All Hands on Deck

2013 ◽  
pp. 320-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinda P. Scott ◽  
Bonne August ◽  
Costanza Eggers-Piérola
Keyword(s):  
Current Approach ◽  
Underrepresented Minorities ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Global Workforce ◽  
Hands On ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Program Challenges ◽  
Case Study Teaching ◽  
The City

The nationwide National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3) program challenges faculty, administrators, and project partners to think strategically about the creative integration of NSF-funded awards and to provide students with an interdisciplinary, cross-curriculum, technologically current approach to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum. The NSF I3 program places particular emphasis on underrepresented minorities seeking two- and four-year degrees in STEM disciplines. The focus of this chapter is on how survey data collected across STEM departments in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Technology and Design have been used to guide the City Tech I3 Project to implement case study teaching methodologies as a means for creating institutional change in STEM laboratories. The City Tech I3 Project addresses three of the national NSF I3 goals: broadening participation, integrating research and education, and developing a global workforce.

The association between physical fitness and mathematics scores in elementary schools in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Dinar Dinangsit ◽  
Tatang Muhtar ◽  
Yogi Akin
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Physical Fitness Test ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Mathematics Scores ◽  
Test Items ◽  
And Mathematics

A continual pressure within the educational system in Indonesia to focus on high levels of academic achievement is a major barrier to implementing an effective physical education curriculum in Indonesia. The conflict between the implementation of a movement based approach (MBA) and a sport based approach (SBA) presents another continuing problem. The current approach leads more to an orientation towards the acquisition of sport skills rather than the attainment of objectives of cognitive development. This study is aimed to reveal the association between the physical fitness and academic achievement of children in Sumedang, West Java. Four physical fitness test items and a specially constructed mathematics test were administered to 265 children from grades four and five. The ability of performance on the physical fitness tests to predict performance in mathematics was calculated by linear multipleregression analysis. The findings revealed that there was a significant association, although low, between the physical fitness components and mathematics achievement. Sit ups and squat jumps showed low partial correlations and the relationships for push ups and the 400 metre run were negative Limitations in the ability of the children to perform the tests were suggested as an explanation for the mixed results. It was argued that this weakness served to emphasise the importance of giving greater priority to physical education and the quality of its teaching within the school curriculum.

VII.—On a MS. List of Officers of the London Trained Bands in 1643

Archaeologia ◽  
1890 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
Harold Arthur Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Double Line ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Service Institution ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

By permission of tho Council of the Royal United Service Institution I exhibit a small MS. entitled Ensignes, Trayned Bands, and Auxiliaries, 1642. It is bound in white vellum, and at one time had strings or laces for keeping it closed. Both covers have a simple tooled and gilt double line round the edge, and in the centre a curious figure drawn in ink. It represents a sort of satyr with a tail and feet like a dragon. The front of his body is covered by an oval shield bearing the arms of the city of London in red ink. The figure holds in his hands on each side of the shield a cornucopiae, out of which rise the heads of several serpents.

scholarly journals How STEM Academy Teachers Conceptualize and Implement STEM Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Teruni Lamberg ◽  
Nicole Trzynadlowski
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Teachers ◽  
Stem Education ◽  
Teacher Interviews ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Reading Activities ◽  
Science Activities

STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education has been gaining increasing nationwide attention. While the STEM movement has ambitious goals for k-12 education, a lack of shared understanding exists of what STEM is as well as how to implement STEM in the elementary classroom. This study investigates how seven elementary teachers in three STEM academy schools conceptualize and implement STEM in their classrooms. Teacher interviews were conducted. The findings reveal that the majority of teachers believe that STEM education involves integrating STEM subject areas. STEM activities consisted of student-led research and reading activities on STEM topics. Two teachers described STEM as involving “hands-on” science activities. Teachers at each STEM academy school conceptualized and implemented STEM differently. How STEM was implemented at each school was based on how teachers interpreted STEM and the resources they had access to. The STEM coaches played a central role in supporting the elementary teachers to plan and implement lessons. Teachers relied on them for ideas to plan and teach STEM lessons. The results of this study indicate that as more schools embrace the STEM movement, a unified understanding and resources are needed to support teachers.

scholarly journals POPNEURO: RELATO DE UM PROGRAMA DE EXTENSÃO QUE BUSCA DIVULGAR E POPULARIZAR A NEUROCIÊNCIA JUNTO A ESCOLARES

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Geórgia Filipin ◽  
Francielle Dorneles Casarotto ◽  
Bruno Machado Maroneze ◽  
Pâmela B Mello-Carpes
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Redes Sociales ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Great Acceptance ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The City ◽  
Extension Program

A grande expansão de estudos relacionados à divulgação e popularização da neurociência vem ganhando um cenário mais visível recentemente, principalmente na área da educação. Contribuindo para esse crescimento foi criado um programa de extensão, denominado POPNEURO, que objetiva popularizar a neurociência, levando informações desta área de forma lúdica e dinâmica a escolares da rede pública de ensino do município de Uruguaiana-RS e à população em geral. As principais ações do programa foram realizadas em quatro escolas, com alunos entre 10 e 13 anos de idade. As atividades incluíram: (i) atividades práticas realizadas em semanas temáticas; (ii) Neuroblitzes semanais compostas por uma pequena explanação teórica de temas relacionados à neurociência, seguida de atividades práticas para a fixação do conteúdo trabalhado; (iii) criação e manutenção de uma página em rede social sobre neurociência e educação; e, (iv) cursos de formação para professores. As ações, principalmente as práticas, tiveram grande aceitação por parte dos alunos e professores participantes, atingindo o objetivo de promover a popularização da neurociência em âmbito escolar. Palavras-chave: Extensão Universitária, Divulgação Científica, Escola, Sistema Nervoso.   POPNEURO: a Report of an extension Program that seeks to disseminate and popularize neuroscience at school Abstract: The great expansion of studies related to the dissemination and popularization of neuroscience has become more visible recently, particularly in education settings. In order to contribute to the development of this initiative, an extension program called POPNEURO was created with the objective of popularizing neuroscience by providing information related to this area in a fun and dynamic way to students from public schools and to thegeneral public in the city of Uruguaiana-RS. The  actions were carried out in four schools, with students ranging from 10 to 13 years- old. The activities included: (i) practical activities that took place during thematic weeks; (ii) weekly Neuroblitzes that offered small lecture on topics related to neuroscience, followed by hands-on activities to reinforce the contents presented; (iii) the creation and maintenance of a  social network webpage on the topic of neuroscience and education; (iv) training courses for teachers. The actions related to the project, especially the practical ones, had great acceptance by students and teachers, which contributed to achieve the goal of promoting neuroscience in schools. Key-words: University Extension, Scientific Dissemination, School, Nervous System.   Relato de un Programa de Extensión que busca divulgar y popularizar la neurociencia junto a las escuelas   Resumen: En la actualidad los proyectos relacionados a la difusión y popularización de la neurociencia han tenido un crecimiento significativo, principalmente en el área de educación. Contribuyendo a este desarrollo se ha creado un programa de extensión llamado POPNEURO, cuyo objetivo es popularizar la neurociencia y fomentar el suministro de información en este ámbito de una forma lúdica y dinámica a los estudiantes de escuelas públicas de la ciudad de Uruguaiana-RS y a la población en general. Este programa se llevó a cabo en cuatro escuelas, con alumnos de 10 a 13 años de edad. Las actividades que se implementaron en el programa incluyeron: (i) actividades prácticas en semanas temáticas; (ii) neuroblitzes semanales compuestos por una pequeña explicación teórica de temas relacionados con la neurociencia, que se siguieron de actividades prácticas para el establecimiento de los contenidos de trabajo; (iii) creación y manutención de una página en redes sociales sobre la neurociencia y la educación; y (iv) los cursos de formación para docentes. Las acciones, especialmente las prácticas, tuvieron gran aceptación por parte de los alumnos y profesores participantes, alcanzando el objetivo de promover la popularización de la neurociencia en las escuelas participantes. Palabras-clave: Extensión universitaria; Comunicación de la ciencia; Escuela; Sistema nervioso.  

scholarly journals Forum Gumeulis: Upaya Peningkatan Kompetensi Guru dalam Menulis Karya Ilmiah di Kota Tasikmalaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 418-429
Author(s):  
Caswita
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Teacher Competency ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
Teacher Professional ◽  
The City

[FORUM GUMEULIS: EFFORTS TO IMPROVE TEACHER COMPETENCE IN WRITING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IN TASIKMALAYA CITY]. The purpose of this study is to describe efforts to improve teacher competency in writing scientific papers through the activities of the Gumeulis forum in the City of Tasikmalaya, through training, guidance, mentoring and hands-on practice. The research method used is qualitative research with a type of case study. Data collection techniques through interviews, observation, and study of documentation. The results showed: (1) improvement of teacher competency in the city of Tasikmalaya in making the scientific paper more effectively carried out through teacher writing forums. (2) the development of teacher professional competence in making scientific papers through the Gumeulis forum activities shows an increase in teacher competency. (3) through the Gumeulis forum, there is mutual interaction together to learn to make Eastern Indonesia. (4), the Gumeulis Forum can create a conducive academic climate in improving teacher competency in creating scientific papers. The conclusion of the research shows that by learning together in the community will be able to improve the competence of teachers in writing scientific papers. This is because among members can discuss and learn together. Under the guidance of senior teachers in the community.

Cardano, Girolamo (1501–76)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eckhard Kessler
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Nature ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Medical Paradigm ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Almost All

The Renaissance Italian Girolamo Cardano is famous for his colourful personality, as well as for his work in medicine and mathematics, and indeed in almost all the arts and sciences. He was an eclectic philosopher, and one of the founders of the so-called new philosophy of nature developed in the sixteenth century. He used both the Aristotelian and the Neoplatonic traditions as starting points, and following the medical paradigm of organic being, he transformed the traditional Aristotelian universe into an animated universe in which, thanks to their organic functional order, all individual parts strive towards the conservation both of themselves and of the whole universe. As a result, they can be subjected to a functional analysis. In his more casual writings on moral philosophy, Cardano showed his orientation to be basically Stoic.

Incubator Platform for Multidisciplinary Innovation in Research and Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethiopia Nigussie ◽  
Liang Guang ◽  
Alexey Boyko ◽  
Antti Hakkala ◽  
Petri Sainio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
System Level ◽  
Multicultural Teams ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
Distributed Networking ◽  
Career Skills

In this article, an incubator platform concept is presented to demonstrate the authors’ approach in meeting the enormous challenges faced by future multidisciplinary research and education. The abstraction level of laboratory projects needs to be raised to a level where the researchers and students have the opportunity to deal with hands-on real-life system-level problems and decisions, while simultaneously various fundamental key technologies of the information society are integrated into the systems. Their approach is concretized by an Incubator experimental platform. Facilitated by this environment, researchers, engineers and students can join their efforts in developing next-generation products in a well-organized manner. The targeted products must meet the increasingly important special characteristics required for the digital era – self- and context-awareness, built-in information security, distributed networking, enormous scalability and device interoperability. Many projects are today developed by distributed multicultural teams, so it is a necessity that the development can also be implemented in co-operation of several universities in different countries, in order to promote the career skills of the students. The incubator platform proposed in this article is able to provide viable answers and solutions to all the mentioned challenges in engineering research and education, coupling the curriculum tightly to top-class academic research.

scholarly journals Learning Astrobiology 101 with experiments in Baja California, Mexico

2019 ◽  
Vol 200 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Roberto Vázquez ◽  
Patricia G. Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Baja California ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Educational Grant ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Spanish Speaker ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University

We present our experience teaching the subject ‘Astrobiology 101’ (“Introducción a la Astrobiología”, in Spanish), given in the University of Baja California at Ensenada, Mexico, since 2004 up to the present. The place of Astrobiology in Mexico, as well as the local academic context in Baja California are presented, as we consider that the multidisciplinary academic environment plays an important role in the motivation of our students. We describe the course itself, its materials, and resources. The course was designed based on classical books as well as news, academic papers, and internet sources. After seven editions of the course, we have noted that making practical experiments improves the understanding of concepts, ideas, and also strengths the interaction among students with different majors. This course has received support by means of an educational grant which objective is to compile all the experimental and hands-on activities in two manuals: one for students and the other for the teachers These manuals will be available to all the Spanish-speaker teachers who want to teach the full course or part of it, as well as those only interested in the hands-on activities. Locally, the establishment of the new Astrobiology Laboratory, in the Institute of Astronomy (UNAM, Campus Ensenada), surely will help us to increase the opportunities on research and education for our students, as well as visiting students and teachers.

Multidisciplinary impact – the arts join informal STEM programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Betsy Tretola ◽  
Eloise Coupey ◽  
Laurie Meamber
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stem Programs ◽  
Paired Samples ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
School Programs ◽  
The Usa ◽  
And Mathematics

Purpose Middle school participants in the USA attending an on-campus university informal science program indicate an increase in interest toward careers and disciplines in STEM or STEAM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the arts). Parents or guardians confirm the change. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Participants attended “inquiry-based” lectures by scientists and “hands-on” activities conducted by volunteers on campus at a public university over four months, four Saturdays. Participants completed surveys before each lecture and guardians completed surveys afterwards. Findings Interest increased significantly according to paired samples t-tests for each STEM discipline for students who reported low interest on the initial pre-lecture survey. There was a significant linear improvement in interests in engineering using a repeated measures general linear model. Guardians or parents reported that they observed a higher interest in STEM disciplines resulting in more technical-related interaction among peers and within the family. Social implications Findings support STEM with arts “out-of-school” programs sponsored by museums, corporations, government, higher education and others. Inclusion of the “hands-on” activities, some with arts content, to the science and technical learning appears to spark enthusiasm. Originality/value The value is multidisciplinary. The theory of reasoned action from social psychology, sociology, along with related research in science education and the arts are synthesized. Informal extracurricular experiences sustained and improved interests in the disciplines and careers on which the formal educational career pipeline can build.

Using Fan Fiction to Bridge Students' Understanding of Science

2022 ◽  
pp. 335-354
Author(s):  
LaShay Jennings ◽  
Renee M. Moran ◽  
Blake Pierce
Keyword(s):  
Science Learning ◽  
Classroom Community ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Pedagogy And Curriculum ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Grade Classroom

The purpose of this chapter was to present current literature focused on integrating science and literacy and describe the teaching of a science unit of study that incorporated fanfiction literature in a fourth-grade classroom. Ms. Bardon's instructional techniques were focused on integrating science learning with reading and writing based within a fictional text read together as a classroom community throughout the unit of science study. The unit of study was presented alongside background literature to illustrate how such teaching is indicative of a larger movement in the educational field toward science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-based pedagogy and curriculum. The account of teaching was presented according to the close reading of the fictional text, the hands-on science activities, and the culminating student writing of a fanfiction narrative that constituted the assessment of science learning.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document