... etc.
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 David Smith	Understanding Nanomaterials Understanding Nanomaterials by Malkiat Johal, offers a useful overview which could easily be adapted into an undergraduate program at a final year level, or make a good foundation course for graduate students.
HBS Working Knowledge June 16, 2014 Michael Blanding	The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology With 50 million public school students in America, technology holds much potential to transform schools, says John Jong-Hyun Kim. So why isn't it happening?
T.H.E. Journal June 1, 2010 Geoffrey H. Fletcher	A Sobering Survey A look at new data on how colleges of education are using technology, courtesy of a recent Project Tomorrow survey of preservice teachers' views on technology use.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 Jeanne Erdmann	Weeklong Program Turns High School Students Toward Careers In Medicine High school students participating in the weeklong Maps in Medicine Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Over the next few days they will use the Internet, pore over x-rays and CT scans, and learn how doctors diagnose illnesses by facing a problem one well-researched step at a time.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Paul Muhlrad	Irving Epstein: Better Living Through Chemistry (Class) It will require a change in mindset for chemistry faculty if we are going to get students into chemistry because they want to be, rather than because they have to be.
Chemistry World January 23, 2013 Paula Stephan	Too many scientists? It may be hard to believe, but once there was a time when scientists (young and old), policy wonks and those in government worried about a shortage of trained individuals to conduct research.
T.H.E. Journal September 9, 2009 Jennifer Demski	Learning to Speak Math The presence of a bilingual educator is proving pivotal to the success of technology initiatives aimed at developing Spanish-speaking students' grasp of both the concepts and the language of mathematics.
Information Today May 9, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Amazon Finally Begins Work to Make Kindles ADA-Compliant On May 1, 2013, ebook giant Amazon announced new accessibility features for the Kindle reading app, making it easier than ever for blind and visually impaired customers to navigate their Kindle libraries, read and interact with their books.
T.H.E. Journal January 8, 2010 Jennifer Grayson	Virtual P.E.? NO SWEAT! Tammy Cowan still chokes up every time she tells the story of how one student's life was forever changed by enrolling in her online gym class.
Fast Company November 2010 Jeninne Lee St. John	Teach for America's Most Influential Alumni Ahead of Teach for America's 20th-anniversary alumni summit in February, a look at the influentials who have emerged from the ranks of TFA vets.